Blaspherian Allegiance to the Will of Damnation | 4.0 |
Thunderous, primitive old school death metal with a voice of its own. |
Birth A.D. Stillbirth of a Nation | 4.0 |
Awesome thrash but not retro. It's alive! And it reminds me a lot of DRI, especially the vocals, but has its own style. |
Profanatica Profanatitas de Domonatia | 4.5 |
A development of the American black metal style that stays true to its roots but is not afraid to seek varied moods and techniques. |
Pestilence Resurrection Macabre | 1.0 |
Pestilence based their reputation on well-crafted riffs and songs. This has neither. It takes The Haunted style two-chord rhythm riffing with lots of complex edges, simple pop song structures, and repeats them ad nauseam. It's not heavy, it's boring. |
Absu Absu | 1.0 |
Absu return with an album lacking direction. It mixes death metal, heavy metal, black metal and progressive rock at random, never really managing to write a song but throwing every riff in the book at the listener. It's impressive technically but boring musically. |
Beherit Engram | 4.5 |
Beherit returns with an ambient/black metal crossover CD that uses many small ideas in collaboration to silhouette a big picture. Vicious, simple riffs build into trance-like, ritualistic songs whose subtle moods belie their primitive atmosphere. Come for the brutal darkness, stay for the emotional depth like the sudden descent of nightfall. |