Burst – Origo
Artist: Burst Country: USA Label: Relapse Records Formats: CD Year: 2005 Burst has always been a band worth mentioning, even if you don’t like them, always going their own way. Their last album “Prey On Life” was a bit of…
The Whispering Darkness
Tales From The Underground
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Tales From The Underground
Alchemist – Embryonics 90 – 98 [Compilation]
Artist: AlchemistCountry: AustraliaLabel: Relapse RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2006 This might be the most dull-sounding name for a band ever, yet Alchemist is one of the longest running bands from downunder and are gaining little by little the recognition they – are…
Ceremonial Execution – Black God Rising [EP]
Artist: Ceremonial ExecutionCountry: SwedenLabel: Blood HarvestFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2006 Before I read Blood Harvest was going to release this 7” EP I never heard of this Swedish band called Ceremonial Execution, so I didn’t know what to expect. Well, I…
Embalming Theatre – Sweet Chainsaw Melodies [Reissue]
Artist: Embalming TheatreCountry: SwitzerlandLabel: Power-It-UpFormats: CDYear: 2006 What we’ve got here is a re-release for Embalming Theatre’s second album “Sweet Chainsaw Melodies” from 2003 which was originally released by top-notch always-on-top Razorback Records (the vinyl version was put out by…
Cock And Ball Torture – A Cacophonous Collection [Compilation]
Artist: Cock And Ball Torture Country: Germany Label: Obliteration Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 The reason for the release of this boxset is unknown to me, but it has got something to offer, especially for the newer fans who got…
Arckanum – Trulen
Artist: ArckanumCountry: SwedenLabel: Carnal RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2006 After the recent release of Arckanum’s “The 11 Year Anniversary Album” it is time for more retro-releasing for one of Sweden’s best kept black secrets. This time it is Arckanum’s 1994 demo “Trulen”-demo tape put on a silver…
Sanitys Dawn – The EP Years + Live Audio Terror [Compilation]
Artist: Sanitys Dawn Country: Germany Label: Power-It-Up Records Formats: CD Year: 2006 Sanitys Dawn is one of Germany’s leading grind/death metal acts since their foundation somewhere at the early nineties. They have been spawning the scene with quite some interesting…
Indesinence – Noctambulism
Artist: Indesinence Country: United Kingdom Label: Goat Of Mendes Formats: CD Year: 2006 As their “Ecstatic Lethargy” demo from 2003 and 2006’s EP “Neptunian” already promised, Indesinence would come up with an astonishing debut album. Yet they surprised me with…
Disgorge – Live Germany
Artist: DisgorgeCountry: MexicoLabel: Obliteration RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2006 Let’s get first clear that this is the Mexican death metal/grindcore band and not one of the other 666 bands with the same name from whatever corner of the world. And what we…
Permafrost – Pervers & Geisteskrank
Artist: Permafrost Country: Germany Label: Christhunt Productions Formats: CD Year: 2006 I am unable to give you a proper introduction about this German Permafrost, as I just can’t seem to find any decent information and I was not aware of…
Indesinence – Neptunian [EP]
Artist: Indesinence Country: United Kingdom Label: Weird Truth Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2006 Just before releasing their debut album the English doomsters of Indesinence released an EP through the Japanese Weird Truth Productions label to save some extra recordings…
Agathocles / Bloodred Bacteria – Retardation / Spiced With Elektrokill [Split 7″ EP]
Artist: Agathocles / Bloodred Bacteria Country: Belgium / Germany Label: Crimes Against Humanity Records / First Blood Family / Raw Noise Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2003 This split 7″ has got some strange story to it, it has…
Pantheïst – The Pains Of Sleep [EP]
Artist: Pantheïst Country: United Kingdom Label: Serpent’s Lair Productions Formats: CD EP Year: 2005 Just after the release of the well received Amartia at the end of the summer of 2005 Pantheist returns with an EP with the well-fitting name…
Superchrist – “It’s inspiring, in the way that Diamond Head once gave me an air guitar”
Since my last chat with Chris Black of Superchrist a lot has changed again, and therefore we agrees to do a small update-interview on the things that happened. In the mean time a ‘real’ CD has been released (the live…
Nominon – “With vinyl, it’s like the old days”
In the last few months I ‘discovered’ quite some interesting bands, one of the best will definitely be Nominon. I saw their name come by quite some times already, but I never came to the point of actually listening to…
Mortician – Re-Animated Dead Flesh
Artist: Mortician Country: USA Label: Mortician Records Formats: CD Year: 2004 It might be a little late, but when I got this CD in the mail the other day I thought it still deserved a review at our beloved magazine.…
Nominon – Recremation
Artist: Nominon Country: Sweden Label: Blood Harvest / Deathgasm Records / Konqueror Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2005 Recremation? That means that you will be set on fire twice when you are dead, to be sure you are more…
Negură Bunget – Inarborat Kosmos [EP]
Artist: Negură Bunget Country: Romania Label: Code666 Formats: CD EP Year: 2005 One of the better things that has happend over the last few years when it comes to black metal will definitely be the signing of Negura Bunget to…
Deep Vein / Bloody Sign / Oppression – Split Tape
Artist: Deep Vein / Bloody Sign / OppressionCountry: France / France / SwedenLabel: Nihilistic HolocaustFormats: Split cassette tapeYear: 2004 Another tape from the Nihilistic Holocaust label, an old school label that is specialized in releasing old fashioned tape releases. Can…
Beyond Belief – “I am a very spiritual person”
It was only recently that the Dutch doom/death band Beyond Belief saw its second coming, somewhere in 2004 the band reunited and presented two new members in its line-up. This was not the only thing that has changed in the…
Necrovation – “Groupies, where the hell are ya?”
When it comes to old school death metal from Sweden one of the nicest new bands will definitely be Necrovation, a young band that has the same kind of attitude like the ancestors of the infamous Swedish death metal bands…
Barbatos – Fury and Fear, Flesh and Bone
Artist: BarbatosCountry: JapanLabel: Agonia RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2005 Remind yourself, when was the last time you bought an album and noticed on the band pictures in the booklet (or the inlay in the case it was a vinyl record, which is…
Avulsed – Gorespattered Suicide
Artist: Avulsed Country: Spain Label: Metal Age Productions Formats: CD Year: 2005 Avulsed is to me one of the best examples of a band that started out rather slow but surely got themselves a status within the death metal world,…
Mütiilation – Rattenkönig
Artist: Mütiilation Country: France Label: End All Life Productions / Ordealis Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2005 Mütiilation is one of those elite bands from the healty French Black Metal scene. A scene that gets more attention with every…
Nocturnal – “It’s good to see that there are more maniacs paying more attention to thrash metal again!”
I can’t say it more often… Old school thrash metal is gainig popularity again. Nocturnal from Germany is probably the best available evidence for this backward progress (underlining the word progress). They have been spawning the underground with many demo’s,…
Arckanum – The 11 Year Anniversary Album [Compilation]
Artist: ArckanumCountry: SwedenLabel: Carnal RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2004 Arckanum shouldn’t be a new name for any of the Black Metal fans around the globe. This Swedish act is around for many, many years now. Seeing the title of this record, I guess the band is around…
Varathron – “The reign of the crow, the reign of darkness, the reign of Satan!”
It took the band seven goddamn years to come back with a new album, and now its out I can’t conclude anything else than that it is an album to be proud of. An album, that is rather different than…
Ulfsdalir – ...Auf Einer Wanderung [EP]
Artist: UlfsdalirCountry: GermanyLabel: Christhunt ProductionsFormats: CD EPYear: 2005 Here it is already. The next Ulfsdalir release, it wasn’t so long ago since I reviewed its last album “Christenhass” (for which I also published an interview). This time it is a…
Anal Vomit – “Explicit Satanism is our mandatory”
Lately From Beyond Productions spawned a whole lot of old school metal records, such as Nocturnal, Utuk-Xul, Cianade and Anal Vomit. I took the opportunity to ask Anal Vomit’s guitarist Noizer a few questions concerning the band, the new album…
Karelian Warcry – Kylmä Rautainen
Artist: Karelian Warcry Country: Finland Label: Self-Released Formats: CD Year: 2005 Somewhere last year I already reviewed the first demo of the Finnish band Karelian Warcry. A demo that managed to impress me by the quality of the songs because…
Discard / Agathocles – The Core Of Resistance [Split Tape]
Artist: Discard / Agathocles Country: Belgium Label: Agnostic Record Formats: Split Tape Year: 2004 Yet another Agathocles release, this time on tape – yeah, they are still being released every once in a while. It was released through a little…
Nocturnal – The Burning Of Randstadt
Artist: Nocturnal Country: Germany Label: Deathstrike Records Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2004 Not so long ago I reviewed the first album of the German thrashers Nocturnal. A band that I’ve been watching for some time now and certainly a band…
Nocturnal Vomit – Infernal Ascension Of The Gods [Demo]
Artist: Nocturnal Vomit Country: Greece Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2003 Nocturnal Vomit is some kind of a strange band. I’m not entirely sure, but the band is said to have its roots in Australia, where it was founded…
Ulfsdalir – “I am really attracted strongly to heathendom”
After a few interesting releases I think it was time to get a few things cleared from the man behind this band, R.U.. With this band he released quite a few releases (in a reasonable short period) that were able to…
Legion Of Sadism – Auf Gedeih Und Verderb
Artist: Legion Of Sadism Country: Germany Label: Christhunt Productions Formats: CD Year: 2004 I never heard any music by Legion Of Sadism before I only read a review of a previous output by a colleague at Vampire-Magazine, this and some…
Fleshless – Sensual Death Immitation
Artist: Fleshless Country: Czechia Label: Obscene Productions Formats: CD Year: 2003 Forgetting the splits and the demos this is already the fourth album by the death metallers from the Czech Republic. I heard quite some songs over the years but…
Camulos – Spiel Des Blutes
Artist: CamulosCountry: GermanyLabel: Christhunt RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2003 For the ones who are familiar with the band know about the history. The made themselves immortal and highly infamous with their other release “Der Untermensch (Mit Namen Christ)”. The original artwork has been banned and with that…
Graveland – Dawn Of Iron Blades
Artist: Graveland Country: Poland Label: No Colours Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2004 The highly productive Polish pagan/black metal band Graveland, who release something at least once a year, now return with their latest effort titled “Dawn of Iron…
Black Altar – Black Altar
Artist: Black AltarCountry: PolandLabel: Christhunt ProductionsFormats: CDYear: 2004 Black Altar is a Polish black metal band that lives up all the standards that goes within the scene. Complete with corpse paint, weaponry, pseudonyms and blasphemed artwork. When looking at this…
Necrophagia – Goblins Be Thine [EP]
Artist: Necrophagia Country: USA Label: Displeased Records / Red Stream Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2004 Metalheads who aren’t familiar with Necrophagia … Are there any? This is a band that has an enormous historical value when you…
Nazgul – When The Wolves Return To The Forest [Re-Release]
Artist: Nazgul Country: Spain Label: Christhunt Productions Formats: CD Year: 2004 First of all I like to say that this is one of the two releases of Nazgul this year. Both CDs carry some older material that was recorded in…
Nazgul – Awaiting The Battle Ravens [Re-Release]
Artist: Nazgul Country: Spain Label: Christhunt Productions Formats: CD Year: 2004 This is the other chapter of the Nazgul 2004 releases. For more information on the band and its links in the Spanish black metal scene you’d better read the…
Master – “I have always been fascinated by the old western movies”
When I met Paul Speckmann on the Obituary tour – Master opened up for them all around Europe – we talked a bit about Master and labels and stuff. That reminded me that I wanted to interview him after the…
Necrovation – Ovations to Putrefaction [Demo]
Artist: Necrovation Country: Sweden Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2004 The red line through this demo-tape by Swedish Death Metallers is definitely the word “old school”. Everything this demo breathes is just old school, when was the last time…
Darkthrone – Sardonic Wrath
Artist: DarkthroneCountry: NorwayLabel: Moonfog ProductionsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2004 What is to be said about Darkthrone Unholy Darkthrone? I skip the introduction part of the review and go directly to the new album. Already very quick after the release of…
Acheron – “Ad Maiorem Satanae Gloriam”
What should I say to introduce Acheron? I guess everything that needs to be said has been said over a thousand times. Though, with an eye on their past three releases (all on the Greek Black Lotus Records label) and…
Rotting Christ – Sanctus Diavolos
Artist: Rotting Christ Country: Greece Label: Century Media Formats: CD Year: 2004 Well, what can I say that haven’t been said before about the master of the Greek sound? Not too much? After a while of playing doomy atmospheric metal…
Agathocles – Mincemania In Bulgaria [Compilation]
Artist: Agathocles Country: Belgium Label: Ozz Music Formats: CD Year: 2004 I’m a little running out of inspiration for writing introductions to – yet another – Agathocles release. So, if you still aren’t into these Belgian mincers, never heard about…