The Haunted - Warning Shots (2009)

cd1

1. Hate Song

2. Trespass

3. Shadow World

4. D.O.A.

5. Undead

6. One Kill Wonder

7. Under The Surface

8. In Vein

9. Hollow Ground

10. Everlasting

11. Dark Intentions

12. Bury Your Dead

13. Shithead

14. Chasm

15. Revelation

16. Forensick

Cd2

1. Ritual

2. Creed

3. Well Of Souls

4. Eclipse

5. Choke Hold (Live)

6. Leech (Live)

7. Three Times (Live)

8. Undead (Demo)

9. Shattered (Demo)

10. Undead (Rehearsal)

11. Now You Know (Rehearsal)

12. Blood Rust (Rehearsal)

13. ILL Be Damned

14. Burner

Origin - Sweden

Style - Thrash Metal

" A new two-disc compilation of the band's early highlights and unreleased bonus ,demo and rehearsal tracks "

" Disc one of this compilation covers their first three studio albums- 1998's self-titled debut, 2000's 'The Haunted Made Me Do It' and 2003's 'One Kill Wonder' "

" Disc two contains B-sides,demos and rehearsal tracks..the best being the b-sides as they could have been on any of the first 3 albums easily "

The Haunted fans will dig the unreleased stuff...While the uninitiated could find a glimpse into the earlier thrashy material (I like the early tracks..Myself)

DD !.........Made You Do It!

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Razor of Occam - Homage To Martyrs (2009)

1. Altar Of Corruption

2. Bite Of The Dogmata

3. Day Of Wrath

4. Heat Of Battle

5. Immortal Code

6. Pattern On The Stone

7. Flame Bearers

8. Shadow Of The Cross

Origin - Australia

Style - Blackened Thrash Metal

" Debut Full length from the Australian/Uk Black/Thrashers featuring members of Deströyer 666 "

" Holy Cripes !.....I put this on and ....No campy intro....No keys or classical guitars....Just Walloping sounds of 'Altar Of Corruption'....Scathing,Tearing,Thrash riffs and black metal style raspy vokills wrapped in a crisp..Big Sounding production !.....33 minutes later and I am still looking for a break in this album...But There are none.."

" What you get to hear on ‘Homage To Martyrs’ is the perfect amalgamation of raw Black Metal and the thrashing mania of early Slayer. As raw, relentless and intense as it can get! Merciless sharp riffing and pure brutality from the darkest vaults of down under "

Beware of this record !......I shit you not.....It makes you want to break something..

...Me....I went out and punched the heavy bag for 15 minutes....Im ok now !

Tyranny Of The Gods !..........Oh Yes !

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Believer - Gabriel (2009)

1. Medwton
2. A Moment In Prime
3. Stoned
4. Redshift
5. History Of Decline
6. The Need For Conflict
7. Focused Lethality
8. Shut Out The Sun
9. The Brave
10. Nonsense Mediated Decay


Origin - USA
Style - Progressive Thrash/Death Metal


" Believer returns with their first full length in 16 years ! "

" With the opening track “Medwton” one huge seething mass of crushing jagged thrash riffs, scathing vocals and an injection of melodic solo work from guest guitarist Deron Miller (CKY/World Under Blood). This is only the beginning...."

" There are keyboards sprinkled through out..but very subtle...There are loads of catchy riffs in here and blistering solo's...And of course the progressive passages in every track "

This is quite the comeback in my opinion....Much more straight forward than I expected !...Thankfully gone are the female operatic vocals and such... Instead with Gabriel the band has managed to bring back that old-school thrash sound, but also mix in a large dose of technicality and originality while still sounding very current.....


Damn Straight !.......Get It!
They have it.......

Morpheus - In The Arms Of...(EP) (1991)

1. No Mans Land
2. Among Others
3. The Third Reich 3797 A.C.
4. Thoughts Of Distrust

Origin - Sweden

Style - Death Metal

" Recorded at Sunlight Studio by Thomas Skogsberg in July 1991. 500 copies pressed on yellow vinyl, and 500 on black vinyl "

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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Decrepitaph - Condemned Cathedral (2008)

1. Possessed By Blasphemy

2. Unholy Crucifixion

3. Condemned Cathedral

4. Worship the Dead

5. Morbid Rituals

6. Dawn of the Zombie

7. The Labyrinth of Bones

8. Desolate Obscurity

9. A Burial in Hell

10. Crawling Out From the Crypt

Origin - USA

Style - Death Metal

" Hailing from Texas, Decrepitaph have released a mix of old school death and stomping old school grindcore...."

" Condemned Cathedral is a heavy and dirty slab of filthy death metal. The guitars grind and buzz away any polish that might even attempt to sneak their way into this recording. A muffled Sunlight Studios sound would be a fair comparison. Crushing and thick like molasses "

" There’s no “ingenuity” here, but who needs something fast and new when you’ve got the old formula down perfectly? Pick this up and crank it up ! You’ve now got a weapon of death metal in your hands that may lead to aching neck muscles "

Religion Of Death !........Get It!

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Morpheus - Son of Hypnos (1993)

1. Depths of Silence

2. Through the Halls of Darkness

3. God against All

4. The Third Reich 3797 A.C.

5. Of Memories Made (The God of Dreams)

6. Memento Mori

7. Among Others

8. Inflame the Mass

9. Wonderland

10. Dreams

Origin - Sweden

Style - Death Metal

" One aan only full-length Recorded At Unicorn Music Studio,9-12 April 1993 "

" Morpheus ( formerly Exhumed )was formed in Stockholm by ex-Carbonized members Markus Rüden, drummer, and guitarist Stephan Ekström. The line-up was completed with bassist Johan Bergebäck "

" As Exhumed, the group marked their entrance in 1990 with the demo 'Obscurity'. Exhumed became Morpheus. Morpheus released the 12" ep, " In The Arms Of Morpheus " in 1991 on Opinionate Records. " In The Arms Of..." features guitarist Janne Rudberg (Mastication). Janne Rudberg went on to join Excruciate in mid -1992 "

" Sebastian Ramstedt later made his mark with Necrophobic and Nifelheim. Johan Bergebäck went on to join Nifelheim, and Necrophobic and later joined Dismember in September of 2004 "

Another of the lost Swedish relics.............

Obscure Desolation !..........Get It!

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Leukemia - Suck my Heaven (1993)

1. Into The Morgue

2. I Nearly Forgot

3. Uncarved Miseria

4. Wandering

5. Sick Inside

6. You Es of Ey

7. Everything Fall Apart

8. Memorized

9. Different But Same

Origin - Sweden

Style - Death Metal

" Recorded: 1992 at Sunlight Studio...Featuring many members of Sweden's finest bands "

" This one was a little left of normal when it came to Death Metal in 1993....Odd vocals (kinda hardcore yell)..Strange lyrics....But a solid release for the times "

For the Swedish completest...........

Why Wait?......Get It!

Now........

Paganizer - Murder Death Kill (2003)

1. Meateater

2. Mourning Life

3. Bleed Unto Me

4. Shallow Burial

5. Dead Souls

6. Crawl To The Cross

7. Obsessed By Flesh

8. Du Vaknar Som Dod

9. Formaldehyde Dreams

Origin - Sweden

Style - Death Metal

" Old-school swedish death metal anyone?......Paganizer has the goods on their 4th album "

" Swedish death metal band much in the vein of bands like Grave,Dismember (maybe less melody) and many other great bands. Chunky mid-paced riffs mostly.. with hardly a blast in sight. Rogga's low gutteral vocals and a Dan Swano Mix make this a automatic buy for any Death Metal Fan "

Its not inventive !......But it sure is tasty !........Mmm Good......

Crave The Flesh !.........Get It!

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Cancer - Death Shall Rise (1991)

1. Hung, Drawn And Quartered

2. Tasteless Incest

3. Burning Casket

4. Death Shall Rise

5. Back From The Dead

6. Gruesome Tasks

7. Corpse Fire

8. Internal Decay

Origin - United Kingdom

Style - Death Metal

" Cancer started out in Telford, Shropshire (Uk) way back in 1987...Released a great debut 'To the Gory End' and followed with 'Death Shall Rise' their second release "

" This album is particularly immense as it features a certain James Murphy on lead guitars (James re-located to the U.K for a short period after he left Death), so it features a fair bit of Spiritual Healing styled melodic technical guitar solos which fits right in over the Bolt Thrower-esque thrashy death riffage this album is so ridden with "

" If you're a huge fan of the earlier death metal bands, especially those that started out on the Roadrunner roster, you'll love this. It's an essential album to plug a gaping gap in the collection of those that proclaim a love of rhythmic, thrashy death metal...."

No Fuckin Cover !..........Ok !

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The Zombi - Appetite for Flesh - Ep (2007)

1. Lawnmower Massacre

2. Coffin

3. Reanimated

4. In the Cellar

5. Nailed Down For Torture

6. Shot Into The Dead

7. They Hunger

8. In The Cellar

9. Lawnmower Massacre

10. Reanimated

11. Coffin

Tracks 1-4 (Apetite For Flesh Ep)Live Drums

Tracks 5-11 (Internet Singles)Drum Machine used on all tracks

Origin - Finland

Style - Death Metal

" Ah Finland, its glaciers, its forests and its Zombis?......The zombi have been around since 2003 and slowly released tracks via the Internet during this time "

" Cannibal Corpse Style death metal is what you are in for here....Heavy riffing with deep vocals and a heavy production make this shit sound good ! Tracks 1-4 here have live drumming and are much better than the rest of the tracks, However the ones with the drum machine are still very well done and great as well "

" These guys need to get signed and get a debut out as soon as possible because a band that sounds this good deserves to let the masses hear their art....."

For Fans of Cannibal Corpse, Six Feet Under, Bloodbath etc.

Zombies Are Metal !........Get It!

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Mantic Ritual - Executioner (2009)

1. One by One

2. Executioner

3. Black Tar Sin

4. Death and Destruction

5. Murdered to Death

6. Souls

7. Panic

8. Double the Blood

9. Thrashatonement

10. By The Cemetery

11. Next Attack

Origin - USA

Style - Thrash Metal

" Formed in 2005, Pittsburgh quartet Mantic Ritual are the latest in a long line of fresh-faced, 20-something Thrash acts currently making the rounds "

" Their music?.........Kill em all !......Seriously...these guys sound like Metallica's greatest record....Right down to the vokills,solo's....Four Horsemen time changes...This has all of it..And a nice stout production to go along with 55 min of retro-Thrash worship "

" Originallity?......Nah.....Tight Playing...Yeah....Tight jeans and hightops...Yeah....Catchy Thrash anthems...Yeah......Fun to listen to...Yeah ! "

You can put this one down next to your Evile,Gama Bomb,Bonded By Blood records just fine...

Look..Its damn hard to make an original Thrash record in 2009...Its all been done before....At least Mantic Ritual is having fun playing the music they obviously worship.....Which is OK by me !

I would have liked to see a more retro looking artwork...But whatever.....

Riff-O-Rama !.........Go Ahead !

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D.V.C. - Molecular Shadow (1992)

1. Cannabistic Torqulation

2. Ash

3. Tallow

4. Bow Of Mortis

5. Pig Latin Auctioneer

6. Sick With Experience

7. In A Gadda Da Bhagavad Gita

8. Remanent Ashes Of Mortal Man

9. Ominous Dance

10. Dissolve In Galaxia

Origin - USA

Style - Death Metal

" Darth Vaders Church sound like a cross between Napalm Death,Terrorizer with some Bolt Thrower & some Anal Cunt(silliness) to boot...."

" This was their second album...And a strange concoction is was...Heavy Downtuned guitars and Harmonica?....Oboe?...Anyway...Their employment of strange styled instruments made for an interesting listen. This Lp is actually got some cool ideas and good playing...Just the production makes the whole entity suffer a bit..And could have been so much better with the proper Studio "

A bizarre record at the least....and a rare piece of Floridian Death Metal for sure.....

Big Bong Hits!........Get Em !

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Eucharist - Demo 1 (1992)

1. Intro / Greeting Immortality

2. March of Insurrection

3. Into the Cosmic Sphere / Outro

Origin - Sweden
Style - Melodic Death Metal

" 1st demo from the legendary Eucharist (one of my personal favorites) "

" The production on this demo is better than their debut full length 'A velvet Creation'....Much more fuller and powerful sounding..not so clicky "


Only 270 copies made......Rare shit indeed !


Go Ahead !.......Get It!
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Autumnia - O´Funeralia (2009)

1. In Heavens... Among the Tombs

2. Blessing Your Illness

3. Falling Asleep With Entreaty

4. Breathe Your Mourning Into Me

5. By The Candles Obsequial

Origin - Ukraine

Style - Doom/Death Metal

" The Ukraine's Autumnia again delivers an impressive album for fans of melodic doom metal. The music is quite slow-paced, utterly melancholic and sorrowfilled "

" What you can expect is pure doom that is quite fresh and original. The riffs are heavy, but at times quite melodic with the occasional clean guitar picking often reminding me of Draconian. Vocally: Deep deep Growls and the occasional clean chorus..but not much "

I highly recommend this album to anyone who’s into melodic doom/death metal, filled with sorrowful and dark passion !

For fans of: Swallow The Sun,Draconian, etc...

Sorrow & Solitude !.......Get It!

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Immolation - Stepping on Angels... Before Dawn (1995)

1. Relentless Torment

2. Holocaust

3. Rigor Mortis

4. Warriors of Doom

5. Immolation

6. Dawn of Possession

7. Internal Decadence

8. Burial Ground

9. Despondent Souls

10. Infectious Blood

11. Despondent Souls ('90)

12. Burial Ground (live)

13. Infectious Blood (live)

14. Immolation (live)

15. Despondent Souls (live)

16. Dawn of Possession (live)

Origin - USA

Style - Death Metal

Tracks 1, 2 & 3 from 'Decomposed' Demo (1987; as Rigor Mortis)

Track 4 from 'Warriors of Doom' Demo (1987; as Rigor Mortis)

Tracks 5 & 6 from 'Immolation' Demo (1988)

Tracks 7, 8 & 9 from 'Immolation' Demo (1989)

Track 10 'Infectious Blood' (later renamed 'Fall In Disease') was also recordedfrom the same '89 session but the band would just make it a three song tape.

Track 11 'Despondent Souls' recorded in January 1990 for the first "At Death'sDoor" compilation but never ended up on the compilation album due to the timingof that record's release.

88-89 Live ( Tracks 12-15)"Burial Ground", "Infectious Blood", & "Immolation"Recorded at "Streets", New Rochelle, NY Dec 3, 1988"Despondent Souls" & "Dawn of Possession"Recorded in Belle Vernon, PA June 17, 1989

Track 16 is extra long because it's actually 3 tracks in one. After "Dawn ofPossession" finishes, another track starts around 3:40 which is actually a livecover of Autopsy - Charred Remains from their 1988 demo "Critical Madness",followed by a live cover of Sepultura - Morbid Visions (starts at about 7:45).

" This collection of early works and pre-release versions of classics from the first album shows Immolation developing from old school death metal to a proto-technical level while simultaneously differentiating the band in concept and image. A glimpse into the mind of this developing musical force is like a cross-section of metal history as concepts develop from variants on known quantities to an evocative voice of will isolated in these individuals "

" Known in their early days as Rigor Mortis (no relation to the Texas band), the band moved from punkish songs with pop construction in verse and chorus directness, sounding in many ways similar to Slaughter (Canada) or Master, toward a nihilistic and raw death metal sound applied with a level of destructivity blanketing the listener in crushing riffs "

This compilation is a look into what would become one of the most well known bands in Death Metal History !

Nailed To The Cross !..........Get It!

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Decameron - My Shadow...(1996)

1. Mörker

2. Carpe Nocem

3. Our Time Has Come

4. Satanized

5. Le Roi Triste

6. The Scar of Damnation

7. Sexual Immortality

8. Skábma

9. My Shadow...

10. Prophecy of Life to Come

11. Mistress of Sacrifice

Origin - Sweden

Style - Black/Death Metal

" Decameron, formerly known as Nekrofobic, clearly take influences from Swedish bands like Eucharist, At the Gates and Necrophobic.....This is their debut full length "

" Mixing Swedish melodic death metal with black metal overtones ala Dissection...Makes 'My Shadow' a very entertaining record. Plenty of time changes,changing vocal styles and blackened melodies with a streamlined production "

BenB was looking for this one.......

Go Ahead!.......get It!

Down Under........

Ribspreader - Opus Ribcage (2009)

1. Opus Ribcage (Intro)

2. Dying Dead Decomposed

3. Corpse Dumpster

4. Septic Severance

5. None Has Survived

6. Death and Beyond

7. Torn Flesh Satisfaction

8. River of Rot

9. The Skeletal Empire

10. Fermenting Fields

11. Blitzkrieg Pop

Origin - Sweden

Style - Death Metal

" More Rogga Johansson !......More Death Metal done the old way! "

" This guy never ceases to amaze me with the amount of outputs per year...Hopefully he is making a living off music...He deserves it..That's for sure "

No need for a review......You people who dig this kinda stuff..Know what to do !

Revel in Filth !.........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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BAAAACK !

Hailz,

I have returned from a mini-vacation and will proceed with some good shit...Up Soon. To answer an inquiry about contributers for this site?....Thanx for asking.....But No....I work alone.

DD