Poland is one of the Europe´s most vital and prolific scenes regarding extreme music meaning death and black metal with so many names coming to mind right away, both more and less known in the genre. Baalzagoth are new band in the scene and this is their debut full length opus. This is, how they say it, intergenerational band with singer being 46 years old and drummer being only 13. No matter, music has no boundaries and Baalzagoth deliver on this opus, with intro plus eight songs of death metal with some black metal influences thrown here and there. Songs range from thrashy and blast beats speed to more slower rythmic approach, like panzer rolling over helpless infantry in some frozen field. Underneath aggression and brutality, you can find some melody and melancholy influenced by black metal touches. Vocals are superb, death metal growl, brutal yet understandable. Songs like Unholy War, Suffering, Pagan´s Hell are sure to be your favorite if you check out this record, but you will hear it for yourself. Good and strong debut.
The Italian death metal band, Hellucination, realesed the official video of the single “Iron Sky” from their last album “Multiverse” out via Time to Kill Records.
The video shows their concert at Traffic Live Club in Rome, Italy, they want to share the atmosphere of the Italian underground scene.
Denomination are from Germany and after one e.p., this is their first full length opus. This one contains 13 songs, two of them being intro and outro. After an ominous war fueled intro, the carnage starts. Denomination play old school death metal, leaning heavily on European school, mainly nineties old school Swedish death metal, not sounding like a clone, but bringing the style to new millennia. There are also blast beats, but I love how some songs also have that unmistakable d beat insignia and great strong growling vocals, coupled with razor sharp guitar riffs, but hiding behind all the brutality, there lays a melody, and that melody brings a melancholy to chaos, a pain to war if you want to put it that way. Songs like Bugs, Left hand of god, Cleansing flames are sure to win you over if you are a fan of such kind of death metal. This is a very strong debut album and a lesson in Euro death metal, how it should be done.
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