Posts Tagged ‘Frank Rini’
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › F on Monday, May 29th, 2023
I reviewed the debut album, Crypt of Ice, in 2021, from newcomers Frozen Soul. I really enjoyed their previous demo material and the debut album furthered their sound in terms of musical ability and the songs fleshed out more. The comparisons to old-school bands like Obituary and mainly Bolt Thrower were some of the reasons […]
Tags: 2023, Century Media Records, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Frozen Soul, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, May 22nd, 2023
I do not purport to be an expert on all things Immortal, the long-standing Norwegian Black Metal band, but I do have some interesting things to share, probably more opinions than anything else, before delving into the band’s 10th album, War Against All. Until now I only followed the band from 1992-1996, so that is […]
Tags: 2023, Black Metal, Frank Rini, Immortal, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Thursday, May 18th, 2023
I really enjoyed Portugal’s Oak’s debut album, in 2019 – Lone. As one would expect with funeral death/doom metal the songs are ultra-long. The debut album had four songs and the album length exceeded 50 minutes. Lots of atmospherics and plodding and bludgeoning heaviness. The music never got into that sludgy type of style, just […]
Tags: 2023, Death/Doom Metal, Frank Rini, Oak, Season of Mist
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Tuesday, May 9th, 2023
France’s Esoctrilihum have released, since their inception in 2016, get ready for this… 10 studio albums and 2 ep’s. The one man band member is referred to as Asthâghul, and quite honestly the mystery surrounding him, and being a one man band, reminds me of the late great Quorthon from Bathory. He plays all […]
Tags: 2023, Death Metal, Esoctrilihum, Frank Rini, I Voidhanger Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
Switzerland is known for many things.. Celtic Frost, Coroner, Swiss Cheese, Algebra, beautiful Alps and add Aara to the list as they are one of the best atmospheric black metal bands around today. Triade III: Nyx is their fifth album and in their short existence since 2018 they have also released 2 ep’s along with […]
Tags: 2023, Aara, Black Metal, Debemur Morti Productions, Frank Rini, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › O on Monday, April 24th, 2023
I think it’s safe to say the Tri-State Area East Coast thrashers Overkill regained their mojo with 2010’s Ironbound album. They were also armed with a new label Nuclear Blast Records, where they have remained since. The four albums which followed were also pretty damn ass-kicking and that trend continues with Scorched, the band’s…wait for […]
Tags: 2023, Frank Rini, Nuclear Blast Records, Overkill, Review, thrash metal
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › M on Monday, April 17th, 2023
Well, well, well, what do we have here? The 12th album by the biggest metal band in the world. I consider it their 11th, because Garage Inc., while a great covers album, is an album of.. whelp, covers. I reviewed the last Metallica album Hardwired… to Self-Destruct in 2016 and I really enjoyed it and […]
Tags: 2023, Blackened Recordings, Frank Rini, Metallica, Review, thrash metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › 012 on Thursday, April 13th, 2023
Russia’s Experimental/Technical Brutal Death Metal band 7 H.Target return after a 9 year hiatus, since their killer third album in 2014 0.00 Apocalypse. Yantra Creating was supposed to come out at multiple different times prior to now, but due to a multitude of issues is just surfacing now. Since the last album, they have filled […]
Tags: 2023, 7 H.Target, Brutal Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › U on Wednesday, April 5th, 2023
20 Buck Spin hits another out-of-the-park homerun for 2023 with albums…yes, plural from California’s blackened death metal band Ulthar. My first experience with Ulthar was seeing them on their debut album tour, Cosmovore, as they toured with Misery Index. I became an Ulthar fan, picking up their cd and long sleeve shirt at the show. […]
Tags: 20 Buck Spin, 2023, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Ulthar
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › A on Monday, April 3rd, 2023
Swedish death metal played in the USA is more of a needle in a haystack type of deal. California’s now-defunct Fatalist was one of the better USA type of bands and they had a short run, with minimal output but their material still owns. Trying to find another band that, captured that buzzsaw Swedish sound, […]
Tags: 2023, Angerot, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Redefining Darkness Records, Review, Swedish Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Wednesday, March 29th, 2023
UK’s long-running doom mavens, Paradise Lost have been a hit or a miss for me. I’ll admit to being a tremendous fan of their first two albums Lost Paradise and Gothic mainly because of the doom/death/goth atmosphere, but after that, their material was a departure of that sound and just did not do it for […]
Tags: 2023, Frank Rini, Gothic Rock, Host, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Friday, March 24th, 2023
Kat Shevil Gillham is in yet another doom band, one of the bands she is the vocalist for heavy hitters Thronehammer, which is a personal favorite of mine. For Nine Altars she does vocals and plays drums and this is the debut album, 3 songs at over 30 minutes..yes these are some long ass songs. […]
Tags: Doom Metal, Frank Rini, Good Mourning Records, Journey's End Records, Nine A;ltars, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, March 20th, 2023
There is only 1 Suicide Silence album I do not have in my collection and if you guessed it was their self-titled affair from 2017 you would be correct. I am not a fan of that album or the musical direction they went in. I was especially disappointed in it after they released the great […]
Tags: 2023, Century Media Records, Deathcore, Frank Rini, Review, Suicide Silence
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › G on Monday, March 13th, 2023
France’s tech-death metal gods, Gorod, return with The Orb – their seventh album. Holy smokes I did not realize how time has flown by and the band is self-releasing this through Bandcamp. For me, the best tech-death metal bands are First Fragment, Gorod and Obscura. I know, I know there’s like a bajillion of tech-death […]
Tags: 2023, Base Productions, Frank Rini, Gorod, Review, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, March 7th, 2023
This collaboration of Obsequiae and Inexorum members has their take on Melodic Death Metal with elements of the Swedish scene – all wrapped up in a 90’s classic sound, that In Flames would be proud of…well this album kicks some major ass! With 10 songs in 39 minutes, “In Yearning, Alive”, starts abruptly, with a […]
Tags: 20 Buck Spin, 2023, Frank Rini, Majesties, Melodic Death Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Saturday, March 4th, 2023
Oklahoma’s PeelingFlesh was introduced to me relatively recent by our dear site owner Erik T. Their 2022 Slampilation Mixtape compilation combined all their previous singles and EP’s and the band has been busy writing since they formed in 2021. The band has yet to release a full-length album because now they grace us with this […]
Tags: 2023, Brutal Death Metal, Frank Rini, PeelingFlesh, Review, Slam, Vile Tapes
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
2018 saw the release of the debut album Warning Blast, by international band Siege of Power. I mean with a band name, named after one of the best Napalm Death songs ever-you cannot go wrong. Featuring members of Asphyx, Autopsy, Grand Supreme Blood Court, Hail of Bullets, Infidel Reich…I mean I can go on and […]
Tags: 2023, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Metal Blade Records, Review, Siege of Power
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
Two years ago, I reviewed Sanguisugabogg’s Tortured Whole debut album and previous to that I reviewed their Pornographic Seizures EP. With their debut album, I said “Sanguisugabogg’s blow-up throughout the underground metal scene is really only just the beginning”. And that is precisely what happened with the band right after the release of the debut. […]
Tags: 2023, Century Media Records, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Review, Sanguisugabogg
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Sunday, February 12th, 2023
New Jawsey’s finest brutal technical death metal act, and friends, Mortal Decay have been around for over 3 decades. Insanity! I have many fond memories playing shows with them and when I was back with Internal Bleeding in 2018 Johnny and Joe came to the show and had printed me a Mortal Decay logo shirt-so […]
Tags: 2023, Brutal Death Metal, Dissonant Tapes, Frank Rini, Mortal Decay, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Tuesday, February 7th, 2023
Bizarrekult hail from Norway, but originally was from Russia-go figure? Starting out in the mid ‘00’s the band went on hiatus a few times and really got their basic start in 2019 with the first EP, but it was in 2021 they released their debut album – Vi overlevde. I became an instant fan, especially […]
Tags: 2023, Bizarrekult, Black Metal, Frank Rini, Post Black Metal, Review, Season of Mist
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Tuesday, January 31st, 2023
Germany’s Atrocity has been kicking around their interpretation of extreme and oft-kilter brand of death metal for 30+ years. I stopped following the band after their 1992 album Todessehnsucht, although I do enjoy their 1996 ep The Hunt, weird? Their Hallucinations debut album, Blue Blood ep and Todessehnsucht material, imo are untouchable. Perfect blend of […]
Tags: 2023, Atrocity, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Massacre Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Wednesday, January 25th, 2023
Hailing from Greece, Wothrosch started in 2018 but Odium is their first and only album, and what a scorcher to start of 2023. We get 8 songs with one word titles and this guy appreciates that quite a lot. Opening with “Child”, it’s immediately evident this is some doomy sludgy black metal. Rather than having […]
Tags: 2023, Blackened Death Metal, Frank Rini, Hammerheart Records, Odium, Review, Wothrosch
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Thursday, January 19th, 2023
This album seemingly dropped out of nowhere towards the end of 2022, with an impressive array of musicians. Morbikon consists of: Matthias “Vreth” Lillmåns/vox (Finntroll, Festerday, etc), Quotidius/vox, Phil “Landphil” Hall/bass&guitar (Cannabis Corpse, Iron Reagan, Municipal Waste), Dave Witte (Municipal Waste, Brain Tentacles, Human Remains &1,000 other bands). The band is international, as you have […]
Tags: 2023, Frank Rini, Morbikon, Review, Tankcrimes
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Long-running UK trashers, Onslaught has been one of my fave thrash bands and certainly my fave UK thrash band since their 1985 debut Power From Hell, which I purchased on vinyl when it was released. To this day their second album The Force, from 1986, is still my favorite release from them, but all their […]
Tags: 2023, AFM Records, Frank Rini, Onslaught, Review, thrash metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, January 2nd, 2023
Late last year, I reviewed the new ep from resurrected brutal slam death metal band Necrambulant. I mentioned how much I loved their 2013 debut album Infernal Infectious Necro-Ambulatory Pandemic and the new ep A Feast of Festering Flesh is good. I did feel some of that putrid and filthy sludge that was on the […]
Tags: 2022, Brutal Death Metal, Frank Rini, Inherited Suffering Records, Invirulant, Review, Slam