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HACKMAN (Enterprises) CD

The follow-up to HACKMAN's debut 'The New Normal' is hard to digest. It's a heavy chunk of brutal repetitive riffs, that force their way relentlessly through your brain. The guitar riffs have immense penetration power while the loud production intensifies that effect. Again, the vocals on 'Enterprises' are sparsely used but ...

HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM (Gold From The Sea) CD

I've a fleeting memory about that French band, and if I hadn't received their first full-length album 'Gold From The Sea' I would've forgotten about their existence. That's not sad, because their second demo from 2006 was nothing that I really enjoyed. Cheesy keyboard sounds, a weak production and third-class riffs ...

HEDORAH (s/t) CD-R

The conjunction of noise and heavy riffs can be an awful bore when it's execution is aimless and witless. Fortunately HEDORAH belongs not to this category, and so it was a real pleasue for me to review this copy from Crucial Bliss, a sub-division of Crucial Blast. HEDORAH is James P. ...

HIGHGATE (s/t) CD

It's time for a new release from the Israeli record label Totalrust Music, and here we have the debut of the US-band HIGHGATE. If you know more about the concept of Totalrust Music, then you already aware of the fact that this isn't the next load of groovy 70's rock or ...

HACKMAN (The New Normal) CD

My first impression after listening to the debut album from HACKMAN was that this three guys must have a big fondess for Karma To Burn. Some of the seven songs have the same structures and most of them are instrumental, but it's obvious that HACKMAN have enough potential to create their ...

HOUR OF 13 (s/t) LP/CD

Shadow Kingdom Records have an extraordinarily off-putting start in 2007 with their first two releases. The first one was the excellent album of Stygian Shore and this here is the second one that is also the first full-length of US-Doom Metal band HOUR OF 13. Obviously, Tim's  record label is only ...

HERMANO (Live At W2) LP/CD

After the successful release of HERMANO's second studio album "Dare I Say..." in 2005, Suburban Records comes up with new stuff, and this time it's a live-recording from the band's last European tour, where they also played at the "W2" in Belgium. At this night, it must have been a good ...

HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM (s/t) MCD-R

This obscure band, consisting of only two musicians, merge the nihilistic raw doom-soaked sound of the first Type O Negative album with the funeral goth crawl of Thergothon, without being as brilliant as both bands. By the way, Type O Negative should have split-up after 'Bloody Kisses', but that's another story. ...

HELLISH CROSSFIRE (Slaves Of The Burning Pentagram) CD

"Hellish crossfire on wooden coffins"; this sentence will always remind me to the mighty Hellhammer, because this was the morbid description, their drummer used for his style of playing. This German Thrash Metal outfit has not much in common with Hellhammer, soundwise, but they are strongly influenced from that kind of ...

HEAVY LORD (From Cosmos To Chaos) CD

I still remember the times, when doom-infected sludge was a musical style, that wasn’t very popular. But this has changed, and it looks as if  there’s a invasion of  sludge bands, who all try to be more interested in being badass of fucked-up or whatsoever, instead of creating an own musical ...

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