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…
The Whispering Darkness
Tales From The Underground
The Whispering Darkness
Tales From The Underground
Misery Index / Mumakil – Ruling Class Cancelled [Split EP]
Artist: Misery Index / Mumakil Country: USA / Switzerland Label: Power-It-Up Records Formats: Split 7″ EP / Split CD Year: 2008 Misery Index seems to have a very nice and productive year, 2007 have brought them several releases and a…
Nunslaughter / Destructor – Nunslaughter / Destructor [Split 7″ EP]
Artist: Nunslaughter / Destructor Country: USA Label: Hells Headbangers Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2007 The old school death metallers of Nunslaugther are slowly going to end up like Japanese Unholy Grave or Sabbat and Belgian Agathocles in terms…
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,…
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…
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……
Machetazo / Total Fucking Destruction – Slimewave Edition One Of Six [Split EP]
Artist: Machetazo / Total Fucking Destruction Country: Spain / USA Label: Relapse Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2007 This is the first edition of the Slimewave Series, it’s a bit like a McDonalds concept, but if you collect all six…
Abiku – Location
Artist: Abiku Country: USA Label: Automation Records Formats: CD Year: 2007 I remember hearing Abiku for the first time somewhere around this time last year, it was the split 7” EP with Myles Of Destruction from the end of 2004.…
Inquisition – Anxious Death / Forever Under [Compilation]
Artist: Inquisition Country: Colombia / USA Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions Formats: CD Year: 2006 American based Colombian black metal band came a long way. From zero to a considerable cult status. 2007 should be the year of a new…
Terrorizer – Darker Days Ahead
Artist: TerrorizerCountry: USALabel: Century MediaFormats: CD / LPYear: 2006 For all the well-known reasons it took Terrorizer 17 (!!) years to come-up with a follow-up of one of the most influential albums in grindcore history, “World Downfall” from 1989. And…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Grip Inc. – “We give full emotional touch and intensity to this music”
Waldemar Sorychta called me a little late because he was doing “tons of interviews” because of the new Grip Inc. album that was released about a month ago. And while talking to one of the nicest chatpartners I ever had…
Superchrist – “My brother dated Kirk Hammett a few times”
Some time ago I got surprised by the two CDs of Superchrist I heard. Was it Motörhead or was it actually a goddamn great rock and roll band in the same vein. It was actually Superchrist, I’m still spinning the…
Black Funeral – Az-i-Dahak
Artist: Black FuneralCountry: USALabel: Behemoth Productions / Perverted TasteFormats: LP / CDYear: 2004 Every black metal purist should have at least heard about Black Funeral – at least, that’s my opinion. One of the pioneers of the Satanic metal invasion…
Superchrist – South Of Hell
Artist: Superchrist Country: USA Label: Autopsy Kitchen Records / Black Planet Formats: CDr Year: 2004 Some time ago I reviewed the previous out put by this bunch of American rockers called Superchrist. I wondered why no label picked them up…
Superchrist – Back & Black
Artist: Superchrist Country: USA Label: Black Planet Formats: CDr Year: 2003 After a couple of demos Superchrist released their first full-length CD in 2002 but I missed all of them, so this 2003 “Back & Black” is the first acquaintance…
Torrent – Between The Stones [EP]
Artist: TorrentCountry: Germany / USALabel: No Colours RecordsFormats: 12″ EP / CD EPYear: 2004 Torrent is a rather new band on No Colours Records and is a side-project of both Akhenaten (Judas Iscariot) and Kanwulf (Nargaroth), on these recordings they are…
Agathocles / Godstomper – Split 7″ EP
Artist: Agathocles / Godstomper Country: Belgium / USA Label: Haunted Hotel Records Formats: Split 7″ EP Year: 2002 Last year a few split 7″-es with Agathocles featured on one of the sides have been released. One of those EP’s is…
Cannibal Corpse – 15 Year Killing Spree [Compilation]
Artist: Cannibal Corpse Country: USA Label: Metal Blade Records Formats: CD/DVD Boxset Year: 2003 It was in the late 80’s when Deathmetal was the most active genre in the metalscene. Bands that pushed the boundaries of brutality, aggression and speed…
Leviathan / Iuvenus – Live In Eternal Sin / The Speed Of Darkness [Split]
Artist: Leviathan / Iuvenus Country: USA / Poland Label: No Colours Records Formats: Split CD Year: 2003 Wintertime, hmmm, that means blackmetal for me. And to be precise, the raw kind of blackmetal. When it’s getting colder and darker outside…
Exhumed – “Things are rotting away pretty well”
Well, some bands don’t need an introduction anymore. Exhumed is one of them. They just’ve released a new album “Anatomy Is Destiny”, a revolting good album. Things have changed since that time, so it was time for a update with…
Fuck… I’m Dead / Engorged – Split CD
Artist: Fuck… I’m Dead / Engorged Country: Australia / USA Label: No Escape Records Formats: Split CD Year: 2002 Terror grind! Two extreme death grind bands share this CD. Fuck… I’m Dead from Australia and Engorged from the US. Together…
Mortician – Darkest Day Of Horror
Artist: Mortician Country: USA Label: Relapse Records Formats: CD Year: 2003 You have brute, more brutal and most brutal. And Mortician doesn’t really even fit into the latter category. Mortician is therefore a band that is hardly unknown to any…
Master – Unreleased Album 1985
Artist: Master Country: USA Label: From Beyond Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2003 When you talk about pure death metal cult, you are talking about Possessed and Master. Master was founded in 1983 by Paul Speckmann, a legendary figure…
Nuclear Assault – Alive Again
Artist: Nuclear Assault Country: USA Label: Steamhammer / SPV Formats: CD Year: 2003 Well, do I even need to introduce Nuclear Assault? This New York thrash band has made its mark in the metal world in the past. The band…
Necrophagia – The Divine Art Of Torture
Artist: Necrophagia Country: USA Label: Season Of Mist Formats: CD Year: 2003 Well, what should I tell you about Necrophagia? This band should need no introduction, the band has already more than earned its stripes in the metal world, led…
Eat My Fuk – Wet Slit & A Bottle Of Whiskey
Artist: Eat My Fuk Country: USA Label: Bestial Onslaught Productions / From Beyond Productions Formats: LP / CD Year: 2003 With ‘Wet Slit & A Bottle Of Whiskey’, the band Eat My Fuk delivers an incredibly dirty mess of stinking,…