Obvurt is a new Canadian death metal band featuring some pretty recognizable names. We have Philippe Drouin (Unbreakable Hatred) doing Vocals and Guitar , Olivier Pinard (Cattle Decapitation, Cryptopsy) on Bass Guitar and Samuel Santiago ( ex: First Fragment, Gorod) on the drums! Obvurt will be releasing their First EP VIA Brutal Mind March 31st! […]
CD review 2021
Kjeld – Ôfstân
Kjelds’ second full length ‘Ôfstân’ will hit the (mostly virtual) stores February 15th 2021. A highly anticipated (on my part any way) piece of Frysian raw black metal – especially after their raw, bulldozering piece of Skym. In their teaser song ‘Betsjoend’, a more theatrical and atmospheric sound can definitely be heard. The opener of […]
Dødsferd – Skotos
You would think that Dødsferd is a Scandinavian act. Wrong! Despites its name this band is coming from Greece (strange enough). Already active since ’01 but nevertheless, I have never heard of them. Dødsferd makes old skool fuelled Misanthropic Black Metal. An aggressive, harsh yet melodic sound which reminds me a little of Craft, Judas […]
Frozen Soul – Crypt of Ice
The year is 2021 and it seems like yet again, Death Metal bands pop up with releases like mushrooms after the rain. Like drunkards after a festival. Like pandemics after a… Ah, joke’s gone. Anyway, sometimes a group of people can just play some good Death Metal, without trying to reinvent the wheel. A band […]
Digerdöden – Genom dödens svarta törst
In 2019 I made a review of Tyranni‘s “Baron af avoghetens smärta” which ended up in my yearlist. Since Digerdöden is a project of one of the members of Tyranni I couldn’t resist reviewing the second full length release of this Swedish misanthropic Black Metal act. Because of the production it took a few spins […]
Soilwork- A Whisp of the Atlantic
Towards the end of the great Gothenburg melodic death metal boom of the mid 1990’s Soilwork is a band that early-on forged its way in the melodeath scene by being rather fast and aggressive comparatively. Early releases such as Steelbath Suicide exemplify Soilworks roots of rawness, aggression and speed compounded with popular melodeath rhythms, leads, […]
Wardruna – Kvitravn
Nowadays it’s hard to get around Norwegian band Wardruna. Their popularity has increased immensely the last years. Where I remember standing in in little concert hall more than a decade ago with about twenty others to witness a rare performance, lately their gigs in front of a few hundred, not yet thousand heads counting crowd, […]
Sagenland – Oale Groond
As mentioned before the Netherlands proofs to have fertile ground and keeps spawning quality black metal acts and releases. “Oale Groond” is no exception. In this case the concoction is very easy created: take two talented musicians, in this case Batr (Meslamteae, Asgrauw) and Herjann (Cultus), add some conservative Black Metal and a pinch of […]