What we have here is a reissue of the only Traumasphere demo that dates back to 2001. The demo was self released in 2001 on CDr and it recently got a limited to 100 cassette tape reissue with different cover artwork. Traumasphere was a death metal band from France. After releasing their demo, they changed name to Abyssal Suffering and then Ummon...

17/04/2019

With a 4 hits drum stick countdown the holocaust begins. 'Hellbent Speedfreaks' riff and vocals come straight from Venom's classic albums like "Welcome To Hell" and "Black Metal". The bass is bad ass high which gets the groove pumpin' on my chest. The whole song is a bastard mixture of NWOBHM with punk, just as Venom! The leads are Motörhead-ish...

15/04/2019

Rabhas come from Italy and "Maelstrom" is their second full length. The album was digitally released in 2017 by the band. In 2018 Narcoleptica Prod. (Russia) and Envenomed Music (Ukraine) released it on CD. In "Maelstrom" Rabhas deliver old school death metal with a mediterranean aura. Their main influence is the old Italian death/black metal sc...

01/04/2019

God Disease's debut album entitled "Drifting Towards Inevitable Death" is a journey down in a hole and straight to the abyss of the unknown. Plain guitar noise and a monolithic riff accompanied with abyssic vocals order the listener to start 'Descending Into Abyss' indeed. The opening track brings to mind Dead Congregation. The doomy parts are m...

26/03/2019

Fleshless are no newcomers. The Czechs have been around since 1993 and they have gained a respected name in the underground. Their early works were a mixture of death metal and grindcore but over the last years they slightly changed their style to explore more melodic areas of brutal death metal. Don't get me wrong. This is not melo-death, but brut...

10/03/2019

Trauma is a San Francisco, California based thrash/heavy metal band formed back in 1981. In their "Demo I" (1982) the bass player was Cliff Burton, just before he joined Metallica in late 1982. Trauma released a full length entitled "Scratch And Scream" (1984), then "Demo 2" the same year, and after that they split up to reunite in 2013 when their...

07/03/2019

Apart from guitar player in Lust Of Decay and Atrocious Abnormality, Steve Green is the creator and owner of Comatose Music. For those unfamiliar, Comatose Music is one of the most devoted to brutal death metal American labels since 2001. Prion is a brutal death metal trio from Argentina. They are in the label's roster for more than a decade and th...

25/02/2019

Heidra come from the beautiful Denmark. They play folk/viking metal with black/melodic death and power metal touches and this is their 2nd full length album. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered at Kick Recording Studio in Rome (Italy) in 2017. Marco Mastrobuono (Coffin Birth, Hour Of Penance) did an excellent job recording mixing and masteri...

21/02/2019

Spanning more than a decade in the Brazilian thrash/heavy scene, Tormentor Bestial released their 3rd full length album "Supplicium Plus Quam Bestia". If my Latin language knowledge serves me well the title means "Executed More Than A Beast". Tormentor Bestial follow closely the steps of the 90's sound of Anthrax under the exception they add in...

13/02/2019

I have to admit Switzerland had always gotten a special place in my heart for its metal music! Be it the sheer cruelty and barbarity of Hellhammer, the mightyness of Celtic Frost, the etherial aura of Triptykon. The tech/thrash progressiveness of bands like Coroner and Messiah, the death metal butchery of Sickening Gore or newer bands like Bolzer o...

08/02/2019

On their debut release entitled "The Serpent Insignia", Coffin Birth's harvest is 10 songs paying tribute to the old school swedish death metal sound with a fierce rock 'n' roll attitude and supportive production. Coffin Birth may be a new band, its members though are by no means newcomers in the Italian and Maltese extreme metal scenes. The ban...

04/02/2019

From Singapore comes the storm! Devouror's debut EP is an absolutely MUST LISTEN EP! Aesthetically, the cover turned me back to the Moyen classics. Devouror are not newcomers. This 5 piece is Shyaithan on guitars (Impiety), Antichristo Xul on vocals (Infernal Execrator), Asura on guitar (Deus Ex Machina), Cryptor (Ex-Demisor) on bass and Dizazter o...

24/01/2019