Author: deshift00

DEMO SHOWDOWN 1 Besides doing regular album reviews I wish to start showcasing demos and EPs and shorter smaller releases to help smaller and newer bands out there. I’ll be doing a short little paragraph of a review for each release, summing up how I feel and describing the sound of the releases as well….

Yith, a Blackened Doom project hailing from the US provides us with their latest release, Passage. A truly frigid album, yet short album that is heavy on the atmosphere, heavy on the distortion, and just all around heavy. The third full length release here only sports six moderately length tracks, with the sixth track being…

  Its not often an album moves me as much as this one does. Human Serpent, hailing from Greece, have come together to create one of the most soul crushing and emotionally brutal album. It is a bleak outlook towards one own self, and to quote from the band, ‘It is a physical manifestation of…

 Meat Puppets, a unique band that fuses Punk-Rock, Psychedelic rock, and Country in one chaotic and vibrant amalgamation, was formed in 1980 by brothers Chris and Curt Kirkwood along side their friend and drummer, Derrick Bostrom. The band started out with a more pure punk sound with fast aggressive drums and screaming, warbling vocals from…

Eric Burdon, our charming ringmaster in this musical circus, introduces us to War’s first official album release, ‘Eric Burdon Declares War‘. Released in April of 1970, this album introduced the world to the now legendary funk-fusion super-group War, with Eric Burdon of ‘The Animals‘ fame, lending his sultry and harsh voice to the band for…

 While Teitanblood may hail from Spain, their true essence comes from the burning pits of Hell. The band which formed in 2003 by guitarist and vocalist NSK, prefers to stay hidden, refusing most interviews and would rather express his true feelings through his music, and boy does it show. A rather short, yet impactful discography,…

 Lifelover, a truly odd band which has a strange place in the Black Metal scene. To truly pin point a genre or a distinct sound to this band would be doing them a disservice. Lifelover, formed in 2005 by Kim Carlsson and Jonas Bergqvist (also known as B in the band), created a truly chaotic…

The pounding of hooves rumble to earth beneath you. Peering up the hill you see a horde of horse-backed warriors line the hill-top, the sun making their bronze armor shine a blinding light. But the sky grows dark as a wave of arrows block out the sun, blanketing the land below them in a hellish…

  Its 1988, you walk into your local record store and notice a strange imported record from Italy with a man sitting on a pile of skulls dressed like some sort of demonic creature. With your curiosity getting the better of you, you decide to pick it up and give it a try. How bad…

Black Mass for a Mass Grave, the latest album released by the celestial messengers and black metal legends Inquisition, a two-man band with founder, guitarist, and vocalist, Dagon accompanied by drums played by Incubus. These two have been spreading the word of Cosmic-Luciferianism through their music, characterized by Dagon’s distinct play style of using the…