Outside Italy, Epitaph, originating from the beautiful city of Verona, aren’t that known at all. They were actually formed in the Eighties, and did release three demos, but that’s about it. And now, finally, almost three decades after their birth, Epitaph come up with their debut studio full length album, called Crawling Out Of The Crypt. It seems to be a mostly fitting title, isn’t it…
Emblazoned are an ‘old’ American act, finally coming up with their debut full length. You’re welcome…
Eucharistiae Sacramentum stands for half an hour of fast, energetic, rhythmic, tight and solid War / Death Metal of the ‘timeless’ kind (i.e. based on tradition without being retro, and modern without being progressive), including some hints of Black Metal (especially when it comes to the sphere) and Old School Morbid Doom-Death Metal.
Dimension is a band that hails from Denver – Colorado, and this is their third release after their 2002 debut ‘Universal’ and the 2007 album ‘Ego’, both released by Nightmare Records.
There was an artistic collaboration of German and Russian painters, shortly before the First World War, who were active as ‘Der Blaue Reiter’. Amongst them, by the way, Wassily Kandinsky (if I am not mistaken, this partnership was named after a painting by this expressionist artist) and Paul Klee, both of them pretty well-known names, I think. But this isn’t an exposé about the history of pictorial art; this chronicle deals with a 21st-century musical group, of course.
I was quite charmed by 2011’s Subliminal Visions, my first acquaintance with Polish band Deep Desolation, released via The End Of Time Records. So I was quite happy when the very same label, which has a very interesting roster lately, did send us the successor of Subliminal Visions, Rites Of Blasphemy.
Crossnail is the band formerly known as Teodor Tuff (The band subsequently did support shows for both Whitesnake and Deep Purple.)
Once again Transcending Obscurity will introduce an Indian Extreme Metal band to the worldwide scene, after, for example, Toxoid, Chaos, Gypsy, Orion or Halahkuh (distributed via Transcending Obscurity or released via Transcending Obscurity India). Also neighbor countries such as Bangladesh (Morbidity) and Nepal (Dying Out Flame) have been promoted in mean time.
Vomit Bucket Productions are an underground DIY-label from Germany, started by a guy who calls himself Gag (named after the movie?). Actually it was founded in 2007 in order to release the Vomitous Discharge-recording Festering Carcass Covered With Rot (pro-CD-r) (though, there was some material before as well), and since Vomitous Discharge are an outfit by Gag… Got the picture?
It took quite a while, for The Lurking Corpses’ last album was released in 2008 (Smells Like The Dead). Okay, there was the re-issue of their 2003-debut 23 Tales Of Terror in September 2013 (update of the review undersigned did: see October 19th 2013), which was re-released to celebrate this band’s tenth anniversary, but new stuff, no, that has been too long, way too long. Until now… This band from Indiana, U SS A, have always amused me with their Horror Metal, though not one effort I know from them was really mind-blowing, I think.
Thanatos from Holland can be considered as one of the first wave of European Thrash bands as their history goes back as far as the mid eighties... GLOBAL PURIFICATION is the 6 th full length release since.
