It was the year 1992, when Hellhound Records released the second album of Doom Metal vikings COUNT RAVEN. Two years have passed since their magnificent debut 'Storm Warning', and in the meantime Christian Linderson did leave the band to join Saint Vitus...
The former Czechoslovakia was an extremely inspiring ground for a lot of devoted Thrash Metal bands, who have been also influenced by the first wave of Black Metal like Bathory f. e...
Wow, what for a brilliant second album from UK's heavyweights CENTURIONS GHOST! I'm not sure, what was responsible for this giant step forward, that the band did with 'The Great Work', but their development since 2001 is impressive. 'A Sign Of Things To Come' was a strong debut, but this here is superior stuff...
Finally, after all this years Cyclone Empire re-released all four COUNT RAVEN albums, and I'm fucking glad, that they did it, because this four Doom Metal milestones should be available for everyone, who calls themselves a real Doom Metal fan. I could bore you with all my memories, that are connected with every album and the concerts, but I try to focus on the music...
I don't know any other Doom label, that released so much top-notch stuff in 2005 as Sweden's I Hate Records. No matter if you listen to Thee Plague Of Gentlemen, Isole or Burning Saviours - every band got its very own style, showing the world outside, that Doom is vital and offers more than a rehash of the 80's...
In the band-info one can read that this German band absolutely knows what they want and that they have their shit together. But I have to disagree, especially about the first point! This four-tracker is a twisted thing for me, due to the diverse quality of the here recorded cuts...
Once again, Shifty Records shows the world with this compilation, why they belong to the best US-labels specialized on heavy sludge, doom and other sorts of extreme heaviness. As on the first issue of "Crushers Killers Destroyers", we find a high-quality selections of songs from more or less-known bands, and, as it should be for a good compilation, all songs are previously unreleased...
CIRCULUS (A Lick On The Tip Of An Envelope Yet to Be Sent) CD
Oct/19/2005
Not really psychedelic, CIRCULUS are a folk influenced band of seven musicians from the UK. They have perfected an amalgam of rock, medieval music and various traditional folk styles which could, I suppose, be called folk rock...
CAMBIAN DAWN (Wastrel Children Of An Insane Universe) MCD-R
Oct/19/2005
It's been two years ago, when I received the first demo from this UK band, and at this time their sound was mainly influenced by bands as Saint Vitus, Pentagram and very early Sabbath. But in opposite to some other heavy doom bands, CAMBIAN DAWN was just more than a boring repetition of what once was fresh and interesting...
Here's an album to make your ears bleed! Canadian's CURSED infects the listener with an aggressive and testosterone-drenched sound, that draw influences from death metal, hardcore and crust. Of course, CURSED are brutal as fuck, and all members have played in several other bands, which are totally unknown to me and name-dropping doesn't make sense in every review so I will spare you with it...
