There are a few metal bands around the globe with the name Absorb, but certainly standing out in sound alone are the German death metallers carrying the title. Emerging back in 1989, the Bavarian quartet released a pair of demos… Read More ›
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Atomik Destruktor – Unnatural Disorder
If looking for some old school thrash inspired by the genre’s founders then the debut album from Portuguese metallers Atomik Destruktor is the perfect offering to get your teeth in to. Influenced by the likes of Destruction, Sodom, Kreator, Metallica,… Read More ›
Vomitile – Mastering the Art of Killing
Consisting of ten tracks which brutally roar whilst unleashing relentlessly nagging grooves aligned to insatiable riffing and a rhythmic assault which the word barbarous was drawn up for, Mastering the Art of Killing from Cyprus-based death metallers Vomitile, is a… Read More ›
Necromessiah – The Last Hope Of Humanity
Smothering the senses in the caustic excrement of hostility and a ravenous malevolence of blasphemy, The Last Hope Of Humanity the new album from Italian extreme metallers Necromessiah is a ferocious and fearsome confrontation which you only want to devour…. Read More ›
Death Mechanism – Twenty-First Century
Fancy some thrash metal with the psychotic intensity of a serial killer and the scathing abrasion of a sand storm then Twenty-First Century from Italian metallers Death Mechanism is a must. Band and album just run amok through the ear… Read More ›
Expanding the Extreme: an interview with Giannis K of Dark Vision
For over fifteen years Greek extreme metallers Dark Vision has earned themselves a strong reputation in the metal underground for their expansive death metal sounds. The recent release of their Ingrowth EP shows the band is stronger and more inventive… Read More ›
Dark Vision: Ingrowth
Greek extreme metallers Dark Vision has built a strong reputation in their homeland without truly finding a wider recognition worldwide since forming in 1996. Their new EP Ingrowth will not immediately put that right but with its impressive sounds could… Read More ›
Blynd: Punishment Unfolds
It seems extreme metal has saved its very best releases for the dying weeks of the year, the likes of Nidingr, Deus Otiosus, and Aeons each releasing colossal albums which are pushing limits, imagination, and most of all passions to… Read More ›
Nachtblut: Dogma
Dogma the new album from German band Nachtblut certainly grabs the attention from its first surge of energy to the last. It is a storm of inspired black metal and symphonic industrial with strong strains of classic metal for extra… Read More ›
Interview with Mem V. Stein of Exumer
This year has seen the very welcome return of German thrashers Exumer with a brand new album in Fire & Damnation. Their first release since reforming fully in 2008 and a gap of 25 years to its predecessor Exumer show… Read More ›
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