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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Revolting - Dreadful Pleasures (2009)


1. Tenafly Viper
2. Terror has no Shape
3. Overtaken by the Crawling
4. They're not Human
5. Moonshine Mutation
6. Video Vixen
7. Brainwaves of Death
8. Sheetar the Bloodqueen
9. Dreadful Pleasures


Origin - Sweden
Style - Death Metal

" If Revolting Rogga (Rogga Johansson)-(Paganizer,Demiurg,Carve,Ribspreader)isnt the most prolific writer and recorder of death metal right now ...I dont know who is?.....This is Revolting's debut....."

"Revolting is dedicated to the absolute worship of late '80s death metal (Carnage,Impetigo) and horror/gore films from the 1980s. The band chose its name "to reflect the gross, nasty, gory, and insane horror films from the '80s such as 'Street Trash', 'The Blob', 'Redneck Zombies', and other mutant gross-out fests "


You will get no keyboards here.....No Clean vocals.....Just 31 minutes of disgusting,Old-School Death metal worship !


So if your musical taste includes: Funebre,Crematory,Carnage,Autopsy,Gorement etc. Then by all means enjoy !


Puke Out Your Intestines !........Then..Get It!

Friday, January 30, 2009

Ghamorean - Plaguempire (2005)



1. Wretch
2. Existence Without God
3. Project Sulphur Hate
4. Shackled
5. Parasite
6. Sirens for the Weak
7. Enigma of Human Deceit


Origin - Sweden
Style - Death/Black Metal

" Ghamorean is From Umea, Sweden. The band has been around for a while but they had only released 1 demo before this Debut in 2005"

" Their music is pretty vicious, evil and dark but yet dynamic and varied. People will probably think of endless blast-beats, shrieking vocals and tremolo guitars with poor variation when they hear or read death/black metal. But that's not the case here. Ghamorean is a band that has taken influences from the Norwegian black metal scene and mixed them with ingredients of modern death metal....To arrive at something really interesting "

" All the members deliver a splendid mix of pale vicious black metal and heavy hammer-slamming death metal. The vocals on this album sound like a raspy sort of Tompa like thing...Really good . The production is clear and you can hear everything separately. Many songs have great tempo transitions, like the track ''Shackled'' for example. The intro is incredibly intense, the tempo is lowered a bit but it is compensated by some impressive shredding and catchy drumming. And finally the tempo is lowered even more, and right after that the pace is turned up once again "

All in all a fine debut....And we will be hearing more from these guys ..As they have released a new one in late 2008...More on that one later...


Go Ahead !.......Check It Out!
Somewhere....Over There..

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Concrete Sleep - As I Fly Away (Demo 1992)


1. The Farm
2. As I Fly Away
3. Haunted By Visions

Origin - Sweden
Style - Death Metal

" Demo from 92 from former Formacide Members "

" One and only Demo released....A un-released Lp is said to be in the worx.....Enjoy some obscure Death Metal from Where Else?....Sweden "


Go Ahead!....Get It!

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

This Ending - Dead Harvest (2009)


1. Trace of Sin
2. Parasites
3. Machinery
4. Instigator of Dead Flesh
5. Dellusionists
6. Army of the Dying Sun
7. Dead Harvest
8. Tools of Demise
9. Deathtrade
10. The Asylum

Origin - Sweden
Style - Melodic Death Metal

" New full-length from ex - A Canorous Quintet members "

" Sort of a industrial Dark Tranquillity sound goin on here..."



Go Ahead !.....Get It!

Monday, January 26, 2009

Autopsy - Horrific Obsession 7" (2009)



1. Horrific Obsession
2. Feast Of The Graveworm


Origin - USA
Style - Death Metal

" For the first time in nearly 15 years, two vile new Autopsy tracks were recorded in September 2008, bringing together Chris Reifert, Danny Coralles and Eric Cutler for another slice of death & decay "

" These tracks make up a special, extremely limited (only 1,000) 7" vinyl release ". Everyone’s favorite San Franciscan sickos — an inspiration to an entire generation of death metal bands will be reissuing classic albums with bonus tracks also "


Ridden With Disease !......Get It!

Over There....

Seance - Saltrubbed Eyes (1993)


1. Soulerosion
2. 13th Moon
3. Saltrubbed Eyes
4. Controlled Bleeding
5. Angelmeat (Part II)
6. 'Til Death Do Us Join
7. Sanctum
8. Skinless
9. Hidden Under Scars


Origin - Sweden
Style - Death Metal


" Seance's second album, 1993's Saltrubbed Eyes, would also be their last...Until reforming recently with the top notch 'Awakening Of The Gods' lp "


" A textbook 1990's death metal band from Sweden, Linköping's Seance most closely resemble early Entombed or Edge of Sanity with their sludgy death metal crush; their mid-level complexity and mid-paced brutality. Breaking down the music: they add a few symphonic accents to "Angelmeat (Part II)," bring nicely evil harmonies to close the title track, or the odd clean-picked melody lines to instrumental "Hidden Under Scars," that Seance achieve their most distinctive moments "


" Seance served like an incubator for later bands such as Witchery, The Haunted etc..Although I prefer Seance myself...Yeah Im Old !!....But Fuck it !


This is a lost treasure of an album from a day that is not forgotten !


Ahh....The Blessing of Death !

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Guillotine - Under the Guillotine (1997)


1. Executioner
2. Grave Desecrator
3. Leprosy
4. Guillotine
5. Death Penalty
6. Crucifixion
7. Night Stalker
8. Tormentor
9. Total Mayhem
10. Violence

Origin - Sweden
Style - Thrash Metal

" Debut album from these swedish thrashers "

" Total Kreator 'Endless Pain' worship here !.......And thats not a bad thing....If you liked early Kreator or Sodom?...Then you will dig this too.."

This was one of the better retro-thrash LPs of the mid to late 90s...."


Get To It!......Ok?

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Agony - The First Defiance (1988)


1. Storm of the Apocalypse
2. The First Defiance
3. Execution of Mankind
4. Mass Manipulation
5. Night of the Emperor
6. Shadow of Fear
7. Madness Reigns
8. Deadly Legacy


Origin - Sweden
Style - Thrash Metal

" Agony is one of the most overlooked bands in the history of thrash metal. The fact that they are Swedish makes things even better..."

" “The first defiance” is a masterpiece on pretty much all accounts. There are riffs-a-fucken-plenty that guarantee your head will be bangin and there’s some serious fuck en songwriting going on. These guys had it all figured out; they took the best parts of the Bay Area scene, molded it into their own concoction and ended up with a fantastic album "

" Coming from a punk background (and formerly being known as Agoni – the Swedish word for “agony”, of course), “The first defiance” left the punk influences behind and concentrated on the ABC of magnificent thrash fucking metal with all sorts of time changes and ripping solo's....But its the awesome riffs that set this one apart ! "

If this album had today's powerful productions...This would be a legend!......In my mind it is anyway !

If you claim to be a serious thrash fan and don't know these guys?.......Please up-grade your knowledge and find this at all costs......

Crank It Up !


Thrash For Life !.........No Other Way !
Right Here Fuckers......

Friday, January 23, 2009

Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague (2009)


1. Priests of Sodom
2. Scalding Hail
3. To Decompose
4. A Cauldron of Hate
5. Beheading and Burning
6. Evidence in the Furnace
7. Carnivorous Swarm
8. Evisceration Plague
9. Shatter Their Bones
10. Carrion Sculpted Entity
11. Unnatural
12. Skewered from Ear to Eye


Origin - USA
Style - Death Metal


" Cannibal Corpse’s “Evisceration Plague,” is the band’s eleventh album "

" Taking up where "Kill" left off... Cannibal Corpse have indeed brought on the heaviness and blood,sweat and a improved guitar sound on this new one "

" Containing 12-tracks of pure brutality and aggression shows Cannibal Corpse at their best bringing out a more heavier feel and vibration throughout the entire record....Again produced by Erik Rutan at Mana Recording Studios "

You know what you are going to get !



Blood And Sweat !.....Now Get !

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Rumpelstiltskin Grinder - Living for Death, Destroying the Rest (2009)


1. Nothing Defeats the Skull
2. Graveyard Vandalization
3. Brainwasher C. 1655
4. Friends in the Mountain, Ghouls in the Valley
5. Spyborg
6. Traitor's Blood
7. Beware the Thrash Brigade
8. Sewers Of Doom (Dethroning The Tyrant Pt.1)
9. Darkness Never Ending (Dethroning The Tyrant Pt.2)
10. Revolution Of Underground Legions (Dethroning The Tyrant Pt.3)


Origin - USA
Style - Thrash Metal

" Philadelphia's Rumpelstiltskin Grinder are back with their second album of Speed/Thrash/ Metal "

" These guys play as fast as they freaking can without it getting death or grind. "Graveyard Vandalism" is ludicrously speedy, the riff at 2:41 in "Traitor's Blood" is almost too fast and every song contains about a novella's worth of lyrics. Some tunes, like "Brainwasher C. 1655" and "Fiends in the Mountain, Ghouls in the Valley" (honestly, I love these song titles), add a bit of German thrash melody amidst the double-bass barrage and oh-so-perfect riffing. The production is crisp, clear and complements the surprisingly solid instrumentation nicely "

" Look...If you are into metal that pokes fun at the genre and at the same time gives respect to the old-school.. Then this is for you!

For fans of: Testament, Exodus,Municipal Waste, Kreator, Toxic Holocaust and all fun... over the top Metal.....


Buy Cds !......Support The Scene !

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

R.U. Dead? - ...Completely Dead. (2002)



1. One Past Zero
2. A Thought Before The Kill
3. Profession of Faith
4. And The Moon Whispers
5. When Your Heart Turns Black
6. Horrid Tomorrow
7. Doomworld
8. Hypnos
9. The Tombs Have Not Been Sealed
10. Mind Funeral / Lurking Fear
11. Omega / Insane Gods
12. Ninety-Six


Origin - Germany
Style - Death Metal

1-3 from 12" ep '97, 4-7 from MCD '95, 8-9 from 7" ep '92 ,10 - from demo '91, 11 -from demo '92 ,12 - unreleased promo tape '98

"Compilation from cult german's R.U.Dead?...Covering the entire back catalogue"

" R.U.Dead? formed in 1989...Born from the ashe's of Poison...No not the cheesy poison ! R.U.Dead? played a brand of death metal that was aggressive and a bit crude with totally extreme vocals and a very compact production "

Gorth with the call again...On this "rare" and overlooked band..


Nyktophobia !........Get It!
@......Over Here...

Dead Man's Hand - The Combination (2009)

1. Capaci Bomb
2. Body in the Barrel
3. Hostile Respect
4. The Last Stand
5. Bloodstained Hands
6. Castigate
7. Guillotine
8. Taste the Metal
9. Knuckledusted
10. The Combination

Origin - Norway

Style - Thrash/Death Metal

" Dead Man's Hand can be described as a blend of modern up-tempo thrash and down to mid tempo death metal...Think The Haunted,At The Gates, etc with some Slayer mosh parts "

" This is their debut and a very good one indeed. All the tracks are aggressive as well as the vocal's..A mixture of throat-shredding roars and the deep death metal growls. The production is good and everything sounds well balanced "

For Fan's of The Haunted, At The Gates, and Any Swedish death/Thrash bands !

Buy It!...If You Like It!

They have it here..

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Konkhra - Nothing Is Sacred (2009)


1. Prelude To Perversion
2. Hail To The King
3. Religion Is A Whore
4. Breathe The Fear
5. Killswitch
6. Nothing Is Sacred
7. Legacy Of Truth
8. Sufficient To Sicken
9. The Race
10. I Defy
11. The Promise Of Antagonism


Origin - Denmark
Style - Death Metal


" Denmark’s Konkhra, who celebrate their 20 year anniversary in 2009, release their 6th album Nothing Is Sacred "

" Nothing Is Sacred features James Murphy on lead guitar, and introduces both 20-year-old guitarist Michael Skovbakke and one of Denmark’s fastest drummers Mads Lauridsen "


" This shit is as heavy as a sledge hammer...and damn catchy too....with a chunky production and brutal drums..and of course the solo's from murphy top it off !


2009 is off and running.....


Uncompromising !.........Get It!

Monday, January 19, 2009

Morpheus Descends - Ritual Of Infinity (1992)


1. The Way of All Flesh
2. Corpse Under Glass
3. Immortal Coil
4. Trephanation
5. Proclaimed Creator
6. Accelerated Decreptitude
7. Submerged in Adipocere
8. Enthralled to Serve
9. Ritual of Infinity

10. Trephanation
11. Triformed Limbs
12. Stigmatic Crucifixion
13. Residual Kill
14. Accelerated Decreptitude


Tracks 10-14 are from the Adipocere 7 inch tracks (Morpheus)


Origin - USA
Style - Death Metal

" An often overlooked but nonetheless hugely influential component of the New York Death Metal scene, Morpheus Descends has been praised by bands such as Suffocation as originators of this technical, dark and sludgy groove oriented vein of death metal "

" The track's on this debut album show death metal in various tempos, oppressive melodies, deep growling vocals and crunching guitars with leads. Morpheus Descends plays in the good old tradition so you know what to expect and certainly expect no surprises. Keeping in mind that these are old recordings you know where the Ney York style bands get their inspiration from "


This is an underground classic........


Go Ahead.........Get It!

The Batallion - Stronghold of Men (2008)


1. The Spirit of Masculinity
2. Born in a Grave
3. Detonate
4. Man to Man (Warfare)
5. Victims
6. Smoke em Out
7. Hate at Last Sight
8. Tension in the Stronghold
9. March of the Veterans
10. Prove Your Pain
11. Last Dawn

Origin - Norway
Style - Blackened Death/Thrash Metal

" Formed in the summer of 2006 in Bergen, Norway, this group of talented musicians have members from legendary bands like ‘Old Funeral’, ‘Grimfist’, ‘Taake’ and ‘Borknagar’ to name a few. Their spirit and hunger is based on their passion for that old 80’s death/thrash metal feel "

" This album is a Thrash Metal kick in the teeth, a reflective burst of Tankards steely angst and Destructions lacerating vocal gurgle. The whole musical experience here is high octane; head banging retro thrash with a modern punch. Of the eleven numbers here you will discover a wide range of tempos and solid guitar arrangements. Stud Bronson’s vocals rasp away like a chainsaw and there are some tasty solo's also "

This is a must for fans of ‘Desaster’, ‘Destruction’, and early ‘Sodom’. It is a classic barrage of extreme dirty death/thrash metal from the 80’s but with a modern approach....So grab a beer and give these guys a listen for a thrashing good time !


Fist Raising And Downright Dirty !......Get It!

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Slugathor - Unleashing the Slugathron (2003)


1. Delicacies Of The Cadaver
2. All Must Die
3. Bleed For Me
4. Lord Of All (Unborn)
5. Suffering Endlessly
6. Fabric Of The Multiverse
7. Instinct To Kill
8. Phenomenon Of Doom
9. Extinction
10. Abhorrent Copulation Machine

Origin - Finland
Style - Death Metal

" Slugathor's debut...originally on tape only(333) copies "

" Finland may never have been as prolific with bands as Sweden, but what they lack in quantity, they make up for with quality. I for one will take quality any day of the week. Finland has some truly classic bands... Demigod, Xysma, Abhorrence/Amorphis, Sentenced (the early stuff at least), Funebre, Demilich, and Adramelech. Well, you can add Slugathor to that list. Here is yet another band that has told the modern scene to fuck off and die in pain "

" Heavy as hell, brutal in a decidedly "non-American" way, and all-around crushing. Slugathor are one of the new rising stars in the underground. Chances are that you've never even heard about them, but you should seek them out. This is one of those bands that is buried deep in the underground, down where many "real" bands lie. They come from the same place that the gods of old came from, with the same kind of mindset and attitude towards metal. Slugathor are somewhere in the realm of Rottrevore and Incantation, impossibly combined with Demigod(Demo era) "

Awesome old-school stuff here folks !


Trap them and kill them !............Got It?

Friday, January 16, 2009

Devilyn - XI (2005)


1. The Counting of Quartered Heavens
2. The Enemy Within
3. Faith
4. The List
5. Degrade Flower
6. God Eater
7. Charming Maidens With No Skin
8. The Seven Virtues of Divine
9. Searching For The Beauty


Origin - Poland
Style - Death Metal

" Devilyn's 4th full-length, “XI”, is ultimately the band's best! "

" From the bands beginning years (about 10 years past), the technicality alongside the brutality keeps getting more vicious and precise. To those of you a little unfamiliar with Poland's Devilyn, they are kind of similar to Vader and Decapitated with more technical riffs! “XI”, or just “11”, consists of 9 tracks (8, without the 45 second intro) and is a very short 25 minutes playing time. Have the numbers confused you yet? Nevertheless, Devilyn boast of thunderous bass riffs, shredding rhythmic & technical lead guitars, absolutely brutal & precise pounding on the drums and Lord Worm-like vokills. “XI” is both diverse and uncompromisingly aggressive "


Fans of Decapitated, Vader and other well-produced, blasting death metal with a sense of brutal groove will likely dig this album.....


Songs Of Suffering !.........Are Here !

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Abramelin - ST (1995)


1. Misfortune
2. Grave Ideals (Nekromaniak)
3. Spiritual Justice
4. Humble Abode
5. Stargazer (The Summoning)
6. Stargazing (Stargazer II)
7. Deprived Of Afterlife
8. Invocation
9. Cantara (Dead Can Dance cover)

Origin - Australia
Style - Death Metal

" Abramelin's self-titled debut album is a demonically heavy, crushingly brutal and breathtakingly technical metal record that wades waist deep in gore of a level so visceral as to leave virtually any other band of their kind reeling in disbelief "

" Musically, this is a masterful album. By 1995, goregrind was a genre that was already running out of ideas and it would have been easy for Abramelin, a band that formed as Acheron around the same time as Cannibal Corpse, to merely go with the flow. Fortunately this was a band comprised of some remarkable musicians with an obvious if sinister purpose. Guitarist Tim Aldridge is clearly the star here. The technical aspects of his riffing and the complexity of his arrangements are simply mind-blowing. His playing is sharp and brutally aggressive but still possessed of a very clever melodic sense, and his lead playing is stylish in a late-era Carcass fashion. If that's not all, he throws in a gloomy classical guitar piece slap bang in the middle of the gruelling corpse-fucking epic "Stargazer". Behind Aldridge is the faultless time-keeping of one of the country's best but mostly unsung metal drummers in Euan Heriot, a natural and fluid player who blasts without falling back on triggers and tricks. Topping it all off is Simon Dower, who delivers his lines in a bowel-quakingly guttural roar "

Abramelin is one of the greatest Death Metal bands from austrailia... And after allowing this album to mince your soul you will surely understand why....Essential listening !


Requested by Machine


Relish The Blood !........And Then !

Havok - Being And Nothingness (2009)


1. Avaye Penhan
2. The Monsoon
3. A Pyrrhic Victory For Humanity
4. Iniquity
5. Paramount
6. Monologue With the Sky
7. Century of the Deviant
8. Stormfeed
9. The Ambulant Plague of Humans
10. Season of the Locust

Origin - Sweden
Style - Death Metal

" Havok's full length debut "

" This band is quickly becoming one of my favorite new-comers...After the terrific Ep 'Apathy Esplanade' 2008...Havok unleashes...What I would call Sophisticated Death Metal...What I mean is: Structures and tempo changes that arent your usual chugga...chugga riff patterns "

" This is in the Brutal Death Metal camp for sure but with some quite cool experimental atmospheric touches within the guitar work. Imagine some weird melodies and moody type of post rock elements packed between brutal blasts and freaky kinds of riffs. These are longer tracks than most..So I find that the more you listen the better it gets ! "

I hear fellow swede's Anata as a reference point..And Havok follows the same path of Highly artistic Creations......

This record does contain the songs from the ep..but with a better production !

Take a listen to one of the more adventurous and original sounding acts out there.


Propelled By Torture !........You Will !

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Axis Powers - Pure Slaughter (2005)


1. Atomic Winter
2. Pure Slaughter
3. Panzerblitz
4. Death in the East
5. Superior Stand
6. Soft Rotten Flesh
7. Evil Warriors
8. Ashes
9. I am Anyone
10. Hun in the Sun
11. Out of Order
12. Suicide Fuck (Abscess cover)
13. Superior Stand (taken from Tribute to I-17 split)
14. Land on Fire (taken from Tribute to I-17 split)


Origin - Sweden
Style - Death Metal

" Hell Yeah ! Underworld follower Gorth gave me this idea..."

" This is one of the few "real" death metal releases in the last few years...Another under-ground band playing the killer Old-School Style "

" Musically...'Pure Slaughter' has everything for the Swedish Old-School addict: 100% authentic Guitar sound from the sunlight days...Tracks that resemble Nihilist,Dismember,Carnage,Crematory etc., Straight forward songs that have no-frills...Just Brutal and Raw ! "

Axis Powers is not a re-invention of the wheel...But ancient Old-School worship at its finest !


For Fans of Kaamos,Repugnant and Any Ancient Death Metal....


Knights Of The Old Code !.......Get It!