Album Reviews

Obituary – Obituary

17th March 2017 Reinier de Vries

A new Obituary album is like a cold beer on a hot summer’s day. You are looking forward to it with thirst, you know exactly what to expect, and it never disappoints. From the first tune [Read »]

Album Reviews

Memoriam – For The Fallen

12th March 2017 Thomas Nielsen

When Bolt Thrower announced that they would no longer continue following the untimely demise of Martin Kearns, I was gutted. It had become a bit of a crusade for me to see the near legendary [Read »]

Album Reviews

Sinister – Syncretism

20th February 2017 Reinier de Vries

In 1989 Gorefest, Dead Head and Sinister all started their career and another Dutch death metal act God Dethroned followed a year later. Gorefest already quit, but the others are still alive. The most productive [Read »]

Live Reviews

Aalborg Metal Festival 2016

20th November 2016 Thomas Nielsen

Aalborg Metal Festival Venue: Studenterhuset, Aalborg, Denmark Dates: 11th and 12th of November For those of you ignorant wretches out there who know nothing about Danish geography, I can share that Aalborg is a town [Read »]

Live Reviews

Battle of the Bays 2016

9th November 2016 Thomas Nielsen

I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw the announcement of the Battle of the Bays billing. Obituary, Exodus and Prong sharing stage in a fairly small venue? Almost too good to be true, but [Read »]

Album Reviews

Vader – The Empire

2nd November 2016 Reinier de Vries

For a Dutchman the band name Vader is a strange and almost religious sounding one. It is the Dutch word for father, dad and in prayers we use Vader for Lord. I don’t think this was the intention when [Read »]

Album Reviews

Brujeria – Pocho Aztlan

25th October 2016 Thomas Nielsen

Although this review should in fact have been done weeks ago, there’s something highly appropriate about finally writing it at this point in time. I happen to be in Mexico on a business trip, and [Read »]

Album Reviews

Decomposed – Wither

30th September 2016 Reinier de Vries

Sweden’s Decomposed grew into a band in 2010, shortly after being conceived as a pure one-man Death Metal project. A year later the Stench of Death demo was recorded, which led to the self-titled debut [Read »]