Tag Great Dane Records
Switzerland’s Calcined is a band I came across when I reviewed their debut album for the site back in 2015 and was reasonably impressed by it. The sophomore was equally decent upping the technicality slightly that accompanies a band when… Continue Reading →
Always nice to receive an actual physical product to review in these days of downloads and streaming. Also cool to get a couple of fine death metal albums from Great Dane Records of which this French band is my first… Continue Reading →
This is old school Death Metal from Brittany. Old School in the sound – reminiscent of Immolation, Malevolent Creation, Cannibal Corpse and even Death in parts. It is also old school in that this album is a compilation of two… Continue Reading →
Roman’s, Greeks, biblical tales, World Wars, big battles; there’s plenty going on here just in the lyrics and narrative themes on this second album from this Toulouse based band. I was looking at the titles and the likes of ‘The… Continue Reading →
A CD! An actual CD with artwork and a booklet and everything! In a world of downloads once I picked the CD off my hallway floor I also picked myself up at the shock. The fact that this is brutal… Continue Reading →
Surprisingly there is only one metal band I found simply called The Tomb when I was doing some research. There are loads of bands with triple or quadruple barrelled names with tomb in them but not just simply The Tomb… Continue Reading →
This is OSDM from Slovakia, the band have recorded output since 2010, this is their third full length release and I am not familiar with their earlier material. Starting with ‘Living Dead’ there is a strong European flavour, similar to… Continue Reading →
If you are going to name your album after one of the Three Mothers then it had damn well best be a work summoning up a sense of malevolent witchery. Based upon the writings of Thomas De Quincey and adapted… Continue Reading →
The family who play together slay together. Well that could well be the case here as I note that three members of this Perfect Killing Machine share the same surname. Active firstly as Naracus since 95 and then as Lipid,… Continue Reading →
Obviously intent on giving me a sound thrashing this is one of a couple of albums landing on the doormat here just before Xmas from Great Dane. Endbroken are a French quintet who are basically starting out having just released… Continue Reading →
Back in 2017 I covered this French band’s debut album called ‘Century Of Decline’ and was impressed with its take on death metal where it incorporated a few other stylings to keep you on your toes, as only French extreme… Continue Reading →
If you scour the internet as I do looking for obscure stuff back in dungeons of the late 80s and 90s then you have probably come across many split releases in extreme metal, many of which are absolutely brilliant and… Continue Reading →