¨ Fall of the Idols¨
27.03.2014
Full- length
Symphonic/ Melodic Death Metal with Folk/ Industrial elements
WormHoleDeath Records
Total Playing Time: 43:37
Playlist:
''Lokasenna''
''The Fall of the Idols''
''The Cosmogonic Process''
''Solitude in Silence''
''Hawthorns for the Jotunn's Harlot''
''Rise of the Lokean''
''Naglfahr Lounge Music''
''Spirit of the Unrest''
''Torn by Thorns''
''Drowning in the Valkyrian Void''
'' Finnish symphonic epic dark metal in its best form; a very solid work, with great sound quality, a really promising debut album full of interesting and quite diverse compositions! One of the coolest metal bands you'll find out there today.''
Line- up:
Ilkka Koivisto- Drums
Kalle Hotti- Guitars
Antti Koivisto- Bass
Henri Asikainen- Vocals
Toni Haapasaari- Keyboards
Ville Oravala- Guitars
Rating:
9/10 (LITOCRANIUS)
PURTENANCE (Finland
¨
Sacrifice the King¨
01. 07. 2012
E.P.
Death Metal
Xtreem
Music
Total Playing Time: 16: 59
Playlist:
¨
Intro¨
¨
So Many Years of Fear¨
¨
Demon Gods¨
¨
Maniac¨
¨
Sacrifice of Your Life¨
¨
Outro¨
¨ Playing old school death
metal that doesn’t mean you’re a successful band or things like that!
And if we take in
consideration that this Finnish band was in stand- by for almost 20 years, we
could say that they lost their touch; the new release sounding too much like
Deicide, I don’t see what the main idea of this reunion is!!!
Perhaps a future opus will
tell us what exactly this band is looking for and if their presence on the
metal market is a good one for the members and, why not, listeners! ¨
Line-
up:
Ville- Vocals/ Bass
Juha- Guitar
Harri- Drums
Rating:
6, 5/ 10 (LITOCRANIUS)
OBLITERATE (Slovakia
¨
The Filth of Humanity¨
2012
Full- length
Brutal Deathcore Metal
Gothoom
Productions
Total Playing Time: 33: 13
Playlist:
¨
Intro¨
¨
Kill to Feel More Alive¨
¨
Dismantled System¨
¨
This Is Mine¨
¨
Hypnotic Value¨
¨
Interlude¨
¨
Impose, Suffocate and Eradicate¨
¨
Dementia¨
¨
Deception¨
¨
Outro¨
¨ Probably one of the best
materials I heard this last year, and a fuckin’ awesome band I met long time
ago playing in a different musical style!
Completely chaos from head
to head, brutality reigns everywhere and a combination between technical lines
and the vocal score never heard before to anyone else could be some of the main
ingredients that can make you stay focused on this last opus signed
Obliterate!¨
Line-
up:
Laci- Vocals
Saš Balintová- Bass
Ivan Babilonsky-
Guitar
Marcel Malega- Drums
Rating:
8, 5/
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
NECHOCHWEN
(U.S.A.
¨ OtO¨
31. 07. 2012
Full- length
Pagan Folk
Metal
Bidrune Recordings
Total Playing
Time: 31: 19
Playlist:
¨ Cultivation¨
¨ On the Wind¨
¨ Otomen'pe (Our Ancestors) ¨
¨ Haniipi-miisi (Elm Tree) ¨
¨ He Ya Ho Na¨
¨ Pekikalooletiiwe (Insrtructions; an Exhoration) ¨
¨ An interesting
mixture of classical guitars, folk percussion and chants, togehter with some
traditional black metal lines is Nechochwen’s gift to everyone loving such
music! ¨ OtO¨ is an outstanding release which has a place for all
musical tastes in it, an contemplative work which is spiritual and savage in
the same time!¨
Line- up:
Nechochwen- All Instruments
& Vocals
Rating:
8, 5/ 10 (LITOCRANIUS)
NATUR (U.S.A.
¨
Head of Death¨
04. 06. 2012
Full- length
Heavy Metal
Earache Records
Total Playing
Time: 47: 25
Playlist:
¨ Head of Death¨
¨ The Messenger¨
¨ Goblin Shark¨
¨ Decion¨
¨ The Servant¨
¨ Vermin Rift¨
¨ Spider Baby¨
¨ Mutations in Maine¨
¨ Old school
heavy metal extremely interesting and attractive, mostly because of its technical
skills, but a musical work that is dragged down by the inadequacy of a vocal score
out of place on such a heavy metal support. ¨
Line- up:
Mexicutioner-
Bass
Tooth Log-
Drums
Dino Destroyer-
Guitar
Weibust-
Vocals/ Guitar
Rating:
8/ 10 (LITOCRANIUS)
NAER MATARON (Hellas ) NEW
¨ Long Live Death¨
06. 07. 2012
Full- length
Black Grind
Metal
Witching Hour Records
Total Playing
Time: 36: 40
Playlist:
¨ Intro / Long Live Death¨
¨ Apocalypse of the Ancient One¨
¨ Sleepless Beings¨
¨ I Am Lucifer, Messenger of Your Death¨
¨ Goat Worship¨
¨ Faceless Wrath of Oblivion¨
¨ Parade into Centuries¨
¨ Whisper og Begotten Premonition¨
¨ The Cult of Doom and Dagger¨
¨ Ode to Death (the Way of All Flesh) ¨
¨ Blast beats,
deep growls and fast as hell riffs isn’t a surprise for those of you used to
Naer Mataron’s last creation.
Although it is clear that Naer Mataron risk of
losing some black metal fans with a somewhat attenuated in favour of big
guttural death that task, the Greeks are not less formidable efficiency and a
remarkable power. Both rough and melodic ¨ Long Live Death¨ is like an uppercut
sound that stirs the gut and makes your ears bleed to death!¨
Line- up:
Kaiadas- Bass/ Vocals
Indra- Guitar
Asmodeus Draco Dux- Drums
Rating:
8, 5/
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
MONSTERWORKS
(New Zealand
¨
Man:: Instincts¨
10. 07. 2012
E.P.
Thrash Death Metal
Casket
Music
Total Playing Time: 12: 10
Playlist:
¨
The Creation Dream¨
¨
All Suns Die¨
¨
Free Will¨
¨ So…, here we have an E.P.
of good quality, which seems a little bit more accessible than the other albums
released by Monsterworks; it is much more melodic and it introduce this way the
new album soon to come on the metal market!¨
Line-
up:
Hugo- Bass
James- Drums
Jon- Vocals/ Guitar
Marcus- Guitar
Rating:
8/
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
MASTER (U.S.A) NEW
¨
The New Elite¨
05. 07. 2012
Full- length
Old School Death Metal
Pulverised
Records
Total Playing Time: 44: 25
Playlist:
¨
Rise Up and Fight¨
¨
Remove the Knife¨
¨
Smile as You're Told¨
¨
Redirect the Evil¨
¨
Out of Control¨
¨
As Two Worlds Collide¨
¨
New Reforms¨
¨
Guide Yourself¨
¨
Souls to Dissuade¨
¨
Twist of Fate¨
¨ The American death metal
legend is back in business with a new killer opus and this time is about to be
a great part of the elite death metal scene as the title of the release speaks
for itself!¨
Line-
up:
Paul Speckmann- Vocals/
Bass
Zdenek Pradlovsky- Drums
Alex Nejezchleba- Guitar
Rating:
9/
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
KRITTER
(Spain
¨
Genesis¨
15. 02. 2012
Full- length
Melodic Power Death Metal
Xtreem
Music
Total Playing Time: 40: 24
Playlist:
¨
Genesis (Intro) ¨
¨
Your soul is mine¨
¨
Fight to the End¨
¨
Alone¨
¨
Scream of Leviathan¨
¨
All Shall Perish¨
¨
Drink for the Alives¨
¨
Lies¨
¨
Beodo¨
¨
Our Last Days¨
¨ The band preaches melodic
death metal with Viking/ folk influences to dish. Now… each one of you must
check on his own if this is that kind of metal that the label description goes
on for Kritter! Because combining Children of Bodom, Ensigerum, Norther and
Eluveitie must be something very interesting if the final result likes you.¨
Line-
up:
Javi- Bass
David- Drums
Marco- Guitar
Huevo- Vocals
Javier Hernández- Guitar
Rating:
7/
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
KORPIKLAANI
(Finland
¨ Manala¨
03. 08. 2012
Full- length
Folk Metal
Nuclear
Blast Records
Total Playing Time: 49: 31
Playlist:
¨
Kunnia¨
¨
Tuonelan Tuvilla¨
¨
Rauta¨
¨
Ruuminmaltaa¨
¨
Petoeläimen Kuola¨
¨
Synkkä¨
¨
Ievan Polkka¨
¨
Husky Sledge¨
¨ Dolorous¨
¨ Uni¨
¨ Metsälle¨
¨ Sumussa Hämärän Aamun¨
Bonustrack (Regular
Edition)
¨
Soil of the Corpse¨
¨ Without poetic essay on
the album, Korpiklaani sign a very good thought, in line with the precedent
that confirms its return in shape and evolution in a particular musical style
but just waiting to be explored.
Doubt that the provision of a new violin
brought a breath of fresh, new ideas, and the talent of the latter, already
well developed, only needs to be expanded.¨
Line-
up:
Cane- Guitar
Jonne Järvelä- Vocals/Guitar
Juho Kauppinen- Acordion
Jarkko Aaltonen- Bass
Tuomas Rounakari- Violin
Rating:
9/
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
KONTINUUM
(Iceland
¨
Earth Blood Magic¨
13. 08. 2012
Full- length
Ambient Dark Metal
Candlelight
Records
Total Playing Time: 55: 41
Playlist:
¨
Endgame¨
¨
Steinrunninn Skogur¨
¨
Moonshine¨
¨
Stranger Air¨
¨
Lightbearer¨
¨
City¨
¨ Lys
Milda Ljos¨
¨
Red¨
¨
I Gljufradal¨
¨ Very nice first opus
released by Kontinuum, a real surprise in music variation and, why not, one of
the most interesting releases of its kind!
¨ Earth Blood Magic¨ opens
the listener often dreamy soundscapes, melodic pieces that invite you to close
your eyes and let yourself carried away, causing the dark parts, which are available
as well feel, even a bit darker. Even if Kontinuum same groovy, dark and
sometimes emotional works to go to many of its genre colleagues, and even if
they were able to gather quite a few great songs and missing parts on their
debut, for me personally has something much more interesting in the end!¨
Line-
up:
Engilbert Hauksson- Bass
Kristján B. Heiðarsson-
Drums
Ingi Þór Pálsson- Guitar
Einar "Eldur"
Thorberg-
Birgir Thorgeirsson-
Vocals/ Guitar
Rating:
8/
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
I
AM I (U.K.
¨ Event
Horizon¨
26. 05. 2012
Full- length
Heavy Metal
Independent
Release
Total Playing Time: 45: 58
Playlist:
¨
This Is My Life¨
¨
Silent Genocide¨
¨
Stay a While¨
¨
Cross the Line¨
¨
In the Air Tonight¨
¨
King in Ruins¨
¨
Kiss of Judas¨
¨ Dust
2 Dust¨
¨
Wasted Wonders¨
¨
Pave the Way¨
¨ Melodic leads as fine and
subtle as a brain surgery and choruses starved of energy these are the main
ingredients offered by I Am I, something so interesting that made me believe I
have never met, until now, such musical lines!
But in the other hand I
think that ZP Theart and the guys have delivered an album which is dripping
with passion, talent and heart, liberally sprinkled with many contemporary
moments (is a figure of speech if we look at the list with the combos in which
the band members have been involved meanwhile)!
A must have indeed!!!¨
Line-
up:
Neil Salmon- Bass
Phil Martini- Drums
Jacob Ziemba- Guitar
ZP Theart- Vocals
Rating:
9, 5/
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
HUMANGLED
(Italy
¨
Odd Ethics¨
08. 06. 2012
E.P.
Death Metal
Abyss
Records
Total Playing Time: 14: 50
Playlist:
¨
Needles of the Blind¨
¨
Skinned, to Feel All¨
¨
Smells Acrid¨
¨
Deny Your Creed¨
¨ Those of you loving death
metal, you should know that this new work released by Humangled isn’t something
that could literally blow you up!
¨ Odd Ethics¨ although it
sounds a bit old school could also offer you good modern lines too, but… there
is something that can not make me happy at all; and regarding the whole image
that this material tries to bring in front of us I’d say that many things must
be re- evaluate for the band’s upcoming!¨
Line-
up:
Luke Scurb- Guitar
Andrew Goreds- Vocals
Frank Nichols- Bass
Valdaster- Drums
Vhell Miscarriage- Guitar
Rating:
7, 5/
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
HOUR
OF 13 (U.S.A.
¨
333¨
29. 05. 2012
Heavy Doom Metal
Earache
Records
Total Playing Time: 47: 23
Playlist:
¨
Deny the Cross¨
¨
The Burning¨
¨
Rite of Samhain¨
¨
Spiral Vacuum¨
¨
Who's to Blame? ¨
¨ Sea
of Trees¨
¨
Lucky Bones¨
¨ Apparently Hour of 13’s
new release is way better than the last Saint Vitus, this being the general
point of view expressed by many reviewers around the world, and things goes
exactly this way as I can see on my own!
¨ 333¨ it’s a hard album to
criticise, everything’s done really well, with a lot of heart & passion. Fans
of occult-themed vintage metal will also find a treasure trove in the ominous
satanic lyrics and soaring melodies that weave through the dark landscape, and
that's where Swanson, Davis and crew really get the job done. Fans of
occult-themed vintage metal will also find a treasure trove in the ominous
satanic lyrics and soaring melodies that weave through the dark landscape, and
that's where Swanson, Davis and crew really get the job done as I suppose
you’ll see through the whole album if you decide to check it in the end!¨
Line-
up:
Phil Swanson- Vocals
Rating:
9 /
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
HELSTAR
(U.S.A.
¨
30 Years of Hel¨
31. 08. 2012
Live DVD
Power Metal
AFM
Music
Total Playing Time: 01: 55: 14
Playlist:
¨
Angels Fall to Hell¨
¨
Towards the Unknown¨
¨
Suicidal Nightmare¨
¨
The King is Dead¨
¨
Burning Star¨
¨
To Sleep Per Chance to Scream¨
¨
The Plague Called Man¨
¨
Evil Reign¨
¨
Monarch of Bloodshed¨
¨
Winds of War¨
¨
Good Day to Die¨
¨
Wicked Disposition¨
¨
Pandemonium¨
¨
Bitter End¨
¨
Harker’s Tale (Mass of Death) ¨
¨
Angel of Death¨
¨
Baptized in Blood¨
¨
Alma Negra¨
¨
The King of Hell¨
¨
Run with the Pack¨
¨ This is a Houston- Texas
I suppose that’s useless to
speak about this whole power metal statement that our beloved Texans made with
this occasion; so… check on your own as soon as possible to see what all is
about in here!¨
Line-
up:
Larry Barragan: Guitar
Russel DeLeon: Drums
James Rivera (aka Bill
Lionel): Vocals
Jerry Abarca: Bass
Robert Treviño: Guitar
Rating:
Priceless
(LITOCRANIUS)
HELLDORADOS
(Germany
¨
Helldorados¨
13. 07. 2012
Full- length
Hard’ n’ Heavy
Massacre
Records
Total Playing Time: 41: 41
Playlist:
¨
In the Beginning¨
¨
Never Gonna Stop¨
¨
You Live, You Learn, You Die¨
¨
Go to Hell¨
¨
Changes¨
¨
Shout Out¨
¨
Hunter¨
¨
Double Dealer¨
¨
Gone¨
¨
Torture Is My Name¨
¨
Girls¨
¨
Got Laid¨
¨ This first album signed
Helldorados is precisely a bit like Hell: paved with good intentions but with a
final result as destructive as a Tomahawk missile. But the best intentions do
not always make great albums!
Good ideas, energy, a very
good production ... but also some songs too smooth or sanitized; the
Helldorados may lack a bit of practice ... Remains that their first album is
overall quite nice, if not memorable. ¨
Line-
up:
Gunnar- Bass
Chris- Drums
Steve- Guitar
Rating:
8/
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
STRIKER (Canada
¨ Armed to the Teeth¨
07. 07. 2012
Full- length
Speed Metal
Napalm Records
Total Playing Time: 40: 07
Playlist:
¨ Forever¨
¨ Let It Burn¨
¨ Lethal Force¨
¨ It Could Be Worse¨
¨ Fight for Your Life¨
¨ Land of the Lost¨
¨ Wolf Gang¨
¨ Feed My Fire¨
¨ All the Way¨
¨ Can't Stop the Rush¨
¨ Riffs galore, impeccable
melodic solos, a lot of fast songs and a vocal score absolutely amazing gives
us a pleasant feeling of what old school heavy- speed metal was about!!!
Without inventing anything new
for this millennium, Striker shows us a job which was well done and a fuckin’ heavy
tribute to the metal of the 80’s! ¨
Line- up:
Chris Segges- Guitar
Dave Arnold- Bass
Adam Brown- Drums
Ian Sandercock- Guitar
Dan Cleary- Chant
Rating:
8/ 10 (LITOCRANIUS)
SOUTHWICKED (U.S.A.
¨ Death’s Crown¨
06.
07. 2012
Full-
length
Death
Metal
Abyss Records
Total
Playing Time: 39: 47
Playlist:
¨ Intro/ The Massacre Begins¨
¨ Death's Crown¨
¨ Craving for Blood¨
¨ Killing Spree¨
¨ The Phantom Prince¨
¨ Graveyard of Bones¨
¨ Charming Karma¨
¨ Green River Killing Fields¨
¨ The Only Living Witness¨
¨
Featuring former Obituary and Six Feet Under guitarist Allen West and a couple
of Belgian musicians, Southwicked isn’t at all what we expected at the musical
level!
That’s
for sure death metal, but nothing that West used us with, and I for myself
can’t say this is bad in the end.
So…,
what we got here is a king of old Obituary at the guitar level, a groove
atmosphere and a singer extremely talented; in the end an interesting material
for the death metal fans and especially for those watching Alan’s carrer since
many years right now. ¨
Line- up:
Rock
Rollain- Bass
Marco
Vreven- Drums
Allen
West- Guitar
Sven
Poets- Vocals
Stef
Mikolajczyk- Rhythm Guitar
Rating:
8/ 10 (LITOCRANIUS)
SOUL SACRIFICE (Turkey
¨ Carpe Mortem¨
29. 06. 2012
Full- length
Death Metal
Massacre Records
Total Playing Time: 47: 07
Playlist:
¨ Requiem¨
¨ Bullet Proof¨
¨ Comatose¨
¨ OLB¨
¨ Keske¨
¨ Fly Forever (Pentagram Cover) ¨
¨ Society for Killing¨
¨ Torture My Soul¨
¨ Carpe Mortem¨
¨ Sarcastic Existence¨
¨ Exile¨
¨ Innovative death metal band from Turkey, an act playing a unique style
of music that is basically thrashy, but filled with death metal vokils into a
growl register, Soul Sacrifice propose to the whole extreme metal universe an
interesting album in which original riffage and memorable choruses seems to be the
main attraction point!¨
Line- up:
Özgür Özkan- Vocals/ Bass
Guitar
Feyzi Ocak- Guitars
Maksim Kırıkoğlu- Guitars
Onur Akça- Drums
Feyzi Ocak- Guitars
Maksim Kırıkoğlu- Guitars
Onur Akça- Drums
Rating:
9, 5/
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
SNAKESKIN
ANGELS (Sweden
¨
Witchchapel¨
26. 03. 2012
E.P.
Hard Rock
Demon
Worship Productions
Total Playing Time: 21: 26
Playlist:
¨
The Devil's Thrust¨
¨
Nightchild¨
¨
Threefaced Saviour¨
¨
Beneath Me¨
¨
Witchchapel¨
¨ When you have inside your
band members,
past or present, of well known acts such as Swordmaster, Taetre, and Domgård
the first thing that goes through your ming is what kind of apocalypse will
your ears going to suffer all along these 5 songs!
Not at all my friends.
Snakeskin Angels is a Satanic
retro hard rock ‘n’ roll combo and you’ll see on your own what all is about and
if you’re into this kind of music and if you love bands such as: The Devil’s
Blood or Ghost.¨
Line-
up:
Kallbrand- Bass
Graveyard- Drums
Grim Vindkall- Guitars
Daniel Kvist- Guitars
Thunderbolt- Vocals
Rating:
8/
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
SIN7SINS
(Holland
¨
Carnival of No Tomorrow¨
11. 05. 2012
Full- length
Gothic/ Dark Metal
S7S
Records
Total Playing Time: 45: 41
Playlist:
¨
Brimstone Ignition¨
¨
Sick of You¨
¨
Pornstar Love¨
¨
Shadows & Dust¨
¨
Carnivores at Carnival¨
¨
Pain Induced Craze¨
¨
As Romance Dies¨
¨
Cyanide Symphony¨
¨
Revolt Tonight! ¨
¨
Jenkins' Nightmare¨
¨
March to Ruin¨
¨ Generally heavy and
bombastic, with astral keys and huge female vocals, Holland’s Sin7sins ¨ Carnival
of No Tomorrow¨ introduce us a distinctive mix of dark/ pop music damn well
combined with sympho gothic metal; a little jewel on the metal market and a
must have for all of you fans of the darker side of adventurous gothic metal.¨
Line-
up:
Lotus- Vocals
Gen Morphine- Guitar/ Vocals
JD Acid- Keys
Tristan Hex- Bass
Heresy 101- Drums
Rating:
9/
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
SETH
(France
¨ Les Blessures des l’Ame¨
22. 06. 2012
Full- length (Re-Issue)
Black Metal
Season of Mist Records
Total Playing
Time: 01: 02: 03
Playlist:
¨ La Quintessence du Mal¨
¨ Hymne au Vampire (Acte
I) ¨
¨ Hymne au Vampire (Acte
II) … Vers une Nouvelle Ere¨
¨ Le Cercle de la
Renaissance¨
¨ Les Silences
d’Outre-tombe¨
¨ Dans les Yeux du
Serpent…¨
¨ ...A la Mémoire de nos
Frères¨
¨ Corpus et Anima (bonus)
¨
¨ Les Sévices de la Peste
(bonus) ¨
¨ There is no
much things to say about an album which established Seth as one of the French
black metal leading bands; try the re- issue of this awesome record and clap
your hands ‘cause Seth is back in business and more things is to come as soon
as possible!¨
Line- up:
Heimoth–
guitars
Cyriex– guitars
Black Messiah–
vocals
Helldryk– bass
Alsvid– drums
Rating:
Priceless (LITOCRANIUS)
SEGES
FINDERE (Brazil
¨
Dessemitize¨
13. 07. 2012
Full- length
Death/ Black Metal
Elegy
Records
Total Playing Time: 34: 36
Playlist:
¨
Prelude to Jerusalem
¨
Tales from the Demented False Prophet¨
¨
Counter-Islamic Terrorism¨
¨
Before the Shariah Subjugation¨
¨
Repulsing Episcopal Sodomites¨
¨
Genocide to the Abrahamic Subrace¨
¨
Overthrow the Menorah's Curse¨
¨
Holohoax, the Fancy of Morons¨
¨
Defile Levitic Kikes¨
¨ Apocalypse from the
beginning to the end will be the perfect description for this new opus signed
Seges Findere; a death/ black musical content extremely dark and full of
anti-Semitic messages as you will see when you’re getting this masterpiece
coming from Brazil!¨
Line-
up:
Sturmer- Drums (Session)
Strigoi- Vocals/ Guitar/
Bass
Rating:
8/
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
SAMOTHARCE
(U.S.A.
¨ Reverence to Stone¨
31. 07. 2012
Full- length
Stoner/ Crust/
Doom Metal
20 Buck Spin Records
Total Playing
Time: 34: 48
Playlist:
¨ When We Emerged¨
¨ A Horse of Our Own¨
¨ Desolate
drone of stoner/ doom metal with some melodically but slower lines, interesting
vocal score mixing various vocal timbres and 2 incredible long songs that’s
what Samothrace is offering
you this year!
Mournful
disposition fans will be absolutely amazed by this last release coming from Seattle Samothrace . ¨
Line- up:
Dylan Desmond-
Bass
Brian Spinks-
Guitar/ Vocals
Renata
Castagna- Guitars
Joe Axler-
Drums
Rating:
8/ 10 (LITOCRANIUS)
ROCKING CORPSES (Finland
¨ Rock n’ Rott¨
13. 07. 2012
Full- length
Death Rock
Abyss Records
Total Playing Time:
44: 40
Playlist:
¨ Intro – Into the Grave¨
¨ Up from the Grave¨
¨ Necropolis¨
¨ For Better for Worse¨
¨ Take a Whiskey¨
¨ Life for a Life¨
¨ 925¨
¨ Rocking Corpses¨
¨ In the Dead of Night¨
¨ Necrophiliacs¨
¨ Dead End¨
¨ A combination
of Rock, Death Metal and Horror themes could be interesting if the band is
involved a 100% into the musical current. Imagine AC/ DC, Motorhead, Entombed or
Pungent Stench mixed with a southern blues feeling and you’ll get the approximate
image of what Rocking Corpses deals with!¨
Line- up:
Tony D.K. - Dirty Vocals/ Guitars
Leper Laze- Clean vocals/ Bass
Vile- Drums
Rating:
8, 5/ 10 (LITOCRANIUS)
RADIATION SICKNESS (U.S.A.
¨ Reflections of a Psychotic Past¨
22. 06. 2012
Full- length
Death Metal
Abyss Records
Total Playing Time:
37: 18
Playlist:
¨ Reflections of a Psychotic Past¨
¨ Demented Love Song 2¨
¨ Tripping in the Seas of Madness¨
¨ I Stand for Nothing¨
¨ Graveside View¨
¨ The Place Where People Die¨
¨ Erif Ti Pu¨
¨ The Other Me¨
¨ Disfigured Retard¨
¨ Ruthless¨
¨ Man Made Production¨
¨ No Future¨
¨ Escape to Insanity¨
¨ Malignant Existence¨
¨ No Chance of Hope¨
¨ For No Apparent Motive¨
¨ Sealed Away¨
¨ Demented Love Song¨
¨ Bounds of Reality¨
¨ Heavy
and crushing riffs, good drums and a vocal register
from the underworld is quite a good debut thinking that this is only the first
full- length in band’s over 25 years of career!
Newer songs and
the older ones gives hand in hand to present us what Radiation Sickness knows
to do best, and honestly is hard to say what will be new or old in here. ¨
Line- up:
Byron Holton-
Bass/ Vocals
Mike Herald-
Drums/ Vocals
Tom Ball-
Guitars
Doug Palmer-
Vocals
Rating:
8/ 10 (LITOCRANIUS)
WINTERFYLLETH
(U.K.
¨
The Threnody of Triumph¨
10. 09. 2012
Full- length
Pagan Black Metal
Candlelight
Records
Total Playing Time: 01: 05: 06
Playlist:
¨
A Thousand Winters¨
¨
The Swart Raven¨
¨
Aefterield Freon¨
¨
A Memorial¨
¨
The Glorious Plain¨
¨
A Soul Unbound¨
¨
Void of Light¨
¨
The Fate of Souls After Death¨
¨
Home Is Behind¨
¨
The Threnody of Triumph¨
¨ Dark epic old school
black metal in its purest form, probably the next big thing coming from U.K.,
Winterfylleth’s 3rd opus to Candlelight offers you a unique musical
content in which repetitive themes find no place!¨
Line-
up:
Christopher Naughton-
Guitars/Vocals
Simon Lucas- Drums
Nick Wallwork- Bass/Backing
Vocals
Mark Wood- Lead Guitar
Rating:
8/
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
WINDFAERER
(U.S.A.
¨
Solar¨
10. 07. 2012
E.P.
Folk Black Metal
Independent
Release
Total Playing Time: 36: 23
Playlist:
¨
The Mortal Flare¨
¨
A Glimpse of Light¨
¨
Worlds of the Self¨
¨
Blackened Voids¨
¨
A Moura Encantada¨
¨
In the Shadow of Giants¨
¨
The Morning Star¨
¨ Stellar folk black metal
release coming from the United States
Line-
up:
John Paul Andrade- Drums
Michael Gonçalves- Vocals,
Guitars, Bass
Benjamin Karas- Violin
Rating:
8, 5/
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
VOLKSMETAL
(Germany
¨
Volksmetal¨
03. 08. 2012
Full- length
Folk Metal
Premium
Records
Total Playing Time: 37: 09
Playlist:
¨
Da Deifel Is a Oachkatzerl¨
¨
Da Maeddelbaenger¨
¨
Fuerstenfeld¨
¨
Geh Lass Ma Mei Ruah¨
¨ Bayer¨
¨ Brutaler Modelwahn¨
¨ Mausig Schaut Mei Alte Aus¨
¨
Saeuferjodler¨
¨
Kuess die Hand Herr Kerkermeister¨
¨
Die Oide Goass¨
¨
O'Zapft Is¨
¨
Volksmetal Thema¨
¨ Fairly
limited target base although we’re talking about folk metal, Volksmetal’s ¨
Volksmetal¨ is pretty quite interesting as musical content for an open minded
metaller; so… try it on your own to see what all is about!¨
Line-
up:
Marco Gregor- Voice,
Accordeon
Christian Haeberlein- Drum
Martin Ibele- Bass
Patrick Bayernhammer- Guitar
Martin Bottlinger- Tuba
Rating:
8/
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
USURPRESS
(Sweden
¨
Trenches of the Netherworld¨
28. 06. 2012
Full- length
Death Metal
Selfmadegod
Records
Total Playing Time: 34: 14
Playlist:
¨
Black Death on White Wings¨
¨
Effigies Burns across the Wastelands¨
¨
Coronation of the Crippled King¨
¨
The Wooden Sceptre¨
¨
The Colours of Darkness¨
¨
Trenches of the Netherworld¨
¨
The God Eaters¨
¨
In the Beginning (Ended Yesterday) ¨
¨
Dethroned by Shadows¨
¨
I Stand Above Time¨
¨
Seduction through Bloodshed¨
¨ A death metal album with
crust influences, good vocals a bit punk influenced and a very interesting band
which features well known bass player Daniel Ekeroth the one that stands behind
¨ Swedish Death Metal¨ metal encyclopaedia! ¨
Line-
up:
Daniel Ekeroth- Bass
Calle Andersson- Drums
Påhl Sundström- Guitars
Stefan Pettersson- Vocals
Rating:
8/
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
UNCONSECRATED
(Spain
¨
Awakening the Cemetery Grave¨
06. 2012
Compilation
Death Metal
Chaos
Records
Total Playing Time: 01: 11: 55
Playlist:
¨
Intro¨
¨
Buried in the Crypt¨
¨
Exhumating Profaned Flesh¨
¨
Slave to the Grave¨
¨
Breath of Desolation¨
¨
Path of the Ancient Gods¨
¨
Dark Awakening¨
¨
Over the Throne¨
¨ Temple of Darkness¨
¨
Descending Into the Abyss¨
¨
Tombs of Fallen Angels¨
¨
Recremated by the Sunlight¨
¨
Journey into the Crypts of the Dead¨
¨
Morbid Dawn of the Deceased¨
¨
Unconsecrated Cemetery¨
¨
Recently Deceased¨
¨
The Curse of Evocation¨
¨
Dead Forever (Unleashed Cover) ¨
¨ A kick in the ass
compilation filled with good old school Swedish death metal stuff just to
remind us the good old times!!!¨
Line-
up:
Jacobo- Drums
Dave Devour- Guitars
Overlord- Guitars, Bass
Rating:
8/10
(LITOCRANIUS)
TO/
DIE/ FOR (Finland
¨
Samsara¨
27. 07. 2012
Full- length
Alternative Gothic Rock
Metal
Massacre
Records
Total Playing Time: 51: 44
Playlist:
¨
Kissing the Flames¨
¨
Damned Rapture¨
¨
Cry for Love¨
¨
Death Comes in March¨
¨
Folie á Deux¨
¨
Hail of Bullets¨
¨
Love´s a Sickness¨
¨
Raving Hearts¨
¨
Oblivion: Vision¨
¨
Someday Somewhere Somehow¨
¨
Bonus track: Lovesong¨
¨ Super strong metal album
and a very interesting voyage through band’s musical universe; very emotional
and catchy, filled with good riffs and melodies ¨ Samsara¨ tries to
rehabilitate this Finnish band in front of its fans! ¨
Line-
up:
Jape Von Crow- Vocals
Antti- Matti Talala- Guitar
Juppe Sutela- Guitar
Eza Viren- Bass
Juska Salminen- Keys
Matti Huopainen- Drums
Rating:
8, 5/
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
THE
PROPHECY 23 (Germany
¨
Green Machine Laser Beam¨
29. 06. 2012
Full- length
Thrash- Death Metal
Massacre
Records
Total Playing Time: 46: 28
Playlist:
¨
Tough Cool and Here to Mosh¨
¨ Ice Road
¨
Don't Step Back¨
¨
Beyond the Purple Pipes¨
¨
Green Machine Laser Beam¨
¨
Sergeant P of the 23¨
¨
We Are the Pit Police¨
¨
Wake Me Up for Lunch¨
¨
Honor to Whom, Honor Is Due¨
¨
Captain Quick and the Pirates¨
¨
Call Your Friends to Hang Out¨
¨
Don't Waste Time, Get Wasted (Now!)¨
¨
No Beer, What a Mess¨
¨
No Followers No Leaders¨
¨
Princess of Gorleben¨
¨
Guts Gore Reactor (Live) ¨
¨ Hard-kicking thrashing
metal with a brutal sound, some death core lines and incredible vocal score
here you have a list of ingredient of what will be the big step forward of one
of the most promising thrash- death metal bands coming from Germany!¨
Line-
up:
Phil- Growl Vocals
Johannes Klopprogge- Vocals
/ Guitars
Mario- Bass
Dennis Lidak- Guitars
Florian Sanden- Drums
Rating:
8, 5/
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
THE
ORDER (Switzerland
¨
1986¨
27. 07. 2011
Full- length
Hard Rock
Massacre
Records
Total Playing Time: 44: 06
Playlist:
¨
The Power of Love¨
¨
Long Live Rock’n’Roll¨
¨
Generation White Line¨
¨
Lonely Nights¨
¨
Fire It Up¨
¨
A Kiss under the Rain¨
¨
Damn Hot Chick¨
¨
Heartbreaking Rebel Blood¨
¨
Why Dreaming Hollywood¨
¨
Stop Lying in the Name of Love¨
¨ Classic heartbreaking
hard rock with heavy metal lines, that’s the whole idea behind this incisive
album signed The Order! An absolute must have for the die hard collectors of
the hard rock music!!! ¨
Line-
up:
Gianni Pontillo- Vocals
Andrej Abplanalp- Bass
Mauro Casciero- Drums
Rating:
8, 5/
10 (LITOCRANIUS)
THE
FORSAKEN (Sweden
¨ Beyond Redemption¨
29. 06. 2012
Full- length
Melodic Death
Metal
Massacre Records
Total Playing
Time: 40: 43
Playlist:
¨ Beyond Redemption¨
¨ Only Hell Remains¨
¨ Foul Messianic Grace¨
¨ No Dawn Awaits¨
¨ There Is No God¨
¨ As We Burn¨
¨ As We Have Sown¨
¨ The Light Divine¨
¨ Force Fed Repentance¨
¨ Blessed with Wrath¨
¨ ¨ Beyond
Redemption¨ is a very good death metal release, an album which reassures through
the energy released which shows a band that does not acknowledge the weight of
years that have passed! ¨
Line- up:
Stefan Berg-
Bass
Calle Fäldt-
Guitars (rhythm), Vocals (backing)
Anders Sjöholm-
Vocals
Alf Patrik
Persson- Guitars, Vocals (backing)
Nicke
Grabowski- Drums
Rating:
9/ 10 (LITOCRANIUS)
TANKARD (Germany
¨ A
Girl Called Cerveza¨
27. 07. 2012
Full- length
Thrash Metal
Nuclear
Blast Records
Total Playing Time: 50: 14
Playlist:
¨ Running
on Fumes¨
¨ A
Girl Called Cerveza¨
¨ Witchhunt
2.0¨
¨ Masters
of Farces¨
¨ The
Metal Lady Boy (ft. Doro
¨ Not
One Day Dead (But One Day Mad) ¨
¨ Son
of a Fridge¨
¨ Fandom
at Random¨
¨ Metal
Magnolia¨
¨ Rapid
Fire (a Tyrant's Elegy) ¨
¨ Tankard for sure is a band
who aged damn well, thinking that they founded the band back in 1982, and ¨ A Girl
Called Cerveza¨ shows us probably one of the best materials ever released by this
German combo!¨
Line-
up:
Frank Thorwarth- Bass
Gerre- Vocals
Olaf Zissel- Drums
Andy Gutjahr- Guitars
Rating:
8/ 10
(LITOCRANIUS)
ZATOKREV
(Swiss) NEW
¨
The Bat, the Wheel and a Long Road to Nowhere¨
23. 08. 2012
Full- length
Sludge Doom/ Death Metal
Candlelight
Records
Total Playing Time: 01: 16: 12
Playlist:
¨
Goddamn Lights¨
¨
9¨
¨
Rodeo with Snakes¨
¨
Medium¨
¨
The Wheel¨
¨
Feel the Fire Pt.1¨
¨
Feel the Fire Pt.2¨
¨
The Bat¨
¨
Angels of Cross¨
¨ Depressive heavy sludge doom/
death metal full of emotion and despair, a mournful musical document which delivers
a fucking awesome doom metal drone only for the fans of the genre!!!¨
Line-
up:
Lucas Löw- Bass, Vocals
(backing)
Frédéric Hug- Drums
Julien Duseyau- Guitars
Frederyk Rotter- Vocals,
Guitars (2002-present)
Rating:
7, 5/ 10
(LITOCRANIUS)
CEROSITY
(Spain
¨ Eyeless Mass Corruption¨
06.02.2012 (E.P.)
Thrash – Death Metal
Independent Release
Total Playing Time: 24: 30
¨ Crushing death metal
highly influenced by Pestilence or At the Gates but with vocal reminiscent from
old Carcass would be the last interesting extreme musical offer hailing from Spain
Playlist:
¨
Drives to Insanity¨
¨
Usurper of Souls¨
¨
Dead in My Dreams¨
¨
Confronting the False¨
¨
Brainless Bastards from Hell¨
Review by LITOCRANIUS (8/ 10)
ACID
DEATH (Greece
¨ Eidolon¨
16.04.2012 (Full- length)
Progressive Tharsh- Death
Metal
Noisehead Records
Total Playing Time: 49: 21
¨ Interesting mixture of
Death, early Cynic and Atheist (without the jazzy elements of course) and a vocal
score close to Pantera combined with some screaming elements; ¨ Eidolon¨ sure
is one of the greatest releases of this year, mostly because Acid Death is back
in business after a long hiatus period and the guys must recover the lost time!
¨
Playlist:
¨
Blind Reflection¨
¨
Crossing the Line¨
¨
Towards Hate¨
¨
Convict 655321¨
¨
Inside My Walls¨
¨
No Sky Above¨
¨
Eidolon¨
¨
Odious Maggots¨
¨
Dying Alone¨
¨
Sole Truth¨
Review by LITOCRANIUS (9/ 10)
AGRESIVA
(Spain
¨
Eternal Foe¨
12.03.2012 (Full- length)
Independent Release
Total Playing Time: 41: 48
¨ Bringing in front of its
listeners a musical combination between Megadeth, old Anthrax and Lazarus A.D.,
Agresiva surprise the whole mainstream with a vocal score close to Danish power
metal band Iron Fire's singer Martin Steene or Joey Belladonna speaking
Spanish!¨
Playlist:
¨
Nocturnia¨
¨
Pale Horse (Red D´eath) ¨
¨
Hell Town¨
¨
The Glorius Revolution¨
¨
The End of the Game¨
¨
Eternal Foe¨
¨
Sent to War¨
¨
If¨
¨
Betrayed¨
Review by LITOCRANIUS (8/ 10)
BONDED
BY BLOOD (U.S.A.
¨
The Aftermath¨
02.07.2012 (Full- length)
Thrash Metal
Earache Records
Total Playing Time: 45: 41
¨ Considered to be just a ¨
copy- paste band¨ of well known monsters Exodus, Bonded by Blood succeeded to
create a sound of their own with this new masterpiece called ¨ The Aftermath¨
and of course with the help of its new singer Mauro Gonzales!¨
Playlist:
¨
I Can't Hear You¨
¨
Shepherds of Rot¨
¨
The Aftermath¨
¨
Crawling in the Shadows¨
¨
In a Wake¨
¨
Repulsive¨
¨
Among the Vultures¨
¨
Show No Fear¨
¨
Restless Mind¨
¨
Left Behind¨
¨
Killing in the Name¨
Review by LITOCRANIUS (8, 5/ 10)
BLACKLODGE
(France)
¨
MachinatioN¨
22.06.2012 (Full- length)
Industrial Black Metal
Season of Mist Records
Total Playing Time: 47: 41
¨ Being in
business since a while, the French industrial black metal band Blacklodge
finaly has its word in this extreme metal area with the new opus called ¨
MachinatioN¨; a combination of beats that remind about Godflesh and some quitar
riffs closer to Marduk than anyone else, probably is the most
literal interpretation of the industrial black metal sound we’ve seen in the
last years or so!¨
Playlist:
¨ TridenT¨
¨ NeutroN ShivA (Sun, Walk
with Me!)¨
¨ Neo.Black.Magic¨
¨ Industrial Temple MysticA¨
¨ Antichrist Ex Machina¨
¨ Order of the Baphomet¨
¨ Empire's Hymn¨
¨ All Seeing Eye¨
¨ Culto al Sol(SolarKult)¨
¨ The Other Side¨
Review by LITOCRANIUS (8, 5/ 10)
BLACKSPELL
(Syria
¨
With Seasons to Wither¨
31.12.2011
Melodic Death- Black Metal
Extreminal Production
Total Playing Time: 30: 46
¨ This is Arabian atmospheric
black metal, and probably the best material of its kind ever released from that
side of the world!
Comprehensively saturated
with symphonic aspects and overtures, the Blackspell sound is a funereal sound of organs,
atonal guitar heralds and choral voices completed with a cold screaming score
raised from hell!¨
Playlist:
¨ Amidst
the Nightly Mass ¨
¨
The Beauty of My Sorrow¨
¨
Episode : Death¨
¨
Witches Hill¨
¨
With Seasons to Wither¨
Review by LITOCRANIUS (8, 5/ 10)
BLOOD
OF THE BLACK OWL (U.S.A.
¨ Light the Fires! ¨
2012 (Full- length)
Funeral Black- Doom Metal
Bindrune Recordings
Total Playing Time: 01: 13: 16
¨ Blood of the Black Owl
has created something spectacular and other worldly here with its last creation
entitled ¨ Light the Fires¨, a doom metal music in which distorted and acoustic
guitars are well emphasized by sparse drums, vocal harmonies, throat singing,
all anchored with a tribal atmosphere and ongoing sense of tranquillity.¨
Playlist:
¨
Caller of Spirits¨
¨
Wind Eye¨
¨
Rise and Shine¨
¨
Sundrojan¨
¨
Two Ravens at the Tree Line¨
¨
Soil Magicians¨
¨
Disgust and the Horrible Realization of Apathy¨
Review by LITOCRANIUS (8, 5/ 10)
69
CHAMBERS (Swiss)
¨
Torque¨
27.04.2012 (Full- length)
Heavy Rock
Massacre Records
Total Playing Time: 01: 04: 00
¨ A delight from beginning to end, it is varied,
punchy and full of emotion,
¨ Torque¨ is a very interesting album, for a group
that is equally important.
69 Chambers knows successfully to mix different
musical styles, and manages to make us cling to this scathing and well built product
which is way better than the previous one called ¨ War on the Inside¨!¨
Playlist:
¨ Cause and
Effect¨
¨ Bring on the
Flood¨
¨ Naughty,
Naughty, Naughty¨
¨ Anhedonia¨
¨ Burn some
Gasoline¨
¨ The Peep Hole¨
¨ Ring a Bell¨
¨ Closure¨
¨ And then there
Was Silence¨
¨ Temple Down¨
¨ Your Fool¨
¨ The Doom of
Her Power¨
¨ Grace (Jeff
Buckley Cover) ¨
¨ Elegy¨
Review by LITOCRANIUS
(8, 5/ 10)
AFFLICTION GATE
(France
¨ Shattered
Illusions Ante Mortem¨
07. 2012
Old School Death Metal
Metal Inquisition Records
Total Playing Time: 14: 07
¨ The new MCD ¨ Shattered Illusions Ante Mortem¨ of
the French group AFFLICTION GATE is now available and it offers you a 3 tracks
& outro classic Death Metal sound of the late 80's / early 90's play- list
but full of other surprises like the participation of Eric Daniels (former
ASPHYX, GRAND SUPREME BLOODCULT) and Rogga Johansson (ex-EDGE OF SANITY, PAGANIZER).
If band’s last material called ¨ Aeon of Nox (From
Darkness Come Liberation) ¨ was very appreciated, you better be sure that the
new one will be the step forward needed to become one of the leading French
death metal bands from the new era!¨
Playlist:
¨ Memories of
Battlefield¨
¨ Aftermath
Curse¨
¨ Raven ...
Never Again¨
¨ Omega¨
Review by LITOCRANIUS
(9/ 10)
AHAB (Germany
¨ The Giant¨
25. 04. 2012 (Full- length)
Funeral Doom Records
Napalm Records
Total Playing Time: 01:
00: 59
¨ ¨ The Giant¨ is an extraordinary album, expanding and undulating like the tides, and
with the crushing prowess of the ocean itself. They have unleashed their
strongest Kraken yet, and it’s murderously magnificent.
Highly recommended to everyone
swimming in the seas of funeral doom metal and finding something refreshing,
relaxing, and heavy in the same time!¨
Playlist:
¨ Further
South¨
¨ Aeons
Elapse¨
¨ Deliverance
(Shouting at the Dead) ¨
¨ Antarctica
the Polymorphess¨
¨ Fathoms
Deep Below¨
¨ The
Giant¨
Review by LITOCRANIUS (8, 5/ 10)
BORGNE (Swiss)
¨ Royaume des Ombres¨
06. 2012
Black Metal
Sepulchral Productions
Total Playing Time : 59 : 54
¨ Fascinating, inspired, perfectly
played and very well produced, ¨Royaume des Ombres¨ is a marvellous jewel that
I highly recommend, if not already done so, to discover!
¨ Royaume Des Ombres¨ is a
great album creating dark and murky landscapes and invites the listener to
visit them. I would definitely characterize this as one of the best releases in
the nowadays depressive Black Metal scene. If you are a fan of this genre get
it now! ¨
Playlist:
¨ Fall
of the Lost Souls¨
¨ Suffer
as I Paid My Grave¨
¨ In
the Realm of the Living I'm Dead¨
¨ Only
the Dead Can Be Heard¨
¨ All
These Screams through Me¨
¨ The
Last Thing You Will See¨
Review by LITOCRANIUS (8/ 10)
CANDLEMASS
(Sweden
¨ Psalms for the Dead¨
08. 06. 2012
Doom Metal
Napalm Records
Total Playing Time:
50: 13
¨ ¨ Psalms for the Dead¨ has been earmarked as the final studio album for Candlemass.
The wait is feverish; one
can only imagine an artistic firework, a huge opus to close this superb
recording career.
¨ Psalms for the Dead¨ is
entirely consistent with what I expected: a varied album, inspired, brilliantly
interpreted, with diverse tempos, heavy with aspects of the present metal music
and very high quality solos. For the sauce definitely take, we had a production
at the height, and this is the case, it proving to be powerful and
balanced.
In short, it is not with ¨ Psalms
for the Dead¨ that Candlemass will disappoint us; this album is a success for
the group and more proving to be a landmark work.
As such, I recommend you
highly to get it! ¨
Playlist:
¨ Prophet¨
¨ The
Sound of Dying Demons¨
¨ Dancing
in the Temple
¨ Waterwitch¨
¨ The
Lights of Thebes¨
¨ Psalms
for the Dead¨
¨ The
Killing of the Sun¨
¨ Siren
Song¨
¨ Black
as Time¨
Review by LITOCRANIUS (8, 5/ 10)
VESPERIAN
SORROW (U.S.A.
¨
Stormwinds of Ages¨
24.04.2012 (Full- length)
Symphonic Black Death Metal
The Path less Travelled
Records
Total Playing Time: 57:17
¨ If you’re still missing
Emperor’s ¨ Prometheus: Of Fire & Demise¨, Cradle of Filth’s ¨ Midian¨ or
Dimmu Borgir’s ¨ Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia¨, than Vesperian Sorrow’s
new opus called ¨ Stormwinds of Ages¨ is the perfect instrument to unleash the best
inside you; a musical testament that can easily stand tall alongside the best
ever materials of symphonic black death metal area, and probably the last BIG
THING released in this metal mainstream in the latest years! ¨
Playlist:
¨
Sanguis Vitam Est¨
¨
Stormwinds of Ages¨
¨
An Empire to Mourn¨
¨
Casting Dawn into a Shadow¨
¨
Crown of Glass¨
¨
Legacies Befallen¨
¨
Eye of the Clock Tower¨
¨
Oracle from the Ashes¨
¨
Relics of the Impure¨
¨
Death She Cried¨
¨
Of Opiates and Accolades¨
Review by LITOCRANIUS (9/ 10)
¨
At the Gates of Sethu¨
29.06.2012 (Full-
length)
Death Metal
Nuclear Blast Records
Total Playing Time: 47:33
¨ The American crushing
death metal machine controls its brutality with great timing and guitar work as
never before; the tightest and most meticulous opus ever released, even if it
isn’t as explosive as band’s previous materials worthy to remember here!¨
Playlist:
¨
Enduring the Eternal Molestation of Flame¨
¨
The Fiends who Come to Steal the Magick of the Deceased¨
¨
The Inevitable Degradation of Flesh¨
¨
When My Wrath Is Done¨
¨
Slaves of Xul¨
¨
The Gods who Light Up the Sky at the Gate of Sethu¨
¨
Natural Liberation of Fear through the Ritual Deception of Death¨
¨
Ethno-Musicological Cannibalisms¨
¨
Tribunal of the Dead¨
¨
Supreme Humanism of Megalomania¨
¨
The Chaining of the Iniquitous¨
¨
Enduring the Eternal Molestation of Flame (instrumental version/ bonus) ¨
¨
The Inevitable Degradation of Flesh (instrumental version/ bonus) ¨
Review by LITOCRANIUS (9/ 10)
DEMON
LUNG (U.S.A.
¨
Pareidolia¨
20.03.2012 (E.P.)
Stoner Doom Metal
Independent Release
Total Playing Time: 21:57
¨ If you’re searching for a
metal musical opera, than we can say that Demon Lung from Las Vegas offers you
an unexpected possibility to hear 4 excellent laden stoner doom metal songs; an
interesting musical content that, although it doesn’t bring something new on
the metal scene, could easily help you to forget superstars such as: Saint
Vitus, Candlemass or the British Sacrilege! ¨
Playlist:
¨
Lament Code¨
¨
Sour Ground¨
¨
Death Mask¨
¨
Pareidolia¨
Review by LITOCRANIUS (8/10)
ALTAR
OF SIN (Spain
¨
Tales of Carnage First Class¨
01.03.2012(Full- length)
Thrash Death Metal
Xtreem Music
Total Playing Time: 32:07
¨ Relentless old fashioned
thrash death metal highly influenced by the U.S. combos such as: Possessed, Slayer
and Exodus or the French Massacre, Altar of Sin ¨ Tales of Carnage First Class¨
could be one of the most interesting materials of its kind in this 2012 year;
an extreme metal tornado which combines brutal riffs and solos with a groove
atmosphere extremely heavy and well emphasized by grunting vocal scores, a must
have for all of you involved in this musical metal area! ¨
Playlist:
¨
Master Satan¨
¨
Wrapped in a Black Cloak¨
¨
Metal Massacre¨
¨ Soul Exciter¨
¨ Caligula¨
Review by LITOCRANIUS (8, 5/ 10)
SIX
FEET UNDER (U.S.A.
¨Undead¨
22.05.2012(Full- length)
Groove Death’n’Roll
Metal Blade Records
Total Playing Time: 40:13
¨ After highly acclaimed
divers materials, Six Feet Under manage to propose to its fans probably the
best album ever recorded under this patronymic; a death metal release which
redefines this musical extreme term and something that can easily be identified
by overlapping band first opuses but with a mixture of modern elements and a
high class production never seen before to any death metal full length!
So…, what you got here is a
fresh collection of splendid songs in which guttural & deranged vocals
meets razor old school guitar solos & riffs damn well combined with
extraordinaire kick ass drums delivered by the new player Kevin Talley an ex. Chimaira
or Dying Fetus drummer!¨
Playlist:
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Frozen at the Moment of Death¨
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Formaldehyde¨
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18 Days¨
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Molest Dead¨
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Blood on My Hands¨
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Missing Victims¨
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Reckless¨
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Near Death Experience¨
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The Scar¨
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Delayed Combustion Device¨
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Vampire Apocalypse¨
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The Depths of Depravity¨
Review by LITOCRANIUS (9/ 10)
