Authors: THE BUTCHER
Review: Funerus – Festering Earth
Funerus Festering Earth Ibex Moon Records The first demon to escape the gates this month is Funerus, a side project of Incantation mastermind John McEntee. Funerus play abysmal and turgid death metal, with the occasional outburst of speed. They usually keep things slow or mid-paced, though. This is a good example of what
Review: Estuary – To Exist And Endure
Estuary To Exist and Endure Ibex Moon Records Also from back east is Estuary, with To Exist and Endure. This band started out as Estuary of Calamity, and had a more melodic beginning, adding keyboards and black metal vocals, among other effects. Now, they’ve stripped down their sound, ditched the pretty keys and sissy black
Review: Enthroned – XES Hareticum
While most BM bands annoy me with their vocalists constantly screeching into the microphone, Enthroned’s vocalist is actually the focal point of the band for many people. … read more
Review: Death Du Jour – Fragments of Perdition
If you are into Drawn and Quartered, Mortician, Centinex or anything in between, you should own this release of Death Du Jour! … read more
Review: Carpathian Forest – We’re Going To Hollywood For This...
CARPATHIAN FOREST WE’RE GOING TO HOLLYWOOD FOR THIS DVD Seasons of Mist Carpathian Forest = Satyricon + Dark Throne + Bethlehem + Dissection From Norway, Carpathian Forest play black metal. Not interested yet? What about seeing them live? Still not interested? What about the nude dancers they have come out on stage during every
Review: Bloody Sign – Vana Vingala Loits
Bloody Sign Vana Vigala Loits Ibex Moon Records Like their fellow death-metal countrymen Mercyless and Phazm, Bloody Sign manage to combine the speed with guttural heaviness while keeping things interesting the whole way through the disc. You might say they come across as sounding like a slightly less sepulchral and less down-tuned version of Incantation.
Review: Bloodbath – Nightmares Made Flesh
Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh Century Media Records Sweden is home to a lot of totally shitty bands these days. Bloodbath is not one of them. This band has actually existed for almost six years now. Don’t let the founding members’ more accessible full-time gigs (Edge of Sanity, Opeth) fool you—Bloodbath is a serious nod
Review: Anal Vomit – Demoniac Flagellations
The name Anal Vomit makes one expect this band to be yet another ridiculous gore-grind band — not so! … read more
Review: Aborted – The Archaic Abattoir
The gore vocals are in the mix, but … do these styles mix? NO! Stop the madness!!! Remember the dead, Aborted! Seek out Carcass. … read more
All Systems Fail
In a world of people that think a bowl cut and a wardrobe from Hot Topic is what punk is all about, the true essence of what the punk movement originally set out to achieve has been lost. Or has it? Not according to Salt Lake City’s hardcore punkcrust entity All Systems Fail. SLUG talked
Review: Choosing Death: The Improbable History Of Death Metal and...
CHOOSING DEATH: THE IMPROBABLE HISTORY OF DEATH METAL AND GRINDCORE ALBERT MUDRIAN AND JOHN PEEL Feral House Books Street: 10.01.03 This book reaches deep into the earth and pulls out the roots of grindcore and death metal from Day One. Picking up from about the time that the thrash and crossover movements died off, the
Review: Lords of Chaos: The Boodly Rise Of The Satanic...
LORDS OF CHAOS: THE BLOODY RISE OF THE SATANIC UNDERGROUND (REVISED SECOND EDITION) MICHAEL MOYNIHAN AND DIDRIK SODERLIND Feral House Books Street: 11.01.03 If you are into black metal in any way, read this! It will give you an understanding of what black metal is and of the definite divisions that exist within its ranks.
