After 13 years of lying in wait, the Finnish band Black Beast has finally released its long awaited first full length album, "Nocturnal Bloodlust". The record came out on the 8th of November 2019 via Primitive Reaction Records and is the band's first release after the split CD with their country mates Bloodhammer in 2003,... Continue Reading →
3 years after the release of their debut album "Pledge Nothing but Flesh", the Irish duo Scáth Na Déithe came back on the 30th of January with the sophomore album, "The Dirge of Endless Mourning", via the German label Vendetta Records. Several things have changed in the past 3 years, and the most important thing... Continue Reading →
It seems that the Hungarian extreme metal underground is never resting and, when you least expect it, brilliant releases surface from its depths. If last time I wrote about Mistcavern's excellent "Winds of Misery" debut demo, now I will present you another surprising band, Ghoul Temple, which has released its first material on the 24th... Continue Reading →
End of 2019 is fast approaching, so what better way to celebrate this dying year than by reviewing another brilliant piece of metal of death ? In this short review I am going to talk about a very recent discovery which has rapidly become one of my favorite releases of 2019. I am pretty sure... Continue Reading →
Friday the 29th of November is the date when 2 two very interesting split releases will be unleashed via 2 different labels. Passio Christi Part I and Part II will see the light of day via Invictus Productions and Iron Bonehead respectively. Passio Christi / Beyond the Witch's Spell contains a split between Belgium's fierce... Continue Reading →
The name Mayhem does not need any kind of introduction when it comes to black metal and extreme music. Rivers of ink and blood have run describing the true or false events which happened in or around the band since its inception more than 30 years ago. Controversy is its middle name and the band... Continue Reading →
"The Darkness is churning - I watch the beneath" 21st of August A.B. is the day when Kringa released the very first full-length album of its rather short but interesting career. After a couple of well received demo tapes and EP’s released during the previous years, it was about time for the 4 Austrians to... Continue Reading →
"In the far dark corners of every human’s soul there lurks a black crouching spectre. The ghost-like shadow that waits. A shrouded thing that pulsates with malignant evil. The name of that ghost, is…Hagzissa". But who is this Hagzissa, you might ask, and why am I talking about this band? Well, to begin with, they... Continue Reading →
Imagine yourself on a warm and sunny day, entering an empty little gothic church in the countryside. The coldness of the place and the silence of the statues are pierced by the rays of the sun which enter through the beautiful stained glass. As you glance in awe at this beautiful sight, the dust particles... Continue Reading →
Hailing from the mythical land beyond the forest, better known as Transylvania, this mysterious group which is Siculicidium strikes back, 3 years after the release of their outstanding EP Land Beyond the Forest, with another material simply called "A halál és az iránytű" (The Death and the Compass). This EP will see the light of... Continue Reading →
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