Tag Technical
With a band name like this and the accompanying album titles plus cover art this US act isn’t out to make friends amongst the religious fraternity that’s for sure, preferring to blaspheme their way through ten tunes of brutal slamming… Continue Reading →
These eclectic Germans came up in a random conversation in a pub a month ago, piquing my interest, so when this album arrived on my desk it felt as if fate were intervening. Porta Nigra are one of those rare… Continue Reading →
Formed in 2010, Abiotic released just one EP before signing with the legendary Metal Blade. Hailing from Florida, a great death metal shadow inevitably looms over this Miami five-piece; especially considering that what they do is conceived as technical/progressive death…. Continue Reading →
From Louisiana and formed in 1998, Suture are a brutal death metal band who have had their share of tragedy and are finally re-formed after a significant break. I say significant break because this album was originally released about 4… Continue Reading →
US death metal has had a minor shake up recently, especially if you read some of the comments about a recent release that has split opinions worldwide. Far removed from that stigma are Chaos Inception who have a style and… Continue Reading →
I’ve been following Danish band Mnemic since their first album “Mechanical Spin Phenomena” in 2003. This and its successor “The Audio Injected Sound” (2004) showed signs of a fresh face in the world of modern, futuristic metal or metalcore or… Continue Reading →
Black Metal band Asaru has an irregular history. Having operated between 1995 and 2007 in Germany, the vocalist moved to Norway and re-formed the band in 2009. I didn’t hear the original incarnation but I imagine there’s not too much… Continue Reading →
Thrash metal is what Sweden’s Desultor are about. It’s clear from listening to “Masters of Hate”, their debut album that they don’t believe in messing about. Non-stop and like a whirlwind, it is also rich in technicality. The spooky, extra-terrestrial… Continue Reading →
I’ve been a fan since I first heard these guys in ’92 and a friend gave me the first four albums, so I’m rather familiar with most of the material that’s been rerecorded for this album. After the first few… Continue Reading →
I actually enjoyed JFAC’s “Ruination” album from 2009, reviewed during the sites previous incarnation Metal Team UK. Whenever I say that I like JFAC I am usually laughed at which does astound me and whilst their live performances aren’t exactly… Continue Reading →
Referring to the fact that there are only four boats per week in winter from their native Isle of Eigg in the Hebrides, one of the band members of The Massacre Cave commented “if one is cancelled and we have… Continue Reading →