Tag Death
Triptykon are a band that should need no introduction, but for the uninitiated I will give you a brief summary. Triptykon was born from the ashes of the legendary extreme metal band Celtic Frost. After a long silence, Celtic Frost… Continue Reading →
Hailing from St Petersburg Russia Tartharia have been active over the last decade plus and released somewhere in the region of 9 CD’s, a DVD and have played over 200 shows. If like me they are not a band you… Continue Reading →
Who said that heavy metal has to be downtrodden and miserable? Well, no-one did, but these guys from Finland with the Swedish sound manage to bring cheeriness to a totally dark and extreme experience. From the vocalist’s “Welcome to Rottendam”… Continue Reading →
This is a band whose name screams forefathers of the American death metal scene, that being the case, they only have two records behind them, although the second effort ‘Promise’ was well “beyond” (couldn’t help it!) their debut ‘From Beyond’… Continue Reading →
There are an awful lot of creative, inventive bands coming out of Italy these days. Chances are there always was, but the rest of the world knew nothing about it until fairly recently (or maybe I am just old and… Continue Reading →
Nothing to do with a certain Japanese band and I bet they get that all the time, Boris Records is a label based in Atlanta Georgia dedicated in promoting and releasing music within the metal scene there. Perhaps not as… Continue Reading →
“Finland, Finland, Finland, a country where I’d quite like to be!” Why the Monty Python quote, you may ask? Firstly, as a humorous counterpoint to the dark journey undertaken by listening to ‘Tulijoutsen’ (translates as something like Fire Swan, hence… Continue Reading →
Scream Bloody Leprosy! Isn’t it bizarre when you look at a photo of a band and assume that they are some obscure quantity from twenty-plus years ago who you’ve never heard of. In the case of California’s Morfin, despite their… Continue Reading →
It’s an oft-used cliché but in the case of renowned prog-death-metal crew Cynic, it really is no exaggeration to state that they have never played by the rules. From their 1993 debut ‘Focus’, the prodigious talents of the band were… Continue Reading →
At the tail end of last year a whopping great slab of funeral etched death doom from highly respected label Solitude Productions landed on me with a heavy thump. The band’s second album entitled ‘Merely the Fleshless We and the… Continue Reading →
French metal acts have a tendency to twist and distort your view of how a metal style should sound and for the most part this debut sits safely in the realms of modern technical death metal but initially on “LFDY”… Continue Reading →
Before becoming Legion Of The Damned this act operated under the name of Occult, releasing five albums between 1994 and 2003. While their brand of thrashy/death/black metal was energetic enough it failed to elevate the band beyond their underground status…. Continue Reading →