Already the debut album from UNION OF SLEEP impressed me, but with 'Death In The Place Of Rebirth' this band has released their strongest effort to date. Here we have a heavy slab of dirty, hard pounding rock that beats ...
Believe me, I miss Penance. For me personally, they are on a par with bands as, for example, Saint Vitus or Pentagram and it was amazing to observe their musical development from the early days to the last album 'Spiritualnatural'. Penance made doom history in a small way and ...
Actually, I had hoped that Maryland's UNORTHODOX would return to Europe after fifteen years. Their latest album 'Awaken' was reason enough, because it displayed that they have not lost any of their force today and it would've been a pure pleasure to see them on stage again. But it wasn't so: ...
Germany's UNION OF SLEEP has delivered one of the most promising debuts in 2009. Unimpressed by current trends, their first record is a filthy, dirt-encrusted, hard-rockin' bastard that is not easy to pigeonhole. Some people call it doom and others say sludge, but apparently their heavy sound is caught ...
Outside it's getting spring but the French wrecking crew UFO GESTAPO brings back a filthy, rainy day in November with their debut EP that has been released through Calculon Records in 2008. Here's no room left for any life-affirming principles, and song titles like 'Fear Weed', 'Peace Crap' or 'Commander Mindfuck' ...
Finally, after fourteen years, Maryland’s UNORTHODOX is back with a new album in 2008! Although the band was almost still around, playing numberless shows in Maryland during the last years, it seemed to me that there was no big interest from founder Dale Flood to record another album. But at first ...
UPWARDS OF ENDTIME (From Genesis To Apocalypse And Beyond) CD
05/17/2008
Vocalist Phil Swanson belong to those kind of musicians, who are involved into a couple of different bands and projects and I'm surprised that he still has enough time for other things in life. One of this bands is UPWARDS OF ENDTIME, and once again Phil Swanson's characteristic voice is adding ...
When you combine sonic brutality with black psychedelia, one of the results can be something comparable to Italian’s UFOMAMMUT. Their extreme brute heaviness is based on monstrous and deformed Black Sabbath-riffs , which are enriched with an amount of special sound f/x, vocal samples and merciless grooves, while the distant vocals ...
NYC's occult fanatics are back with their second album, and I can report that they are absolutely "in the red". Not only soundwise, but also emotional although emotionally disturbed is maybe more appropriate for this scary vibes. But no matter, what kind of katharsis the band had gone through in the ...
This is the number five in the Southern Lord singles club, released 2001 and this time UNEARTHLY TRANCE are featured with two tracks. "Lord Humanless Awakens" is the first one, and it's hard to pigeonhole the music of this band. It's an uncompromising and intense mixture, enriched with weighty and sludgy ...
