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Sanctuaire – L’Empreiente de Lucifer – Full-length – 2011

L’Empreiente de Lucifer is a rather older release and the former of the overall two ever released by Santuaire. The band only added Sainte mort full-length album from 2014 to their discography and their activity ceased since. The trio is from France and all their lyrics are in French. What else to say about this album rather than they were not prepared to release one. The compositions se...

Absentation – Antimatter Rites – Full-length – 2020

Antimatter Rites is the fourth full-length album from the Syrian one-man-band Absentation. Mental Battle Resurrection was the first album released back in 2007 and since 2018 the band releases three new ones including the one I am about to review. With a couple of singles in-between the first and second full-length, Absentation takes on a more serious and hard-working approach with Ascending to Desolate ...

Absentation – The Intellectual Darkness – Full-length – 2020

The Intellectual Darkness is the third full-length album by Absentation and the one I prefer more compared to the fourth. The album has 8 old-school death metal tracks composed and recorded by one man. The artwork for the cover is amazing and depicts all of the dark philosophy themes expressed in the lyrics. Originally self-released, The Intellectual Darkness once more saw the light of day thanks...

Temple of Evil - 'The Second Awakening' - Full-lenght - 2015 

It took almost 8 years for this black metal band from Nicosia (Cyprus) to gather the record the material meant for their first ever release. Having a really generic band name Temple of Evil (with a really cool logo) really made me think about and remember all of the unmemorable generic black metal acts I have heard in all of my 22 years of life. I...

Second to Sun - 'The First Chapter' - Full-lenght - 2015

The band Second To Sun originates from the Russian Federation as a dark instrumental formation. Not so long ago, only four years count since their first EP entity - The God’s Favorite Whore, released the same year the band was formed. The first line-up is quite modest and consisted of Vladi...

Ulver - 'ATGCLVLSSCAP' - Full-lenght - 2016

Recently I came across this band originally formed in Oslo, Norway in 1993. By then they went through a serious transformation of style and approach to the music they create. Ulver originated as a black/folk metal band, with couple of recorded albums in the genre. Later, they take on a new adventure experimenting with different types of music and instrum...

Battlecreek - 'Hate Injection' - Full-lenght - 2015

Battlecreek is a Bavarian thrash metal band that follows the paths of humorous thrash and independent production. Starting in 2004 in the German metal underground, with mutual efforts Andreas (Bass), Phil (Drums), Chris (Guitars) and Berne (Vocals) self-released a demo (Demolition) in 2008, a first full-length album (Wake the plag...

Amken - 'Adrenaline Shot' - EP - 2014

Amken is a brand new thrash quartet rising from the Greek underground basements to provoke every thrasher’s taste for spiced up metal joy. The band was originally formed in 2011 in Athens, a place where many new bands appear and a real struggle is required to stand out from the bunch. By not, Amken gave the metal world only one release in 2014 named Adr...

Fifth to Infinity - 'Omnipotent Transdimentional Soulfire' - Full-lenght - 2015

Fifth to Infinity is a band formed back in 1997 by Martin Mendez, Martin Lopez and Nader Jonas Reslan in Sweden, after the disbandment of the black metal gang Vinterkrig. Officially their first album was planned to be released...

Pokerface - 'Divide and Rule' - Full-lenght - 2015

Pokerface are a new comer on the underground thrash metal scene, enraged and guided by the cold Moscow spirit. These Russians released their first full-length this year and are a great turn-on for all thrash metal enthusiasts. Only two years after their start-up in 2013, Maniac (lead guitars), Nick (guitars), Doctor (drums), Free Rider (ba...