Heading into their third decade as a band Greek veterans Rotting Christ are still going strong as they strike back with their 13th full length album entitled ‘The Heretic’. While starting out as a grindcore band in their early days their music has evolved towards melodic black metal and over the years they have refined their expression from album to album. I really got into Rotting Christ’s music around...
With albums like ´The Aura´and ´Earthborn Evolution´ in their backlog Canadian technical death metallers Beyond Creation really had a mountain to climb to follow up their previous efforts. I´ve read a few early reviews of this album around the internet and most of them awarded ´Algorythm´pretty average scores. Afther having heard the album a couple of times I tended to aggree to those conclutions, but I also knew that...
Our greek friends in Septicflesh are back with their 10th studioalbum, and as always it sounds unmistakeable Septicflesh although everything has been taken a step further this time. That goes for the orchestration in particular, and I'm almost tempted to define this as a death metal symphony rather than a symphonic death metal album. I'm sure most fans will love the sound of 'Codex Omega', but I guess some...
‘The Aura’, the debut album of Canadian technical death metal outfit Beyond Creation was some kind of a well-hidden treasure for a couple of years until it was re-released by Season Of Mist last year. It was simply a stunning debut showing both amazing musicianship, as well as the bands ability to create great songs. Now the highly anticipated follow up album is here and I must admit that...
The history of Necrophagia reaches back to 1983 and the band is considered as one of the pioneers of death metal. The band broke up in 1987 but re-united in 1998 and has since then been active. I must admit that I haven’t paid these guys too much attention in the past so my knowledge of their history and previous releases is quite limited. The music on ‘WhiteWorm Cathedral’...
'The Aura', debut album of Canadian technical death metallers Beyond Creation, was originally released in 2011 but has now been re-released by Season Of Mist. The band was founded in Montreal, Canada in 2005 and has only released one demo prior to 'The Aura'. What about the music then? Well, as already stated this is thechnical death metal and it's pretty amazing stuff. The technical skills of the individual...
I can´t remember having heard the debut album of Swiss band THIS MISERY GARDEN, so this is actually my first meeting with their music. After a creative break the guys are now back with the follow up to their 2009 debut ´Another Great Day On Earth´. ´Cornerstone´ was recorded in Downtone Studio, Geneva by Drop, while Jens Bogren has been responsible for the mastering. THIS MISERY GARDEN´s music is...
På sitt niende (!) album siden 2003 er Drudkh på vei tilbake til sine røtter. Det ble muligens litt for mye eksperimentering med post-rock-shoegazing black metal på deres forrige plate, "Handful Of Stars". Iallfall er "Eternal Turn of The Wheel" et kjærkomment skritt mot deres mer vante, storslåtte black/folk metal. Drudkh er fra Ukraina og synger på sitt morsmål, ukrainsk. Det...
Apokalypsen er nær! Nederlandske Dodecahedron er for meg et nytt og meget gledelig bekjentskap. Bandet som tidligere var kjent (?) under navnet "Order of the Source Below", har skiftet navn til det mer forståelige (hehe) Dodecahedron, før debutplaten med samme navn. Dette er ikke musikk som er lett fordøyelig. Vi beveger oss i...
Nothnegal kommer av alle steder i verden fra Maldivene og ble etablert av gitaristene Fufu og Hirlarl i 2006. Med seg på laget har de fått Kevin Talley (Dååth, ex-Dying Fetus, ex-Chimaira, ex-Misery Index) på trommer og Marco Sneck (Kalmah, Poisonblack) på keyboards. Musikken er vel i utgangspunktet moderne melodiøs death metal med et lett industrielt tilsnitt. Keyboard og pianoarrangementene er dog av det mer melankolske slaget som tilfører...