Author Jamie
In 1994, Germany’s M.B.R. Records (the label which spawned God Macabre’s impossible-to-find debut) unleashed Insanity’s ‘Death After Death’. For this US death metal band, such a mid-nineties release for their first album was both a blessing and a curse. From… Continue Reading →
In the mid-nineties, when death metal was as popular as Cradle Of Filth is now, I discovered an album. Not just any album, but a second-hand copy of Autopsy’s ‘Mental Funeral’. On my descent into the obscure world of death… Continue Reading →
This was one of those gigs that I was leaving as a last minute decision whether to go or not. Picking up ‘Utilitarian’ belatedly a few weeks back drew me towards going to see Napalm Death, while a week of… Continue Reading →
It came as a surprise to me to read some of the lukewarm reviews to Autopsy’s 2011 comeback album, ‘Macabre Eternal’. Although easy to understand both how and why fans would have such unrealistically high expectations, personally, I was blown… Continue Reading →
Although the name may seem a bit strange or personal for a death metal album, it spells out precisely what this band is. In fact it’s more representative than their previous moniker of Flesh, under which it operated from 2004-09,… Continue Reading →
Weather predictions for the second day spoke of rain, and indeed where I live there certainly had been some, along with an all out storm. Travelling the thirty or so kilometres to the venue, it came as somewhat of a… Continue Reading →
After last year’s Sonisphere debacle, which destroyed the UK edition and greatly impacted on the dynamic of this French one too, I wouldn’t have been surprised if that had been the end of it for Amnéville. Thankfully I was wrong…. Continue Reading →
This up-and-coming German death metal quartet have been around since 2005; ‘He Who Invokes Decadence’ marking their second full-length effort. So far all of their recordings have been self-released, including this latest one. The stylish, luxuriant artwork here and the… Continue Reading →
These Dutch deathsters have been going for some seven years now, give or take the odd hiatus. Featuring ex-Pestilence drummer Yuma van Eekelen and guest appearances from an ex-Cynic member, along with Prostitute Disfigurement’s Niels Adams, all signs are good…. Continue Reading →
It seems appropriate in the wake of Jeff Hanneman’s untimely demise that I should find myself confronted with an album centered around themes of war and humanity’s endless quest for destruction. Just Before Dawn (or Precis Innan Gryningen as the… Continue Reading →
Enshine is probably a name which is only familiar to those with ears glued to the underground. For everyone else, this is a Swedish/French ‘Melodic Doom’ collaboration whose debut was two long years in the making. The first aspect to… Continue Reading →
Abyssal, as I’m sure most readers are already aware, are a mysterious three-piece hailing from the UK. As I no longer inhabit the island(s) or have much of an idea of what’s going on there, their name has thus far… Continue Reading →