Asphyx / Hooded Menace - Split 7" Ep (2011)

1. Asphyx - We Doom You To Death

2. Hooded Menace - Abode Of The Grotesque

Origin - Netherlands & Finland
Style - Death/Doom Metal

" Here we have another badass 7" from the killer label Doomentia Records...Featuring two of my personal favorite bands with exclusive new tracks "

" First off is Asphyx...Let me tell you when I hear Martin's voice on this it is just awesome..No other voice like his in Metal today...Pure Agony ! As far as the track?....Pure crushing Death/Doom at its finest !.....Catchy...Memorable...And produced by Dan Swano.....Its only a single track(Fuck)But its killer "

" Secondly is Hooded Menace from Joensuu,Finland...And surely one of the best bands of this genre. Lasse Pyykko has a knack for writing doomy but melodic songs that are both heavy and memorable and this one is no different....Actually this song is fucken killer with a melodicness to it that just kills me everytime ! "

So there you go....An absolutely mandatory 7" available in Black or Picture vinyl from the already mentioned Doomentia Records....Go and buy it !

Vinyl is Final......
Get It?......

Hail of Bullets - On Divine Winds (2010)

1. The Eve Of Battle

2. Operation Z 

3. The Mukden Incident
4. Strategy Of Attrition
5. Full Scale War
6. Guadalcanal
7. On Choral Shores
8. Unsung Heroes
9. Tokyo Napalm Holocaust 
10. Kamikaze
11. To Bear The Unbearable

Origin - Netherlands
Style - Death Metal

" Well......Here we have the 2nd full-length from the war mongers Hail Of Bullets....Featuring...Ahh fuck it..You know who's in this band...On to the album ! "

" Last time the album was placed in the war at the eastern front in germany....This time the war in the pacific..And the threat of the Japanese empire expanding..only to be crushed in the end.
Now a band with this pedigree and the production by Mr. Dan Swano has to be great right?...Oh hell yes !!.....You just cannot teach this sort of power and unstoppable force that is H.O.B. "

" If Blood & Guts Death Metal played by top musicians and raw vocals is your thing....Just buy this when it comes out....Period. For one thing...You cannot get a more crushing and crisp production than that of 'On Divine Winds" absolutely devastating. Goddamn catchy riff after riff and the notorious vocals of one Martin Van Drunen. One thing missing from most of the new Death Metal releases is a groove or memorable riff....Here you have plenty...Take the fantastic 'The Mukden Incident' or 'On Choral Shores' with its doomy atmosphere "

" I remembered more about this record after one spin than I have about the last 50 Lps combined !.......The best album I have heard this year !

If you miss Bolt Thrower's type of pounding Death Metal......Hail Of Bullets is here to take the war to you !......Believe it !

Raw !.......Barbaric !.......Essential !
Now Get It!

Massive Assault - Dystopian Prophecies (2009)

1. Forever War

2. Come With Me

3. World Destruction 
4. Weigh Up
5. Man-Kind!?
6. O.S.D.M. 
7. Swallow My Venom
8. The Rival Believer 
9. Dystopian Prophecies

Origin - Netherlands
Style - Death Metal

" Debut full length from this Dutch powerhouse"

" Stylistically Massive Assault are still knee-deep into early Nineties Swedish death metal, with pioneers like Entombed, Dismember but also Dutch bands like Asphyx having left an impact on their sound. Apart from the slightly longer title track which concludes the CD, we get a constant onslaught of death metal pieces that run between three and four minutes "

" Massive Assault don’t like to complicate things, preferring instead to play things the hard and rough way. Switching skilfully between mid-tempo grooves and faster old school riffing, Dystopian Prophecies manages to entertain from beginning to end, but honestly, you won’t find any original ideas on this record "

See you in the grave fuckers.......
Get It!...

Judgement Day - Pathology Of Crowding - Demo (1994)

1. Pathology Of Crowding

2. Penitential Sermon

3. Clouds Of Mordor

4. Daily Rituals... Until

5. F.O.D. (Slaughter cover)

Origin - Netherlands
Style - Death/Thrash Metal

" 3rd demo from the crew from Gelderland,Holland "

" Underrated would be the word that describes Judgement Day....They just ever got the press that alot of other inferior acts got in the early to mid 90s.This demo brings more Death than thrash..But the thrash elements are still there..As in up-tempo beats and some blasting...But its the guitars that made this tape kill "

" "Clouds of Mordor"and the titletrack, are really like a kick in the face. Judgement day play at times at the speed of some newer Thrash metal bands, but still I would call them old style death metal. It's like if you take a few parts from Sadus, Kreator... and put in some really fast and angry Death Metal, then you get judgement day "

A band all you Death/Thrash fans should check out !......Great shit......


Smoke em..If You Got em !......GeT It!
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Creepmime - Chiaroscuro (1995)

1. The Colour Still Unwinds
2. Scarlet Man
3. In The Flesh
4. Clarity
5. Diced
6. Chiaroscuro
7. Black Widower
8. Fools Paradise
9. King of Misrule
10. God's Thoughts

Origin - Netherlands
Style - Death Metal

" After nailing down a great doom/death opus with their debut full-length, these talented Dutchmen decided to try other fields, and here comes "Chiaroscuro"with its sophisticated technical thrash/death, mostly following the style established with the last two Coroner albums...'Mental Vortex' & 'Grin'(tho not as annoying)"

" There is nothing too fast and brutal here, and their doom metal roots can clearly be felt on a few moments. The music is mid-tempo, with wonderful surreal guitar play ("Scarlet Man", "The Colour Still Unwinds"), seldom speeding up ("In The Flesh"), without losing its genuine technical edge, even increasing it. "Chiaroscuro", which well deservedly carries the album-title, is a fine mix between the newly-epitomized technical style and their morose doom sound of old"

Sadly....this effort was a very worthy finish of the band's very short career....

Some of the members are now in Cypher and Constant Paranoia....

An Anthem For Doomed Youth!.........You Know !
Click.......Clack....

Hail of Bullets - Warsaw Rising - Ep (2009)

1. Warsaw Rising

2. Liberators

3. Destroyer (Twisted Sister Cover)

4. Red Wolves Of Stalin (Live)

5. Nachthexen (Live)

6. The Crucial Offensive (Live)

Origin - Netherlands

Style - Death Metal

" Van Drunen and the boys are back with a mini ep to crush your soul till the next full-length.....Now I want to see H.O.B. tour with Asphyx !.....Allright settle down "

" Theres not much to say..Other than These guys will take the place of Bolt Thrower(RIP)..Hopefully for the next 10 years or so...With their Heavy,Downtuned.....Crushers of 2 new tracks, A Twisted Sister Cover...You wont recognize it..And 3 live tracks from Party San Open Air festival "

" The two new tracks are classic...Already....And Ive only had this for a couple of days, The cover is another original in my book, and the live tracks are quality recorded material "

This shit KILLS !

Hail Of Mother Fucking Bullets !

Get It!......

Sinister - Cross the Styx (1992)

1. Carnificina Scelesta

2. Perennial Mourning

3. Sacramental Carnage

4. Doomed

5. Spiritual Immolation

6. Cross the Styx

7. Compulsory Resignation

8. Corridors to the Abyss

9. Putrefying Remains

10. Epoch of Denial

11. Perpetual Damnation

12. Outro

Origin - Netherlands

Style - Death Metal

" Sinisters debut full length "

" Consisting of 10 crushing songs (plus an intro and outro with guest performance by producer Alex Krull(Atrocity), who also laid some backing vocals on the title track), the album combined all the finest ingredients to form a brutal masterpiece "

" The music was clearly inspired by Possessed (especially the choppy and thrash-like riffs) but it also featured a lot of other influences, ranging from old-school death metal to grindcore (that’s why contemporary reviewers often called the album a mixture of Suffocation and Vomitory). The true highlight of the LP, however, was Mike van Mastrigt and his extremely deep and brutal growling, which, combined with diabolical lyrics about the occult, turned tracks such as “Putrefying Remains”, “Spiritual Immolation” and “Compulsory Resignation” into instant classics "

Sinister have had a fine career....And this was the start of it all...

Dutch Masters !........Get It!

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Gorefest - False (1992)

1. The Glorious Dead

2. State of Mind

3. Reality - When You Die

4. Get-a-Life

5. False

6. Second Face

7. Infamous Existence

8. From Ignorance to Oblivion

9. The Mass Insanity

10. Tired Moon (Bonus)

11. Reality - When You Die / Forty Shades (live)(Bonus)

12. Demon Seed (live)(Bonus)

13. Erase (live)(Bonus)

14. Goddess In Black (live)(Bonus)

Origin - Netherlands

Style - Death Metal

" Formed in 1989, Dutch band Gorefest managed to carve a niche for themselves in an increasingly overcrowded death metal genre, making their debut on the underground demo scene with two tapes, Tangled In Gore and Horrors In A Retarded Mind. After Mindloss(Classic), they secured a contract with Nuclear Blast Records and released False. Gorefest's material was morbidly metaphysical, and at their best they managed to combine melodic and inventive riffs with an abrasive edge "

" While Gorefest already showed their potential on "Mindloss", they were able to blossom to a magnificently unique band on 2nd album "False".The brutality combined with clever song writing and exquisite musical skills culminated in a true classic album! "

Yes, there is truly nothing negative to say about this absolute classic album, even 17 years after it's release! ......Crushing Death Metal !

Underworld Classic !..........Get It!

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God Dethroned - Passiondale (2009)

01. The Cross of Sacrifice

02. Under a Darkening Sky

03. No Man's Land

04. Poison Fog

05. Drowning in Mud

06. Passiondale

07. No Survivors

08. Behind Enemy Lines

09. Fallen Empires

10. Artifacts of the Great War

Origin - Netherlands

Style - Blackened Death Metal

" 8th full length from these dutch warriors of Metal "

" 'Passiondale' sees God Dethroned delve into the historical battle of Passchendaele...A Epic battle that saw both sides lose nearly a million men in total "

" This band has endured some line-up changes for this record but has pulled through with flying colors ! Musically, Passiondale is heavy as all hell with a lot of melody, a touch of clean singing (very well done I might add) every once in awhile and though the growls are brutally heavy they are also very audible. There is also a lot of tremolo picking, which really gives it that whole Blackened feel to it. "

" People ....This is not your ordinary black/Death metal record all about anti-Religious beliefs.....This is a true historical account of a bloody battle......And the record is the same....Bloody....Fucking.....Great !

A catchy, brutal, interesting and well put together concept album with the savage intensity to match.....

Dogs Of War !...........Get It!

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Polluted Inheritance - Ecocide (1992)

1. Faces

2. Dissolved

3. Eaten

4. Memories of Sadness

5. Substance of Existence

6. Fear

7. Stillborn

8. After Life

9. Rottings

10. Look Inside

11. Ecocided

Origin - Netherlands

Style - Technical Death Metal

" This is P.I.s Debut album on the little known West Virginia Records "

" The best description for this album would be: Death metal in a hybrid style that includes crazy rhythms, such that incomplete rhythmic patterns provide a continuity through our anticipation of the final beat established through contrast of offbeats as necessary, and sounds as a result somewhere between Exhorder and Malevolent creation, with verse riffs that resemble later work from Death.....Did ya get all that? "

" This was the bands most straight forward album..Probably leaning in the Death camp the most. Fairly sterile sounding...Technical...Low emotion Death Metal played with style "

Fans of Death,Pestilence etc...Check it out......

Seal Your Fate!..........Get It!

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Dead Head - Depression Tank (2009)

1. Dissolved In Purity

2. Green Angel

3. Cryptocynic

4. The Swing

5. Daemonique

6. Firegate

7. Less Than Zero

8. Murder

9. Nero Dies

10. Hateland

11. Pesticide

Origin - Netherlands

Style - Thrash Metal

" Depression Tank marks the 20 year anniversary of Dead Head, a thrash band from Zwolle, The Netherlands that has been making thrash metal since its formation in 1989 "

" This fifth album does not suddenly introduce female vocals, keyboards, forced melodic downfalls or other misplaced ingredients into the sound of the band. Instead, it’s another raw, pure and energetic work of thrash. Dead Head plays good old thrash metal in the best Kreator, old Sadus and Slayer style, but have created from the beginning their own typical trademarks in their music. Very aggressive vocals, lots of melody and solo’s in their songs and also brilliant slower technical parts to give this kind of thrash the dynamic and power it needs to have"

Depressive Tank is no less than a murderous package of truly aggressive, adrenaline-pumped up and intense thrash metal !

For fans of Dew Scented, Kreator etc......Killer !

TTHHHRRAASSHHHH....!!!!!!! ..........Get It?

You Should......

Fondlecorpse - Creaturegore (2009)

1. Invasion
2. Pillage Burn Kill
3. Ghoulish Tales
4. Hideous (Revenge Of The Aborted Oddities)
5. The Nightbreed
6. The Hermit
7. Goremarine
8. Sluts And Bolts
9. Krite Attack
10. Nymphomatic Zombie Rapist
11. Dont Feed After Midnight


Origin - Netherlands
Style - Death Metal

" Fondlecorpse is back!.New album of crushing old-school sounding death metal"

" This quartet of bloodthirsty gremlins play a sort of bastardized thrash-death hybrid...But the old-school influence is overwhelming..And b- schlock horror movies is where its at lyrically. The vocals are monstrous and inteligible at the same time.
Guitar wise..the tracks are catchy and heavy as fuck "

This bastard of a record has been in the making for 10 some years..So its about time to unleash this gore-soaked beast on the world !......


Dont Fuck Around !....Buy It!....Check It!
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Pestilence - Resurrection Macabre (2009)

1. Devouring Frenzy

2. Horror Detox

3. Fiend

4. Hate Suicide

5. Synthetic Grotesque

6. Neuro Dissonance

7. Dehydrated II

8. Resurrection Macabre

9. Hangman

10. Y2H

11. In Sickness & Death

12. Chemo Therapy

13. Out of the Body

14. Lost Souls

Origin - Netherlands

Style - Progressive Death/Thrash Metal

" 'Resurrection Macabre' is Pestilence's first studio album since 1993's' Spheres' "

Review soon.....

Go Ahead !....Get It!

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Callenish Circle - Flesh Power Dominion (2002)

1. Obey Me

2. For What It's Good For

3. Witness Your Own Oblivion

4. Take Me Along

5. Bleeding

6. Your Final Swansong

7. Suffer My Disbelief

8. They've Chosen

9. ...

10.Pull The Plug (Death Cover)

11. When The Lady Smiles (Golden Earring Cover)

Origin - Netherlands

Style - Melodic Death Metal

" This was the third LP from the now defunct Callenish Circle "

" An assault of gothenberg MDM...Tho from the netherlands. These guys had the At The Gates sound down to a tee....Fast thrashy songs with a tight production and a high screeching vocalist "

" CC were a really good band that went in a more industrial sound later in their career....But if you ever wondered what these guys sound like..This is a good start !

For Fans of In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, At The Gates

Disguised Ignorance !..........Get It!

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Thanatos - Justified Genocide (2009)

1. They Feed On Fear

2. Destruction.Chaos. Creation

3. The Devil’s Triangle

4. March Of The Infidels

5. Justified Genocide

6. The Netherworld

7. Dawn Of Eternity (Massacre Cover)

8. Apostles Of Damnation

9. Upwards Spiritual Evolution

10. And Jesus Wept (Bonus, taken from the 2006 7”)

11. The Burning Of Sodom (Bonus, Dark Angel Cover, taken from the 2006 7”)

Origin - Netherlands

Style - Death/Thrash Metal

" In 2009, a quarter of a century after the band's first incarnation...Thanatos returns with their 5th full length album "

" Their mix of old school thrash and death metal still stands tall and these are the band's most raw and in your face sounding recordings ever. 'Justified Genocide' was recorded at Excess Studio in Rotterdam, Netherlands and mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö (Edge Of Sanity, Bloodbath) at Unisound Studio in Sweden "

Reincarnation !.........Get It !

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Legion of the Damned - Cult of the Dead (2008)

1. Sermon of Sacrilege

2. Cult of the Dead

3. Pray & Suffer

4. House of Possession

5. Black Templar

6. Necrosophic Blessing

7. Solar Overlord

8. Enslaver of Souls

9. Lucifer Saviour

10. Black Wings of Yog-Sothoth

11. The Final Godsend

12. Werewolf Corpse

13. Deaths Head March

14. Demonfist

15. Taste Of The Whip

16. Into The Eye Of The Storm

17. Killing For Recreation

18. Malevolent Rapture

19. Bleed For Me

20. Legion Of The Damned

Origin - Netherlands

Style - Thrash Metal

" So Here it is the 4th full length from the dutch thrashers "

" Tracks 12-20 are live tracks...."

" This band is being hyped as the next big thing !........I am not sure about that, But they do make some god-damn catchy thrash metal....What to expect? Well, nothing new, really, just better than the last stuff they did. On Cult Of The Dead you will find a load of extremely fast parts that have been put together as tight as hell "

" The raw edges of thrash metal are still present in the sound. The guitars do not slide but they tear. This album is recorded in just three weeks, thus this product may be considered an achievement of great order.....Catchy rhythms and typical pounding thrash parts make this album addictive. But that is not the only reason; the songs consist of multiple layers. Every turn, new facts and items appear, underlining the fact these guys are craftsmen. Considering this, it is not that this is a tame album. It is as brutal as the previous albums, but the songs are slightly more complicated and sophisticated "

Not a perfect album by any sense of the word......But it will keep the thrashers out there happy !

N.F.V.O.A. !..........Get It!

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Pestilence - Spheres (1993)

1. Mind Reflections

2. Mulitple Beings

3. Level of Perception

4. Aurian Eyes

5. Soul Search

6. Personal Energy

7. Voices from Within

8. Spheres

9. Changing Perspectives

10. Phileas

11. Demise of Time

Origin - Netherlands

Style - Progressive Thrash Metal

" There are no keyboards on this album." So was stated by the band Pestilence on their 1993 album Spheres. The reason that I bring up the quote above, is because the Dutch act on this album sort of took the road that Iron Maiden did a few years prior, which is utilize extensive use of guitar synthesizers in their music, rather than actual keyboards, which for better or worse, totally changed their sound. Prior Pestilence releases took the influences of the Florida death metal scene and bands like Obituary, Death, Morbid Angel, and Death, added in some technical guitar work and progressive attitude, and came up with their own signature sound. With Spheres, the band one-upped the technical aspect, but also decided to inject even more prog and jazz into their sound, and used Roland guitar synthesizers to help out, quite a bit actually. This album here is less brutal than previous releases, relying less on crushing riffs and more on subtle jazzy embellishments. Tunes like "Changing Perspectives", "Personal Energy", "Multiple Beings", and the title track, all contain that familiar aggression "

" This is still a metal album, with Mameli's vocals still in that Death/Obituary type of growl, and the crashing, technical drum work of Marco Foddis (who also wrote all the bands lyrics). It just was a real 'about face' for the band. For the time, this album might have been a tad too odd and different, as metal bands in 1993, especially death metal bands, hadn't yet started to delve too far into prog rock territory, and this beast called Spheres certainly dove into prog, as well as jazz-fusion and ambient styles. With a constant wave of guitar synths, less brutal riffs, and relentless time & meter changes, the music here is quite sophisticated..."

Looking back, most fans now have 'gotten it' many years later, and see Spheres for the classic that it is......

Go Ahead !....Get It!

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Severe Torture - Misanthropic Carnage (2002)

1. Mutilation Of The Flesh

2. Meant To Suffer

3. Carnivorous Force

4. Misanthropic Carnage

5. Blinded I Slaughter

6. Impelled To Kill

7. Castrated

8. Forever To Burn

9. Your Blood Is Mine

10. Rest In Flames (Bonus Track)

11. Pray For Nothing (Bonus Track)

12. Perverse Suffering [Cannibal Corpse cover]

Origin - Netherlands

Style - Brutal Death Metal

" I respect Severe Torture because they come straight out and say "This is the kind of music we like, the kind we've always liked, and the kind we'll always play. We love Cannibal Corpse, and they inspire us greatly. If you don't like it, we don't care." Misanthropic Carnage continues the blazing guttural death tradition w/ no compromise whatsoever. Hardly Cannibal Clones, they take basic concepts from Tomb of the Mutilated and The Bleeding and build on that w/ excellent death grooves and notey as hell guitar lines that break out the air tremlo every time "

" Misanthropic Carnage is as solid and almost as tight as it gets for speedy pit inducing death metal. Quality no-holds-barred death metal worth the money for hard-headed death & brutal death fiends "

This is the Re-Mastered version with Bonus tracks..........

Butchery Of The Soul !.......Get It!

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Legion of the Damned - Cult of the Dead (2008)

01. Sermon Of Sacrilege (intro)

02. Pray And Suffer

03. Black Templar

04. House Of Possession

05. Black Wings Of Yog Sothoth

06. Cult Of The Dead

07. Necrosophic Rapture

08. Enslaver Of Souls

09. Solar Overlord

10. Lucifer Saviour

11. Final Godsend

Origin - Netherlands

Style - Death/Thrash Metal

" New album from the dutch thrash machine "

I will save my review for a another day.......Because?

This is The Bastard Voice-Over Edition !

Irritating !...And the same bastard on every promo!

Get It Here

Dead Head - Kill Division (1999)

1. Kill Division
2. Cold Being
3. Waste of Skin
4. Six
5. Mahler
6. Sprayed Into Oblivion
7. Wings on Fire
8. Where Silence Dwells
9. The Hustler
10. Until the Sun Appears
11. Souls of Ice
12. Heavy Metal Thunder (Saxon cover)

Origin - Netherlands

Style - Thrash Metal

" Holland quartet Dead Head developed near the tail end of the big original movement in 1989, releasing a series of demos and three albums over the course of the next 10 years. "Kill Division" would be their third release in 1999 "

" Dead Head prefer the super sonic melt your face off approach to thrash- the one that makes fingers bleed on guitar strings and drum heads, as well as insuring buckets of sweat and possible limb damage from the crowd. Reference points would include Sadus, Kreator and early Dark Angel- with bassist Tom Van Dijk doubling on the vocals with a razor gurgling affinity for Mille in tracks like "Cold Being", "Sprayed Into Oblivion" and "Wings On Fire"

" It’s a shame this act isn’t considered in the same breath as the aforementioned groups, because they certainly have the ability, talent and songwriting skills to be in the upper speed death/thrash echelon.....Lost But Not Forgotten !

Killer !.......Thrash !

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