After KATAKLYSM’s ninth album, “Prevail” (2008), vocalist Maurizio Iacono found the time to begin an own project called EX DEO. With this he would focus, lyrically, on Roman history, on its emperors, the important figures and happenings of that time. … continue reading
INSET is a young Polish Death Metal band, joining in the footsteps of e.g. VADER, BEHEMOTH, DECAPITATION, and others. The band was formed in 2011 by Dariusz Kaczorowski (bass) and Pawel Adamowicz (guitar). Once the line-up was completed they could … continue reading
THUNDERKRAFT is another Ukrainian Death/Black Metal band that is signed to Svarga Music. As I said in SVYATOGOR’s review (see here), this band features some of those members. The music, however, is different, in that THUNDERKRAFT’s is labelled as, according … continue reading
SVYATOGOR is a Ukrainian Metal band said to play “Experimental Death/Black Metal with the unusual for this style arrangement, vocal parts and melodic fragments”. SVYATOGOR came ot life in the autumn of 1999. Its line-up was completed in the years … continue reading
HERFST (AUTUMN in English) is a Belgian Melodic Death/Black Metal band, formed in 2003 – and here I copy-paste from the gig report (see here) when the band supported GOD DETHRONED in October 2011 -, has over the years undergone … continue reading
Last year the Canadian Progressive Death Metal band DERELICT released a 3-track Promo EP (see my review here) as pre-taste for their third full-length. This new album is titled “Perpetuation” and came out on the 20th April. It was mixed … continue reading
Back in 2010 the Danish Thrash/Death Metal band THE KANDIDATE released its debut album, “Until We Are Outnumbered”. See my review at this location. THE KANDIDATE is the new band of ex-HATESPHERE vocalist Jacob Bredahl. While I quite liked HATESPHERE’s … continue reading
The United Arab Emirates, not exactly a region known for anything Metal. There aren’t that many bands there, but Metal-Archives does list 19 of them. The only one in that list that rings a bell to me is NERVECELL, who … continue reading
Several months ago I got a review copy of “Into The Opaque…” by the Dutch Progressive Death Metal band ENDLESS CYCLE. The band was formed in 2005 and put out a 3-track demo in 2007. Two of those songs, “Failure” … continue reading
Three years ago I got a request to review the EP “A Path To Extinction” by the Australian Death/Thrash Metal band DRED. See the review here. The four tracks showed what great potential and skills these guys had and it … continue reading