Darkthrone – Dark Thrones And Black Flags

Artist: DarkthroneCountry: NorwayLabel: Peaceville RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2008 After the last Darkthrone album many of their early fans dropped off, saying that this is punk and has nothing to do with metal anymore. That may be, but didn’t Darkthrone…

Agathocles – Grind Is Protest

Artist: Agathocles Country: Belgium Label: Displeased Records Formats: CD Year: 2008 Second album from these longlasting Belgians on Displeased Records, which means that Agathocles is, for the first time in their twenty-year-plus career, widely available in record stores and almost…

Frailty – Lost Lifeless Lights

Artist: Frailty Country: Latvia Label: Solitude Productions Formats: CD Year: 2008 Doom metal was always celebrated as a kind of ‘elitist’ genre, as it has always been a very small and rather narrow-minded genre. Over the years many bands have…

Bloody Sign – The 3rd Escape [EP]

Artist: Bloody SignCountry: FranceLabel: Blood HarvestFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2008 Though I always thought that these French guys of Bloody Sign weren’t the best in their genre, they still know how to get their music spread. Numerous splits and underground releases are available and are actually…

Nunslaughter – Hell On Holland [7″ EP]

Artist: Nunslaughter Country: USA Label: Autopsy Kitchen Records / Battle Kommand Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2008 This is another one from the ‘Hell On…’-series, it is rumoured that this is the last one to be released, so, finally the…

Earthride – Taming Of The Demons [Re-Release]

Artist: Earthride Country: USA Label: Doomentia Records Formats: LP Year: 2008 Once in a while a new labels stands up and dedicates itself on releasing great vinyl records only, recently one of those labels is Doomentia Records, based in the…

Obituary – Left To Die [EP]

Artist: Obituary Country: USA Label: Candlelight Records Formats: CD EP Year: 2008 Obituary’s new one is a four-track EP (not counting the video-track for ‘Evil Ways’, taken from their last album) which will most likely closes the gap between the…

The Puritan – The Black Law [EP}

Artist: The Puritan Country: Finland Label: I Hate Records Formats: 12″ EP Year: 2008 This Finnish band was quickly started after the folding of one of doom’s greatest, Reverend Bizarre. Albert Witchfinder, here under his own name, brought back his…

The Devil’s Blood – The Graveyard Shuffle [EP]

Artist: The Devil’s Blood Country: The Netherlands Label: Ván Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2008 Out of the blue, really out of the blue there was this band from Eindhoven, Holland. Not quite announced by anything or anyone, they were…

Cobalt – Landfill Breastmilk Beast [EP]

Artist: CobaltCountry: USALabel: Profound Lore RecordsFormats: CD EPYear: 2008 Last year’s “Eater Of Birds”-album was very well received by press and public alike, and was pretty much a surprise to both parties. The well crafted black metal fits well in…

Funeral Moth – Funeral Moth [EP]

Artist: Funeral Moth Country: Japan Label: Weird Truth Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2022 Already released as a two-track demo-tape, this Japanese ultra-slow funeral doom act got its first official release with this two-tracks mini CD. Though Japan is not…

God Macabre – The Winterlong [Re-Release]

Artist: God Macabre Country: Sweden Label: Blood Harvest Formats: LP Year: 2008 As with many other great Swedish death metal releases, “The Winterlong” by God Macabre was a bit overlooked at the time of its release and failed to get…

Bloodstone – Hour Of The Gate [Compilation]

Artist: BloodstoneCountry: SwedenLabel: Blood HarvestFormats: LPYear: 2008 As every death metal fan from the very first days or any vinyl collector would confirm, old school Swedish death metal is be experienced on vinyl exclusively. But, unfortunately not all great albums have been issued on the…

Magnus – Scarlet Slaughter [Re-Release]

Artist: Magnus Country: Poland Label: Blood Harvest Formats: LP Year: 2007 Sometimes you walk into something that you never heard of and surprises you in a pleasant way. This was the case when I got a package through the post…

Trinacria – Travel Now Journey Infinitely

Artist: Trinacria – Travel Now Journey InfinitelyCountry: Chile / GermanyLabel: Indie RecordingsFormats: CDYear: 2008 What do you get when you put three members of Enslaved in the same room with people from a noise band and various other projects? A…

Jex Thoth – Jex Thoth

Artist: Jex Thoth Country: USA Label: I Hate Records Formats: CD Year: 2008 Last year around the same time as the release date of this album (April 28th, 2008) I got a mini CD that left me in a state…

Necrovation – Breed Deadness Blood

Artist: Necrovation Country: Sweden Label: Blood Harvest Formats: LP / CD Year: 2008 For the true followers of the Swedish death metal scene the name of Necrovation will definitely ring a bell. The band already released a cool demo-tape, a…

Jumalhämärä – Slaughter The Messenger [EP]

Artist: Jumalhämärä Country: Finland Label: Hammer Of Hate Records Formats: LP / CD EP Year: 2007 This band with its unpronounceable name (for non-Finnish people though) from Finland has been moving through the underground pretty much unnoticed. Which is actually…

Japanische Kampfhörspiele – Rauchen Und Yoga

Artist: Japanische Kampfhörspiele Country: Germany Label: Bastardized Recordings Formats: LP / CD Year: 2007 Though this German band has one of the least inviting band names ever, they are not as bad as their name would suggest. But, that means…

Enforcer – Evil Attacker / Mistress from Hell [EP]

Artist: Enforcer Country: Sweden Label: Iron Pegasus Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2007 Enforcer from Sweden are far from an original band, in fact, they are a band that are knee-deep in the 80’s. Their old fashioned, yet fresh sounding,…

Sworn – The Alleviation

Artist: Sworn Country: Norway Label: Twilight Vertrieb Formats: CD Year: 2007 This melodic black metal band is from Norway’s second city, Bergen, a region that brought us bands like Immortal, Burzum, Gorgoroth and the famous composer Edvard Grieg. Yet, Sworn…

Malfeitor – Unio Mystica Maxima

Artist: Malfeitor Country: Italy Label: Scarlet Records Formats: CD Year: 2007 Malfeitor is the brainchild of M. Fabban who has been a member of the industrialized black metal band Aborym for many years. Aborym changed quite a bit over the…

Colosseum – Chapter 1: Delirium

Artist: ColosseumCountry: FinlandLabel: Firedoom MusicFormats: CDYear: 2007 With Colosseum Firebox seem to have returned to their heaviest roots, and that is something that I embrace with pure joy – as far doom goes hand-in-hand with such a word. Though the…

Desaster – 666: Satan’s Soldiers Syndicate

Artist: DesasterCountry: GermanyLabel: Iron Pegasus Records / Metal Blade RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2007 Though they are certainly some kind of worship/’tribute to the gods’ band, Desaster is, in the meantime, one of the longest running German thrash bands. It…

Denial – Immense Carnage Vortex [EP]

Artist: DenialCountry: MexicoLabel: Blood HarvestFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2007 This Mexican band are definitely different from the ongoing, rather crappy, grindcore scene over there. The cover of this 7” EP already shows they are digging from the old school death metal…

Bone Awl – Undying Glare [EP]

Artist: Bone AwlCountry: CanadaLabel: Nuclear War Now! ProductionsFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2007 This American band is veiled in mysticism, as there is hardly any information available on them. Yet, from the very start there has been a constant flow of releases,…

Bestial Raids – Order Of Doom [Demo / Reissue]

Artist: Bestial RaidsCountry: PolandLabel: Bird Of Ill Omen Recordings / Nuclear War Now! ProductionsFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2007 Bestial Raids from Poland are not a very exceptional band in terms of a ‘black metal career’. They have released a couple of…

Cauterizer – Then the Snow Fell… [Demo / Reissue]

Artist: CauterizerCountry: SwedenLabel: Blood HarvestFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2007 This Swedish death metal band may be long forgotten, yet Blood Harvest didn’t. And lucky us, really, as this is some of the better Swedish death metal that came to my ears. I honestly have…

Ulfsdalir – Wolfszeit

Artist: UlfsdalirCountry: GermanyLabel: Ash Nazg / Dunkelwald Productions / Heretic Wisdom ProductionsFormats: CDYear: 2007 This is already the third release of this German black metal collective in 2007. This is one is the last in a row of releases, preceded…

The Foreshadowing – Days Of Nothing

Artist: The Foreshadowing Country: Italy Label: Candlelight Records Formats: CD Year: 2007 For some reason it is usually very easy to say where a band is from, most of the times the sound or approach to a certain genre reveal…

King Diamond – Give Me Your Soul… Please

Artist: King Diamond Country: Denmark Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2007 That King Diamond is back on track is no news, albums like “Abigail II” and “The Puppet Master” were already a class on their own…

Blaspherian – Allegiance To The Will Of Damnation [EP]

Artist: BlaspherianCountry: USALabel: Blood Harvest Formats: 12″ EPYear: 2007 Though not really a well-known band (yet) they get their stuff released by labels as Hell’s Headbangers and Blood Harvest Records. That is what I call an achievement, as these two…

Impetigo – Ultimo Mondo Cannibale [Re-Release]

Artist: Impetigo Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: LP Year: 2007 There are not many bands that were as influential and amazingly infectious as Impetigo. Like Carcass, Repulsion and Napalm Death they had litterily thousands of followers, bands trying…

Ulfsdalir / Throndt – Ulfsdalir / Throndt [Split]

Artist: Ulfsdalir / ThrondtCountry: GermanyLabel: Ash NazgFormats: Split CDYear: 2007 A split CD from two bands hailing from the same scene, from the Kassel-area from which quite a lot of band/projects/labels etc. are. This is such a collaboration that definitely…

In Aeternum – Curse Of Devastation [EP]

Artist: In Aeternum Country: Sweden Label: Blood Harvest / Pulverised Records Formats: 7″ EP / CD EP Year: 2007 With varying succes Swedish band In Aeternum have spawned records on mankind, through various labels and with an ever changing line-up.…

Atlantean Kodex – The Pnakotic Demos

Artist: Atlantean Kodex Country: Germany Label: New Iron Age Records Formats: CD Year: 2007 Just after the split 12” with Vestal Claret (on Metal Coven Records, earlier in 2007) German epic metallers Atlantean Kodex comes up with something they decided…

Decaying Form – Chronicles Of Decimation

Artist: Decaying FormCountry: USALabel: Dan’s Crypt RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2006 This Australian trio, though recorded as a duo, comes up with their debut album through Spanish underground label Dan’s Crypt Records and shows exactly the down side of modern recording techniques……

Agathocles – Theatric Symbolisation Of Life [Re-Release]

Artist: Agathocles Country: Belgium Label: Displeased Records Formats: CD Year: 2007 Agathocles is probably most known for its huge amount of releases, and holds the record alongside acts as Nunslaughter, Unholy Grave, Sabbat. Though Agathocles’ primitive sound is easy to…

Isole – Forevermore [Re-Release]

Artist: Isole Country: Sweden Label: I Hate Records Formats: CD Year: 2007 This is the re-release of Isole’s debut record, originally released back in early 2005. In fact, the original release never really got out of sight as I kept…

Inhume – Chaos Dissection Order

Artist: Inhume Country: The Netherlands Label: Osmose Productions Formats: CD Year: 2007 After a wait of over one year and a half, Inhume’s third album finally sees the light of day. To give you an indication, I first heard this…

Death Attack – Death Attack [Demo / Reissue]

Artist: Death AttackCountry: GermanyLabel: I Hate RecordsFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2007 This is a band that is dead for about a good twenty years now, but still is something that is worth digging up if you’re into old school metal. This…

Thanatos – Thanatos Boxed Set [Boxed Set]

Artist: ThanatosCountry: The NetherlandsLabel: Areadeath ProductionsFormats: CD BoxsetYear: 2007 Thanatos is one of the oldest still active (death) metal bands from The Netherlands and therefore has got a rather rich history. This boxed set is a fine lesson in history…