Often when spending a couple of hours listening quickly through incoming promos, most just flow by without latching on, though once in a while some music just hits the right spot right away. Earlier this year I was listening to the new EP “Plague Hymns” from the American duo SARCOPTES, an EP that stuck right […]
Thrash Metal
MERCYLESS- “The Mother Of All Plagues”
MERCYLESS- The Mother Of All Plagues [Xenokorp 2020] More brutal Death Metal than crunchy Thrashyness from this French band nowadays. That isn’t all bad, there are groove, hooking riffs and slaying leads, punishing rhythms and an overall great intensity and powerful growls and a ripping production. Overall a good Death Metal album! http://www.chez.com/macprod/pages/chmerc.html https://www.facebook.com/mercylesscult/ http://www.xenokorp.com/ […]
GRAVEWÃœRM “Funeral Rites”
GRAVEWÃœRM “Funeral Rites” [Funeral Empire Records] Good old GRAVEWÃœRM is back, with a vengeance once again, a fistful of Thrashing Black/Death Metal, as we’ve been used to since 1992. “Funeral Rites” is the 16th full length album, if I haven’t counted wrong, since the first full length attack and killer album “Ancient Storms Of War” […]
DEGENERATE interview
In this modern internet age things tend to move fast if the stars are aligned. I received an email with a video track from a new Dutch band’s first demo, I gave it a listen and liked it, I responded to the email and a little week later received the demo on CD – gave […]
ARES KINGDOM – “Incendiary”
Ares Kingdom – Incendiary (Nuclear War Now! Productions 2010) I don’t really recall when I got into ARES KINGDOM. I have been a huge fan of ORDER FROM CHAOS since I first laid ears upon them many many years ago. The mighty Chuck Keller knows his way around obscure and thrashy riffing that latches on, […]