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Vallenfyre’s debut ‘A Fragile King’ was one of my favourite albums of the past few years, although I wondered whether it would be best left as a standalone body of work. The songs that comprised it were born through grief… Continue Reading →
Just by hitting ‘play’ and listening to the first (and title) track come tearing out of your speakers like a scalded cat, you know you’re in for a treat….. especially if you’re a fan of old school Swedeath. Gothenburg’s Miasmal… Continue Reading →
Sweden’s Puteraeon are back once again with another fine slice of old school death metal, laced with lyrical Lovecraft worship. This band are one of the busiest and hardest working bands I have come across in a long time. Since… Continue Reading →
Forget In Flames, forget Arch Enemy, forget Dark Tranquillity. This EP from one-man project Putrified (also Swedish), drags us kicking and screaming right back to the slimy, maggot-infested inception of the whole Swedish Death Metal scene, or at least that… Continue Reading →
`Dum Spiro Spero’ marks 10 years of life for this grisly, underground outfit from Switzerland, although by the sounds emanating from this filthy slab of nastiness, you’d think they had been going a lot longer! These boys are from the… Continue Reading →
Anarchos is a new band featuring, apparently, a number of Dutch underground metal stalwarts. (As names are not included with the promo material, it’s hard to say exactly who they are.) Anyhow, ‘Descent Into the Maelstrom’ is their debut release,… Continue Reading →
How often do you read a review of an album in the magazines / on the net and the words ‘sounds like (insert band name)’ or ‘this is a (insert band name) rip off’ pop up? Happens to me lots… Continue Reading →
Picture a grotty three lane highway decked out with vast arrays of death metal bands from all quarters of the planet. In the first lane you have those bands that sit there churning out the odd album hoping for a… Continue Reading →
Death metal is such an over-saturated genre, even the sub-genres and sub-sub-genres have millions of sound-alike bands, all desperate to prove that there is something unique about them, something which separates them from the other growling, gargling, detuned lunatics. In… Continue Reading →
There seem to be an awful lot of retrogressive death metal bands around these days. It seems everyone is hankering for the days when death metal was scary, new, dark and exciting. Not every band hits the mark, in fact… Continue Reading →
Italian’s Krysantemia were formed in 2009 by the Secchi brothers, Alessandro & Lucio, with their line up completed by guitarist Alex Ruggeri and vocalist Davide Puccini. Soon after getting together, they self released their debut album “This is Resurrection” which… Continue Reading →
Like many underground bands, Denmark’s Corpus Mortale have a fairly long, yet stuttering history. Since their inception in 1993, they have released only a handful of albums (this being their fourth). One can only guess at the pitfalls and problems… Continue Reading →