Façade is a Dutch doom/death metal band formed in 2011. The death metal elements in their sound can mostly be spotted out on Ben de Graaff's vocals which are influenced by the early 90's doom/death metal singing and bands like (early) Paradise Lost. "The Eternal Dance" is Façade's second full length album after "Loathe" (2017). A split with Locus A...

18/11/2019

Straight from Montreal, Canada, the speed/thrash maniacs Warsenal present their second full length album after "Barn Burner" (2015). The power trio gives us a lethal dose of a sweet crossover/speed/thrash metal based on (early) Megadeth and Metallica (only "Kill em All" era) with additional influences by the titanic forces of thrash like Razor, Vo...

14/11/2019

Cataclysmically massive, dynamically oppressive and of pure despair death metal is what you get from Evulse in their first demo. Evulse deliver straight from the catacombs abysmal and din metal of death in the name of the underground. Early Entombed and the mighty Swedish death metal scene plus some old Dutch/Spanish death metal details are present...

13/11/2019

It's the last day of October and today it is a raining day in Athens, Greece. I wake up in the morning under the sound of heavy rain. The Athenian sky has turned gray/black from early in the morning. Rain is drumming outside the windows. I feel a sense of doom. I feel the Birmingham blackness and bleakness of the sad sky under which Black Sabbath g...

12/11/2019

Bearing its roots in the 80's, deathcore was introduced to the extreme metal in the late 90's as a fusion genre of death metal, metalcore and hardcore/punk. The French band Empyreal Vault in their debut album take deathcore a bit further by adding technical elements and electronic/studio effects in their sound to create a horrifying and evocative a...

07/11/2019

Do you like death metal? Do you like your death metal to be modern yet always remembering to pay homage to the great ones that came before, most still around? If so, then boy or girl do I have a band for you. Introducing, if you haven't heard of them already, Haissem and their new album "Demonotone." That's right, I said Haissem's new album "Demono...

30/10/2019

Hudič is a Belgian melodic black/death metal band and "Ne Ergo Dimittas" is their debut EP. Hudič is Slovenian for "The devil". The intro of the EP is of epic/soundtrack aesthetics with repetitive themes on the synths to set the mood right for what's to come. The final piano notes of the intro glue it with the opening track 'Dante'. Pre-recorded...

17/10/2019

Viölence is a one-man band from the Aussie lands. Australia has given the metal world many original bands through the years and it seems like there is always something special and interestingly primitive in the way the Aussie bands face metal music. "MotorDemon" is Viölence's debut EP from 2018. From the "umlaut" in both their logo and EP title, I...

16/10/2019

Eternal Breath is a heavy/thrash/melodic power metal band from Belgium. "World Of Chaos" is their second full length album and is released from Sliptrick Records 3 years after their self-released debut album "The Joker". "World Of Chaos" was recorded, produced and mixed during the second half of 2018 in Shellshock Studio (Knokke, Belgium). The thic...

15/10/2019

Ectoplasma is an uprising underground death metal band from Greece. Keeping the old school vibe of pulsating and primitive death metal of the 90's, they successfully bring it to present. Their music is a pile of mud, rotteness, filth and disgust thrown straight into your face. Although they hate polished productions, their sound is so massive that...

14/10/2019

Cumbeast is a groovy brutal death/grind band from Turku, Finland. They were formed in 2005 and they definetly are hard workers. "Gore Zoo" is already their 6th full length album! Their first 4 albums were released from the Spanish Pathologically Explicit Recordings while "Gore Zoo" and its predecessor are issued from Rotten Roll Rex. But let's g...

02/10/2019

I am always very nostalgic when it comes to the 80's. Probably because this was the decade when I was a little kid and everything was fresh and new. The memories I have from the 80's are really big. One of them is the videocassette tapes (aka VHS). VHS was the only way to watch a movie in your video player at home exactly when you wanted to. (The G...

23/09/2019