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Synasthasia (try saying that after a few drinkies) are from Germany, so they obviously have metal in their bones. They released their first demo back in 1999, followed by their first full length album ‘The Land of Lores’ in 2003…. Continue Reading →
‘Spawning The Nephilim’ the 2009 debut album from Lord Mantis must have escaped me but obviously it must have had some good points to get the group signed from a more obscure label to Candlelight Records. The Chicago based band… Continue Reading →
Taking their name from a skeletal, flaming daemon from the D&D universe, New Jersey’s Immolith specialise in a hybrid of the old Norwegian and Swedish styles of BM, the songs forever tumbling into the abyss as they are dragged along… Continue Reading →
The story behind this UK band is unusual. With an album released in 2000, a key member died and his work for the next recorded album had to be recovered after a computer crash. If the story behind the band… Continue Reading →
A gas masked psychopath on the front and zombie like nuns on the back means that this is about to be a full frontal tympanic membrane carnage. Meta-Stasis is composed of members from Ted Maul and Sikth. It is very… Continue Reading →
On Top are a US“ power trio” who will apparently be suitable for fans of Motley Crue, Dokken, Queensryche, WASP and Dio? A sweeping statement, and to my ears rather inaccurate! This is dirty rock n roll, something that has… Continue Reading →
Finlandia, oh how you are spoiling us. Having just about recovered from the excellent new Swallow The Sun album in February, barely a breath can be drawn before more atmospheric gloom and doom is served up by Barren Earth, who… Continue Reading →
‘It’s not metal!!!’ – a familiar cry from the more die-hard amongst the extreme metal fraternity when confronted with something that diverges more than an iota from genre templates laid down decades ago. With the levels of experimentation and cross-pollination… Continue Reading →
With the demise of a couple of big bands Vinny Appice (Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell, Dio, Ozzy) and Rex Brown (Pantera, Down) have teamed up with a killer Vocalist Dew Bragg and guitarist Mark Savon, both of whom have… Continue Reading →
Inverticrux used to be called Vintage Flesh, whose 2011 album Hour of the Night Gaunts I previously reviewed (here: http://www.metalteamuk.net/june11reviews/cdreviews-vintage.htm.) So in a sense you can consider this a sequel, and as with every sequel, I (the creator of the review), am convinced it’s ‘better… Continue Reading →