Expulsion is my first experience with Northern German BUGEN HAGEN, but the band’s name was not entirely unfamiliar (and no, I am not referring to Carl Bugen Hagen,…
A doomy intro closely heir to the obscurest epiphanies of bands such as ARCANE SUN or MOURNING BELOVETH immediately alerted me to a potentially interesting, predominantly Doom metal…
I was taken aback by the opener Of Grievance and Exhumation… (The Fallen): a calm, melodic sound suddenly bursts into moments of relentless brutality – excellent drum work…
The American way of life and economic culture is definitely not on my friends list. That is a widely acknowledged fact. As with every other thing in life,…
Prolific in the Black Metal scene and with an envious CV as regards label cooperation, the Dutch CIRITH GORGOR are back with the fifth studio release, also prolifically…
Despite the Spanish-sounding name, COERCION come from Sweden and have been around since 1992 – the discography is quite significant too: it includes Headway and Human Failure (demos),…
Melodic Death Metal, very well performed and thought-out, with heart-kindling emotional musical creations – all of it together brings about COMPOS MENTIS’ Fragments of a Withered Dream.
Very heavily influenced by the American school of modern metal (a type of sound I absolutely cannot come to terms with), the (surprisingly enough) only bad aspect to…
Italian COREY were regurgitated in 1998 by Stefano and Baulo (guitars), who saw the COREY ranks filled by Matteo (drums), Nicola (bass) and Iulo (vocals). These six years…