Featuring horrific cover art and perhaps even more horrific, a malignant sound combining brutal thrash, grindcore and black metal that was rarely heard, Holocausto made it’s way through the tape trading circuit in 1987 with their debut Campo de Exterminio which still stands as one of Brazil’s most violent and controversial albums to date. This [...]
A nice dose of some Swedish melodic death metal for your Saturday afternoon.
Album: Death Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast
Year: 1997
Since its birth in the 80’s, the Death Metal genre has taken all kinds of turns and has branched out in several directions. In 2008 there are many different subcategories of the Death Metal genre. From Melodic Death to Technical Death, this loud and ferocious style that came from grungey bar basements in England and [...]
A week or so ago I was introduced to the label Canonical Hours, which is a U.S. based record company with a focus on extreme metal. I have received three albums they have been promoting and all three are quite incredible. I have already reviewed The Day of the Beast’s selt titled album which can [...]
Album: Come Death
Label: Earache Records
Year: 2007
Here are some albums from the last few months that we’ve missed…
1. All Shall Perish - Awaken The Dreamers
Oakland, CA Deathcore stars, All Shall Perish, have released their third album in 2008 and it follows right in the footsteps of their previous release, The Price Of Existance. Awaken The Dreamers takes the style of [...]
1. Norma Jean - The Anti Mother (2008)
I have heard many bad things about this album, in fact, after initially listening to a couple of songs, I wrote this album off as another melodic metalcore assraping. However, for this review, sitting down at my computer and thoroughly listening to the Anti Mother, I have [...]
Krisiun will be hitting Canadian provinces extensively throughout the entire months of October and November along with Talamyus and Leng Tch’e.
10/23 L’agitè – Quebec City, QC
10/26 Musik Box – Mont-joli, QC
10/28 Manhattan Tavern – Moncton, NB
10/29 Reflections Cabaret – [...]
Album: The Way of All Flesh
Label:Relapse Records/Listenable Records
Year: 2008
Finally, the critically acclaimed live album from Peaceville (yes, Opeth had a career before they were on Roadrunner!) is being released on DVD Oct 20th. To help spread the word, Peaceville has set up a mini-site devoted to this DVD, which contains a trailer, pictures, interviews, soundbytes, desktop wallpapers, etc. I highly enjoyed their first [...]
