Quite a little surprise we have here with MENCEA fro Greece. Never heard of them before, which is not really surprising considering the fact that this is their debut album. The promo sheet promises, as […]

Back from the ashes of ruins and cults, Menace Ruine will probably surprise many of their fans with their last album released by alien8 Recordings. The Die is Cast indeed conveys a completely different atmosphere than the […]

[disclaimer: there should be kobaiahn umlauts on the album title & band-name.] 1. MEKANIK is a bucket. A nice bucket, but a bucket. 2. A side-project from members of LYDIA LASKA, DISMAL EUPHONY, GEHENNA, and […]

Oh, those were the days! When death metal bands roamed the earth, rolling in the halls of the technical institutes of the world, embarking on a quest to find and to prove that the genre […]

The sophomore release from this industrial metal super group was somewhat of a surprise, given the rather drastic progression, which might have had something to do with the changing of members. Trevor and Donald (of […]

Now this is some seriously deranged stuff ! I have been hearing good things about these guys, but some of the praise was from the hipster contingent so I approached the release with caution. Despite […]

The anticipated and well publicized album harkening the return of Attila as the voice of Mayhem. Now although this is a band that firmly resides within the realm of Black Metal as oppossed to avantgarde, […]

Those of us fearing that 2009’s sudden return to activity for MASTER’S HAMMER with the Mantras album was only a one-off get-together of old friends having fun in the studio ought to be very pleased to see […]

MASTER’S HAMMER, the seminal proto-2nd wave Black Metal (=before Norwegian influence overrun the genre), is one of those bands that everybody’s heard of, but not that many have listened to. Even fewer are those who […]

The marching snare and the dramatic synths are a good start, and the explosion of samples is a fitting culmination to the intro. The first song “Planets” starts off with more samples, all very sci-fi, […]