Mercyless are a French death metal band and this is their sixth album.
This is a band that have been around for quite some time at this point, and you’d better believe they know a thing or two about their killing art.
Last year’s split with Crusher was a solid example of their riff-led, ferocious style, and acted as somewhat of a taster for this new album. Continue reading “Mercyless – Pathetic Divinity (Review)”
This is a split between black metallers Minenwerfer from the US and Ukrainian blackened death/doom band 1914.
First up we have Minenwerfer, with 21 minutes of fast and barbaric black metal.
Their side of the split contains four tracks; 3 originals and a re-recording of a song off their debut demo. Continue reading “Minenwerfer/1914 – Ich hatt einen Kameraden – Split (Review)”
This is the debut album of Italian symphonic metal band Oniricide.
Oniricide ostensibly play Nightwish-inspired symphonic metal, but there’s more than just this going on here. The music here has a nice, earthy feel to it that reminds me of some doom metal bands as much as symphonic/melodic ones.
The Nightwish influence is only a starting point, as Continue reading “Oniricide – Revenge of Souls (Review)”
Hyrye play atmospheric black metal and come from the UK. This is their debut album.
Featuring harsh black metal that’s born out of the early atmospheric style, it also has some progressive and folk influences that it welcomes into its wind-swept embrace.
Over 66 minutes the band paint dark pictures through extremity Continue reading “Hryre – From Mortality to Infinity (Review)”
This is the debut album by Canadian progressive metal band Fractal Cypher.
I confess, I was drawn to this album by the cover artwork, which is the reason I decided to listen to it. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but in today’s digital age it’s worth noting that album artwork is still important, at least in my eyes.
So what of the music? Well, Fractal Cypher play modern progressive metal with ample keyboard enhancements and a Continue reading “Fractal Cypher – The Human Paradox (Review)”
Hailing from The Netherlands, this is the debut EP from this death metal band.
This is a timeless brand of death metal that has elements from several different eras in its makeup. The songs have a good degree of catchiness and hooks, and this is juxtaposed against the raw brutality that the band also bring to the melting pot of influences that they clearly have.
The singer has an absolutely brutal voice that’s all guttural Continue reading “Sisters of Suffocation – Brutal Queen (Review)”
This is the second album from Turkish death metal band Carnophage.
Sitting and writing this on a lazy Sunday morning, I’m listening to Monument again and it’s like a force of nature is rushing out of the speakers into my ears, engaging my brain and waking me up like it’s slapping me in the face over and over again.
Yeah, I still feel tired, but now I’m awake-tired. I’m sure you can relate. Continue reading “Carnophage – Monument (Review)”
Subiminal Fear’s third album, Escape from Leviathan, is a highly enjoyable mix of modern metal, cybermetal and melodic groove metal, giving the listener almost 50 minutes of aural candy that is hard to ignore.
One half of the band’s vocal duo, Carmine Cristallo, (he of the sublime clean singing voice), told us all about the band’s latest creation, Escape from Leviathan…
Hello, it’s nice to talk with you all! Subliminal Fear was formed in 2002 and when we started this project we played a melodic death metal with Swedish and some metal-core influences. In the past, there are been also many changes in our line-up and this didn’t help to make grow us like band. Domenico and me, the main writers of the songs, split from the band for some years and the second album is been released in a strange situation and without stability. Fortunately we are back after some years to work together. About that first line-up, the founder members remained are Alessio, Domenico and me. When we started to talk about a new album and I back in the band, we felt many things were changed with new musical experiences and also many new influences that we wanted to include in our music. In the beginning of 2014 we felt like we were starting with a new life for the band and the new album Escape from Leviathan is the result of our evolution. Continue reading “Interview with Subliminal Fear”
This is the debut EP from Mindcult, a one-man doom metal band from the US.
This is fuzzy doom rock with an addictive edge that lures the listener in, seductively, with wily allure.
A large part of this is down to the singer’s voice, which Continue reading “Mindkult – Witch’s Oath (Review)”
Trap Them are a hardcore band from the US. This is their fifth album.
Trap Them play dark hardcore, full of raw nastiness and rabid bite.
The singer has the perfect voice for this kind of thing; completely feral and utterly aggressive. His high-pitched screaming shouts lash out from the music like dangerous bladed weapons, eager to draw blood. With compelling rhythms and engaging, memorable vocal patterns, his voice is the driving factor and focal point for the dark music. Continue reading “Trap Them – Crown Feral (Review)”
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