Tag Poland
“Progressive” can mean many things in music. In this case it seems to mean a lot of styles. On the band’s myspace site, their music is categorised as Metal/Progressive/Thrash. Yep, I get that. Then I read the following on the… Continue Reading →
Ulcer is a Polish sextet featuring members who have seen action in numerous bands from the depths of that country’s extreme metal scene. With stylish cover art and an improved logo on this, their second album, you could be forgiven… Continue Reading →
Welcome to the V-Lodge. Founded over 100 years ago in Victorian times, this was a place all about decadence when visual beauty was an aesthetic that had to be followed by anyone with serious notions about joining the aristocracy, well… Continue Reading →
Depopulate – Till Man Exists No More (Self Released) Infernal Death – Gniew (Pyscho Records) Infidel – Eviscerate Yourself (Old Temple Records) Masachist – Scorned (Selfmadegod Records) Our Editor chose to pass on four CDs to me during his recent… Continue Reading →
My immediate reaction on hearing this album, the second by Hell United, is that it is the essence of Polish blackened death metal. It has all the qualities – all-enveloping, heavy, dark, relentless and technical. No quarter is given. “Red… Continue Reading →
This is a split release between death metal barbarians Deception and the evil black metal horde Demonic Slaughter, both fromPoland. Presented in a real nice fold out digipack, the two bands have a fair bit of history behind them, the… Continue Reading →
The first thing that struck me about this release was the killer artwork, promising no-bullshit, old-school DM with a blackened edge. That’s not the full picture though: Embrional certainly sound like a product of their nativePoland, hammering the listener into… Continue Reading →
This is a 20 minute-long demo, so there’s not a lot of time to spread atmospheric nastiness. Hegerøth set about their evil business without ado. Whistling sounds accompany furious dark beats and of course rasping vocals. Not sounding so original?… Continue Reading →
Twas the year 1997 and two Polish gents decided to make a band… fast forward to 1999 and they record their first demo ‘Mirrormaze’. In 2001 the second demo ‘Die in Torment 666’. Then in 2002 a split CD called… Continue Reading →
Going through a batch of discs that had turned up from Poland I noticed the somewhat tripped out cover for this one, the fact that the band name was impossible to read (but not in standard bm iconography) and that… Continue Reading →
Polish grindcore/death metal will either be one thing or the other, good or very chaotic and very bad. It is the former thankfully on this latest in a long line of releases by this band. Immediate comparisons come to the… Continue Reading →
Way back in 2010 I was handed a promo by this Polish blackened death metal lot to review and was eagerly awaiting the full length. Which never turned up. Until now. The confusing thing is it seems to have been… Continue Reading →