Reviews written by: necrogool

Reviews

Celtic Frost - Monotheist

This reviewer being known to highlight the fact when an album would have been better off as an EP, here am I to review an opus for the whole metal world, that is Monotheist by the legendary CELTIC FROST who after 15 years of absence, still know the game of the word “ground-breaking” as they present us with an album so good that one wishes it lasts...

26/02/2009

Aborym - Generator

Past the aptly titled opener Armageddon, which immediately makes one realise it is indeed a different world he is now wandering in, an ominous Charles Manson addresses one’s welcome to this 4th full length by Italian/Norwegian act ABORYM, Generator. Reknowned for their electronica meets the best of the coldest Northern black metal sonorities, thes...

26/02/2009

Misery Index - Discordia

Ranking past members of DYING FETUS, I must say to have always considered MISERY INDEX to have taken the hardcore edge of FETUS a bit further, and Discordia is no exception. Having seen both FETUS & MISERY INDEX live, I must say that both manage to get a crowd going, yet what characterizes INDEX is that they seem to convey a more street mob fee...

26/02/2009

Septic Flesh - Communion

Sporting a Salvador Dali moustache and sunglasses in a hell-scorching Greece are only but two of the ambivalences the media of the Dreamlord cloth themselves in to bewilder us mere mortals within their Chaos Realm! Communion being their reunion comeback album, it picks up where Sumerian Daemons left. As in where Sumerian Daemons borrowed from mo...

26/02/2009

Uziel - Long Perished Rebels

When the heck was this EP released, in the late 80s? That was my first reaction on hearing this follow-up from these Polish youngsters who return after a 2 year absence since their debut. Not that I am saying this in any negative way, but on the contrary, as the sound bears a signature tone that neither bands like VENOM on their latest releases hav...

26/02/2009

Roadside Burial / Corpsickled - Split

Hmmm…. “Where and how should I start this review?” I have repeatedly asked myself each time I have put this on, each time hoping to hear something appealing. Yet to date I am still untouched, with an opinion that increasingly leans to seek these tunes on offer only if among friends in a drunk situation, like at a home party or at a Sunday afternoon...

26/02/2009

Marc Rizzo - The Ultimate Devotion

A short but sweet flamenco part serenades our entry to Marc Rizzo’s 2nd Shrapnel Records LP “The Ultimate Devotion” and its opening title track before bursting into a thrash attack of no remorse, with plenty of shred guitar and plectrum picking above the 12th fret that balance themselves throughout the song’s entirety with the briefly visiting Lati...

26/02/2009

Moonspell - Memorial

It is just black shrubs over a red background, yet in its simplicity, the cover of Memorial alone holds a delicate element of mysticism that not only catches the eye, but subtly serves to strongly infer a wanting urge to discover what dwells within. On thus doing by giving the CD a couple of turns, there is only one word that caps the multitude of...

26/02/2009

Moonspell - Night Eternal

Idiom goes that one should never change a winning formula, and having found their pennies with the previous Memorial, MOONSPELL on Night Eternal are doing just that, enjoying dinner with a “best of” from their now long-serving career playing off a jukebox in the background. Such is Night Eternal – nothing MOONSPELL has not attempted before, yet onc...

26/02/2009

Keep Of Kalessin - Armada

From another team of Norsemen who think that the metal world circles around them, at least with this being their 5th release and deemed in their bio to “be a huge epic masterpiece which will be a massive blow to the worldwide metal scene.” with “….every song on the album is said to bring goosebumps from top to toe!”, I expected better. So someone p...

26/02/2009

C-187 - Collision

Surprised is how best I can describe myself on listening to the new/nu sound coming from this C-187 “supergroup”. That due as if I had to opine about this work that welcomes back Patrick Mameli (mastermind of one of my all time fave bands PESTILENCE) along fellow prog-death backline Mr. Choy (ATHEIST, PESTILENCE, CYNIC) & Mr. Reinhert (CYNIC, D...

26/02/2009

Vermin - A Nihilistic Swarm

17 Tracks of technical prowess is what one gets from up & rising Dutch squad VERMIN, not to be confused by the Swedish deathsters bearing the same monicker. But talking of Sweden, the most notable thing on this slab is the fascination these guys have with the Swedish sound, both when delving into old school death metal influenced riffs (their...

26/02/2009