Tag Old School
For your average metal extremist, raw, unadulterated death metal is always going to be greatly appreciated. Those deeply satisfying, gravelly growls teamed with signature riffs and infectious grooves are guaranteed to get heads banging. One group paying a fantastic tribute… Continue Reading →
2012’s debut ‘Summoning Black Gods’ was an absolute smasher and now the German death metal crew are back with another killer record ‘The Mysterious Ways Of Repetitive Art’. On this album the band have clearly matured and have developed a… Continue Reading →
Destitution are a four piece thrash band from the Netherlands who formed in 2007 with one purpose – To create old-school Thrash metal without losing sight of melody, variation and composition. After Two EP’s, the band entered the studio in… Continue Reading →
Righto, I must first admit in the last few years on average I have bought more stoner/doom albums a fortnight then I have bought thrash albums per year. I don’t have any particular reason for this fact apart from the… Continue Reading →
I recognised the sender name on this envelope and assumed and happily prepared myself for a new Project Failing Flesh album. I was right in one respect as the disc had been sent by Tim Guttierez of industrial, experimental thrash… Continue Reading →
UK band Deceptor are it’s fair to say pretty old school heavy metal/thrash. No death metal here, just galloping rhythms and neck-break leads with occasional soaring vocals. And vocoder interludes. And songs about war, science fiction and so on. See?… Continue Reading →
Forget the latest trends, forget superhuman, athletic instrumentation, forget technicality and sophistication; if the world does end on the 21st December as some people claim the Mayans predicted, I want to be listening to something like Abysme. The band themselves… Continue Reading →
If like me you were bowled over by the hook laden gnarly down to earth abrasive harmonies of last Midnight album Satanic Royalty and wanted to see where the band started out this is the place to come. There were… Continue Reading →
If you’re a Satanic black metal band and you’re been churning out furious atmospheres for years, then even artistic creativity doesn’t allow you to experiment with another philosophy or music which would suit “Songs of Praise”. Well don’t worry. Besatt,… Continue Reading →
Formed last year and featuring musicians from Immortal Rites, Dawn of Dreams and Apophis, these German’s have a passion for the great genre that is old school death metal. Obviously, modern champions like Entrails and genre defining bands like Nihilist… Continue Reading →
Artist: DeathCult Title: Demo 2011 Type: Demo Label: SR Well someone obviously has convictions in their music to fire a 2 track demo CD across the pond from the USA to us. There are only 9 minutes or so of… Continue Reading →