Hailing from The Netherlands, Insurrection is a band that meshes classic melodic death metal and modern day thrash metal in a very enjoyable way. With the bands second release and first full length album, “Circles of Despair”, one of the major take-aways from this album is their diversity in writing. Is it absolutely ground breaking […]
CD review 2019
Destruction – Born To Perish
It is good to hear that old school thrash metal is still alive. With releases of Sacred Reich, Anthrax, Kreator and now Destruction we are being overloaded with quality thrash madness. You might have thought that these bands remain in the autumn of their lives…but on contrary these bands are still releasing solid albums and […]
Sabaton – The Great War
I remember taking history classes at school. Through the years I had different teachers and my interest of the subject was determined by how my teachers told the stories. Most of the time, I thought it was quite boring. Maybe its partially my age, yet my interest for different battles through the ages has clearly […]
Memoriam – Requiem for mankind
Memoriam was founded on the remnants of the late Bolt Thrower, back in 2016 and it includes members also from Benediction and Sacrilege, to name a couple. It is no lie that the band have been somewhat of a tribute to Bolt Thrower’s drummer, Martin Kearns, but with time grew to become a bigger thing […]
Necronautical – Apotheosis
It’s been nearly 10 years since an album of a (extreme / black) symphonic metal band has stuck with yours truly as much as Necronautical recently (Carach Angren’s ‘Death Came Through A Phantom Ship’ probably being the last). Not that there haven’t been decent releases in the genre. On the contrary: the above mentioned, Septicflesh […]
Wesenwille – I: Wesenwille
Label: Redefining Darkness RecordsReview by Erik Utrecht and Black Metal always has been a good combination. Numerous acts are hailing from this city. I will not name them but I can mention this: Wesenwille is another great act from this Dutch city. Their debut simply called I: Wesenwille. And although the temperature is already high […]
Asagraum – ‘Dawn of Infinite Fire’
Release date: September 13, 2019 Edged Circle Productions Where does a band cross the fine line between writing standard, yet enjoyable material or writing plainly generic songs? It’s a question that yours truly has been pondering about, whilst reviewing Asagraum‘s ‘Dawn of Infinite Fire’. Of course, in the end it’s a matter of taste. With […]
Firespawn – Abominate
What do you get when you put in one room members of Necrophobic and Entombed A.D? If you said “damn good music”, you’re in the right side of things. Even though Firespawn have been around for no less than 4 years, Abominate is the first real release that my Dumbo ears have listened to and […]
Abbath – Outstrider
Since Abbath has left Immortal we are being treated upon not only one, but two great acts. Immortal still exists and released the excellent “Pagan Northern Gods”. Luckily our favourite Black Metal clown Abbath has pursued his musical endeavours solo, spawning its excellent self-titled debut a few years back. Doesn’t mean that this Bathory devotee […]
Heinous – Demo I MMXVIII
Heinous is clouded in obscurity. Almost no information is shared with its audience. It seems that they have released a demo in 2018. Since New Era has a nose for illustrious Black Metal acts they decided to re-release it on cd. Given new artwork this piece of art is now available in limited edition. I […]