Here we have a split CD between two oldschool metal bands from Poland - Betrayer and Neolith. Both of them are included with one song. First are Betrayer with "'Beware'. The band exists since 1989 but for there is only one full-length album called "Calamity" that was released in 1994. Betrayer offer typical death/thrash metal sound influenced by...

07/10/2014

Bloodsoaked is the one-man band of Peter Hasselbrack, x-member of the bands Archaic Winter and Dislok. "Religious Apocalypse" is his new offering after three full-length albums. I read on the web that Peter's initial idea for this EP was to record only glam rock classic in death metal version. For some reason this is not the case and what we have h...

07/10/2014

I remember the debut album "Hateful Attitude" of the Italians Mind Snare from year 2000. It was a solid slab of old school death metal that I really enjoyed. Seems like the band had some problems in the past because "Ancient Cult Supremacy" is their first release with new material since the split record with Worstenemy from 2005. The guitar player...

07/10/2014

Reciprocal is a technical death metal band from Hollywood, California and "New Order Of The Ages" is their second album after the debut CD "Reciprocal" from 2013. Reciprocal's line-up includes the extraordinary bass player Jeff Hughell who has been part of groups like Brain Drill and Rings Of Saturn and is now holding the bass duty in none other bu...

20/08/2014

After the release of their debut album "Absolutely Anti-Human Behaviour" in 2012 via the label Old Temple, the Polish death metal squad Embrional presents to the world the re-release of their 2007 demo "Annihilation". Besides the original six tracks, there are also eight live songs as a bonus tracks. If you haven't listened anything from Embrional...

20/08/2014

Two years ago,the Austrian gore/grind freaks Vaginal Penetration Of An Amelus With A Musty Carrot (don't you just love that name) played in my hometown Ruse. Their vocalist Lukas Haszar blew my ears away with his hilarious froggy grunts and I have never witnessed something like this before in my life. And he didn't use any effects! This band has re...

28/07/2014

I remember the first time when I heard "Phases Of Dimensional Torture", the debut album of Turkey's brutal death metallers Decaying Purity. I was impressed by their pretty brutal sound influenced by names such as Broken Hope, Deeds Of Flesh, Disavowed, Disgorge etc. Together with Cenotaph, this band was the heaviest Turkish band that I have ever co...

27/07/2014

Tasmania's own Separatist started as a five piece band back in 2003 and in 2008 their full-length debut "The Motionless Apocalypse" was released via the small Malaysian label Reverb Productions. Different reasons led to the band's demise in the same year but in 2014 Separatist's vocalist Sam Dishington decided to start it all again but this time as...

23/04/2014

Among all the Exhumations out there,this one originates from Indonesia and consists of three guys - Gregorius on bass,Yoga on guitars and Punto behind the mike. "Hymn To Your God" is their debut album, originally released independantly in 2012 and re-released by the German label Dunkelheit Produktionen in 2014. In this album you will find seven tra...

23/04/2014

In their debut full-length album "Torturer", the Swedes from Sordid Flesh offer us one simple thing - pure oldschool worship. The opening track 'The Thelema Way' waves proudly the bloodstained flag of Venom, Hellhammer and early Sodom. "Torturer" is a venomous mix of oldschool death, black and thrash metal with raw and dirty sound. 'Mark Of The Fal...

12/03/2014

Exhale is a Swedish grindcore/death metal band and "When Worlds Collide" is their third full-length album as well as their debut for the well known label Pulverised Records. Despite the fast and furious playing, Exhale's tracks are unusually long for a grindcore band, most of them being between two and three minutes. "When Worlds Collide" is an...

12/03/2014

I have a question for you: do you miss the sheer brutality and the raw sound of the first three Cannibal Corpse albums? If the answer is yes, then you definitely should check out Concrete from Shumen, Bulgaria. Among all the other band with the same name, this particular Concrete plays the heaviest music. Zhivko Stoyanov (bass), Kalin Kolev (vocals...

13/12/2013