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You chose the song, ’Treading’ from your very first demo (2001) to re-record and put on Obsidian. Why? The 1st (split) demo was released in 2003 in fact. The song as it appeared on that demo could have been recorded better, so that’s what I did. I asked a friend to play...

Allfader – At Least We Will Die Together 2006, Osmose Productions By Katalin Sipos I was completely unfamiliar with this Norwegian band when the promo arrived in my mailbox. The press release said they play brutal, melodic, dark metal, and I expected something similar to Sentenced but...

For Ruin – Obsidian 2006, Self-financed, demo By Katalin Sipos Obsidian, For Ruin’s’ third demo, was released last October. It took slightly more than a year for the band to come up with new material after Shade, and also proved a busy period with numerous gigs and an appearance on an...

Angtoria - God Has A Plan For Us All Listenable Records, 2006 By Katalin Sipos Sarah Jezebel Deva is well-known for her work with Cradle of Filth, Therion, Mortiis,Graveworm, The Kovenant and more. Her enchanting and unique vocals gained her countless fans among female and male metalheads. In...

Amon Amarth – With Oden On Our Side Metal Blade - 2006 By Katalin Sipos Our favourite vikings are back. With Oden On Our Side is the sixth full-length in Amon Amarth’s discography. The music is still viking metal, in this case melodeath with lyrics based on the band’s viking...

Autopsy – Dark Crusades Peaceville Records DVDVile5 2006 By Katalin Sipos When Chris Reifert left Death in 1987 (after the release of Scream Bloody Gore), he moved to San Francisco and shorty afterwards Autopsy was formed. After releasing two demos they signed to Peaceville Records, and...

Angel Blake – Angel Blake Metal Blade Records 2006 By Katalin Sipos It is difficult to forget about the past of our favourite musicians when it comes to their new bands. No matter what they say, most of the time we expect something similar to what they had created before. But when Marko...

Animus Herilis – Recipere Ferum Adipocere Records FPG30 2005 by Katalin Sipos Animus Herilis formed in 1993 but surprisingly their first album, Recipere Ferum got released only last year. They come from France, and play old-school black metal in its purest form. Forget about cheesy...

Ram - Forced Entry Black Path Metal Recordings, BPMR003, 2006 By Katalin Sipos Though most of my beloved Scandinavian groups are creating music on the extreme branches of metal, so far I have never been disappointed with any Scandinavian band, no matter which genre of metal they were playing...

Exhumed - Garbage Daze Re-Regurgitated Listenable, 2005 By Katalin Sipos It became kind of a trend for extreme bands to release cover albums. The most famous ones are the Leaders Not Followers series by Napalm Death or Graveyard Classics by Six Feet Under, but even such underground acts as...

Where did you record Heralding and who was the producer? The first attempt to record it was at a small studio in Düsseldorf about ten years ago. The rerecording now took place at the Tidalwave Studio in Germany. I cannot say how long it took all in all in the end, as the recordings were...

For Ruin - When cultures meet By Katlin Sipos When I got For Ruin’s second work, Shade for review, I was a bit skeptical; ‘another death-black metal project’ I thought, so I did not expect too much. But as soon as I started to listen to Shade I was hooked, and now I can say For Ruin was the...

Chickenhawk – ‘Its kind of like having a baby’ By Katalin Sipos Being innovative in music might mean that people will not understand you, or will misinterpret your work. Leeds-based Chickenhawk proved a confusing first listen, but a few spins later, picture became clear. Every open minded...

The Storyteller – Underworld Black Lodge, 2005 By Katalin Sipos The Storyteller are from the northern part of Sweden. They formed in 1995 and Underworld is already their fourth full-length album. Due to the explosion in the power and heavy metal genre that happened in the last couple of...

For Ruin – Shade Self-financed – demo - 2005 By Katalin Sipos Ireland’s For Ruin is a one-man band by John Murphy. According to the biography the band has existed since 2003 and Shade is already the band’s second demo. Perhaps we should date its existence back to 1998 becuase the first...

Chickenhawk - Demo 2005 Self-released Demo – 2005 By Katalin Sipos Where does it lead if you have a weird sense of humour - that might be simply labeled as stupidity by some - and a weak side for guitar driven extreme music, without paying attention to the ‘unwritten rules’ of any genre, just...

Various Artists – 10th Year Of Obscene Existence 2005, Obscene Productions By Katalin Sipos Compilation albums are mostly released in order to celebrate something; a nice carreer or an anniversary or… there are countless reason to celebrate, it is always just about how we feel. Though in the...

Caninus – Now the Animals Have a Voice War Torn Records - 2004 By Katalin Sipos We don’t usually ask readers to consult a manual before going through a review, but in this case I feel the need to do so. Thus, dear reader, please consider the following when deciding to peruse this article...

Drifting Breed – Hope Hereafter Self-released – 2005 By Katalin Sipos The concise letter accompanying the CD described this as brutal metalcore from Paris, so initially I expected some ultra-heavy metalcore banging right into my head from the speakers. However, the promo CD I found in the...

Because your music assimilates them. So it’s hard to tell who is doing what. Yeah, but you know, it’s not important to me and in the end it is the result that matters. Of course. To me, anyway. I really don't feel like going into it. Okay. On Perdition City you had this new direction...