Posts Tagged ‘FDA Records’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Tuesday, October 4th, 2022
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I blindly hit ‘play’ on Bexadde, on Germany’s FDA Records after getting the CD in the mail along with the new Slaughterday. With that moniker, I was maybe expecting some fuzzed-out stoner doom? But I certainly not modern atmospheric/post-black metal, not exactly what FDA Records is known for. […]
Tags: 2022, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, FDA Records, Post Black Metal, Review, Toadeater
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
For almost a decade, German duo Slaughterday has been rendering their Autopsy worshiping ( Slaughterday is a song from the Mental Funeral album) tones with 3 albums and a couple of EPs. And with album number 4, even with the word ‘doom’ in the title, they continue that trend with another killer album. With an album […]
Tags: 2022, Death Metal, Erik T, FDA Records, Review, Slaughterday
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, May 5th, 2022
Following up on 2020s excellent second album, Eisenzeit, Germany’s war-mongering death metal cohorts Scalpture (I’m still not sure what a Scalpture is…) return with album number 3, and boy is it a scorcher. Continuing the band’s war-obsessed themes and sound that’s part Hail of Bullets, part Asphyx (especially in the vocal department), and part Bolt […]
Tags: 2022, Death Metal, Erik T, FDA Records, Review, Scalpture
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
Sometimes production can make me overlook average or bad music. I’ll gladly listen to just OK albums if they have a killer guitar tone. Lord knows Ive got some pretty average CDs in my collection, that I retain merely due to the killer Stockholm HM 2 buzz (I’m looking at you Torture Pulse‘s God Leash), […]
Tags: 2022, Death Metal, Erik T, FDA Records, Feaces Christ, Grindcore, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Friday, April 8th, 2022
Here’s a short, tasty review for a short, tasty, 20 minute, 4 song EP from the always reliable FDA Records. Dead Chasm is an Italian trio with members from a number of mid-tier/obscure Italian acts like Kadaver, Torment, Funest, Stench of Profit, and others. But they have come together to form a very impressive debut […]
Tags: 2022, Dead Chasm, Death Metal, Erik T, FDA Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Thursday, January 6th, 2022
Here’s an interesting one from FDA records. Released a bit before the latest Ophis album, Spew Forth Odium, earlier last autumn, The Tragedy is the third album from this Finnish doom act whom I have never heard and frankly had very little expectations for. The logo, the band/album name, the fact there are hardly any […]
Tags: 2021, Cataleptic, Doom Metal, Erik T, FDA Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Monday, January 3rd, 2022
‘And in the category for 2021s most unreadable logo the nominees are……. Vomit Spell..’ So what do we have in the sea of red and sinewy and blood contained in the NecroFrsot artwork here? The debut from a new German grindcore quartet, that’s what. And while Germany isn’t a renowned hotbed of Grindcore (Japanische Kampfhörspiele […]
Tags: 2021, Erik T, FDA Records, Grindcore, Review, Vomit Spell
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021
Up until 2017s The aptly named The Dismal Circle, I was unfamiliar with Germany’s death-doom veterans Ophis (‘snake’), but that album was a solid effort with some suitably crumbling, hefty death/doom that had strains of classic Morgion engrained in the moping lumbers. And that has continued for album number 5, and is possibly even a […]
Tags: 2021, Death/Doom Metal, Erik T, FDA Records, Ophis, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, July 5th, 2021
I had high hopes for this, the second album from Sweden’s Deathswarm. It’s on FDA records, which is almost always a good sign. !t features members of cult Swedish act Sarcasm, and the promotional materials threw out words like ‘Bolt Thrower’ and ‘Dismember’. And even after opening tracks “We Still Burn” and “Unshackle the Jackal”, […]
Tags: 2021, Death Metal, Deathswarm, Erik T, FDA Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Monday, June 28th, 2021
So I’m finally getting to a couple of FDA Record’s releases from earlier this summer, Deathswarm’s Forward Into Oblivion, and this, the third full length album from Greece’s Rapture, a band I have not heard before. Both deliver what you’d expect from FDA Records at this point, but Rapture certainly has a bit of a […]
Tags: 2021, Death/Thrash Metal, Erik T, FDA Records, Rapture, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Thursday, December 17th, 2020
I have not heard Germany’s Dehuman Reign since I reviewed their debut EP, Destructive Intent, back in 2013. They released an album Ascending From Below back in 2016, but based on album number 3, not much has changed since the EP, as this is stout American death metal for fans of Cannibal Corpse, Monstrosity and […]
Tags: 2020, Death Metal, Dehuman Reign, Erik T, FDA Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020
I’m not sure what to think about this. Bourbon Souls is the debut from Helsinki six piece Stråle (shimmer/shine/glow), and it’s a pure hard rock/alternative record, the first such that I’m aware on the usually death metal orientated FDA Records. The thing is, it’s kinda fun. This is open window, driving own the highway, singing […]
Tags: 2020, Erik T, FDA Records, Review, Rock, Stråle
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Tuesday, April 14th, 2020
Germany’s FDA Records has stepped out of their comfort zone for a couple of their early 2020 releases. One is weird goth doom (Hraun), another, Stråle , is a Finnish melodic hard rock band , and the other this one, originates from Japan, the first release on the label from there after a pretty consistently German/European […]
Tags: 2020, Death Metal, E.Thomas, FDA Records, Invictus, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, April 7th, 2020
It’s been 7 years since super group Hail of Bullets called it quits after a solid run of three war mongering albums of trundling death metal. But fear not, Germany’s Scalpture is here to revive the ghosts of the past with their second effort of World War One themed death metal. That should be enough […]
Tags: 2020, Death Metal, E.Thomas, FDA Records, Review, Scalpture
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
Do you like early Asphyx? Do You like early, Drunen led, Consuming Impulse Era Pestilence? Then the always reliable FDA Records has a release for you, the full length debut from German death metal act Evoked, and it’s a scorcher of an album, despite its clear influences. Culling heavily from The Rack as well as […]
Tags: 2019, Death Metal, E.Thomas, Evoked, FDA Records, Old School, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Friday, December 7th, 2018
On Weak Aside’s last album, The Next Offensive, I had to go after the band’s lackluster moniker as the everything was else was so damn solid. This time, the German warmongers are just as good as before, so I’ll go after that eyesore of an album cover…. I digress, Forward Into Darkness continues the band’s confident and […]
Tags: 2018, Death Metal, E.Thomas, FDA Records, Review, Weak Aside
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews on Monday, August 27th, 2018
While Burial Invocation‘s Abiogenesis is getting the lion’s share of the attention in the realms of murky, Incantation-y death metal (and rightly so, it’s a killer release), the second album from Italy’s Eroded is just as good and certainly one of the best releases of the year in the now common place style. I have […]
Tags: 2018, E.Thomas, Eroded, FDA Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, May 25th, 2018
I dug the 2014 debut, Nightmare Vortex, from these German, Autopsy lovin’ ( Slaughterday is a song from the bands Mental Funeral album ) fiends, but for some reason completely missed the 2016 follow up, Laws of the Occult, which has been rectified since getting this EP for review, and its a little barnstormer of an EP The […]
Tags: 2018, Death Metal, E.Thomas, FDA Records, Review, Slaughterday
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Friday, May 4th, 2018
Germany’s Goregast have been at it since 2005, with 3 full length albums to their name including 2011s Desechos Humanos. They ply a form of slightly Swedish inspired death metal with some grindcore elements with lyrics in English, German and Spanish. Covered In Skin is a 10 minute, 3 song EP that was originally released […]
Tags: 2018, E.Thomas, FDA Records, Goregast, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
Sometimes it takes me a few songs or minutes to hear a band’s primary influence. Sometimes it takes less than 30 seconds. In the case of Switzerland’s veteran death metal act Requiem, precisely 16 seconds elapsed into opener “For the Blind to See”, I thought to myself “Holy shit, God Dethroned!”. This is the band’s […]
Tags: 2018, E.Thomas, FDA Records, Requiem, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Wednesday, February 7th, 2018
For three albums now, Finland’s Decaying have delivered their Bolt Thrower/Asphyx take on war themed death metal with solid results. But with the switch from Hellthrasher Productions to FDA Records, the band appear to have deiced to change things up a bit and spread their creative wings a little. Not that the band still does […]
Tags: 2018, Death Metal, Decaying, E.Thomas, FDA Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Thursday, January 25th, 2018
It’s been 5 years since Death Strike, the solid second effort from this Dismember/Grave worshiping Dutch act, and although this was released on vinyl and digital last year, I waited with baited breath for the CD version from FDA Records, and it was worth the wait. The formula is the same; well executed Dismember meets […]
Tags: 2017, Death Metal, E.Thomas, FDA Records, Massive Assault, Review, Swedish
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Thursday, January 18th, 2018
I was fairly impressed with Discreation’s 2015 effort Procreation of the Wretched , a solid European death metal record from a group of Germans I had never heard of. The album took a while to get going, but its last 2/3 was pretty damn good. End of Day, does not take a while to get […]
Tags: 2017, Death Metal, Discreation, E.Thomas, FDA Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Friday, December 15th, 2017
Taking a break form the recent onslaught of old school and Swedish death metal, Germany’s FDA Records have delved into the death-doom genre with the 4th full length album from Hamburg’s Ophis (“snake”), and it’s as successful and consistent as you’d expect from the label, despite the genre. The aptly named The Dismal Circle is […]
Tags: 2017, E.Thomas, FDA Records, Ophis, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Wednesday, December 6th, 2017
From the opening mid range chords of the introductory “Into the Fire” with strains of that classic Phantasm/”Left Hand Path” riff, you know exactly what you are getting from the debut of Germany’s Endseeker: Classic, Swedish styled death metal. And much like recent releases from label mates Lifeless and Blood of Seklusion, it delivers the goods, […]
Tags: 2017, E.Thomas, Endseeker, FDA Records, Review