Revocation are one of the best technical metal bands you will ever hear, and this incredible debut makes you wonder just how the Hell these guys aren’t touring with other tech metal giants. It’s just that fantastic. Techincal metal is an overcrowded genre these days, mostly because of all the prententious, boring bands that only care about showing off their talent, yet here comes a band that really enjoy themselves (Heck, Davidson even shouts “GUITAR!” before playing one of this solos) and they aren’t even getting a slice of the damn cake – and mind you, that’s a huge cake!…
From a novel by author Elizabeth Taylor comes the inspiration for Angel, the second English-language film by French director Francois Ozon. In many ways a throwback to the grand romances of Hollywood's Golden Age, Angel also features a wider range of sensibilities that would seem to attract attention from modern arthouse crowds. The story follows the life of young author Angel Deverell, whose force of will leads the audience on a journey from the imaginative aspirations of her youth all the way through her eventual death. A fierce personality for Angel and the story's willingness to toss in a tart now and then provide the film with spicy interest. Angel marks the fifth collaboration (since 2003) between Ozon and young French composer Philippe Rombi, who has shown the talent and promise of an international career that is yet unrealized. Without a doubt, Angel is the biggest spectacle to come out of Rombi's career as of yet, contributing to a belief that he very well could be an extension of (or replacement for) the late master of French romanticism, Georges Delerue. In many ways, Angel will be an absolute delight for fans of Delerue, mostly due to Rombi's unashamed, lyrical devotion to his three themes for the film.
Goregorecords, the death metal sublabel of Aural Music, present the highly anticipated new album “Psychonolatry” from italian Death Metal legends Electrocution. Over 25 years after their cult debut (1993 “Inside The Unreal”), “Psychonolatry” includes 11 new songs of supreme Death Metal. cover art designed by Gustavo Sazes (who previously worked with the likes of Arch Enemy and Morbid Angel).
It's been a whole decade since Eisenberg’s Deserted Fear shot onto death metal radars with their debut full-length My Empire. The German trio have set about making a steady name for themselves ever since, landing support slots with the revered likes of Morbid Angel and Morgoth, and signing to Century Media Records in 2016.
As an album, Doomsday manages to hold the line perfectly between old school death metal and melodic death metal. This album blasts forward with some colossal riffage, thundering rhythmic drums, powering the album forward and for a trio, this band know how to turn up the volume.
The Ltd. CD Digipak features two bonus tracks "Funeral Of The Earth" and a cover of In Flames entitled "Artifacts Of The Black Rain", which is known as an absolute classic in the melodic death metal scene.
Resurrected from the ashes of one of the most influential death metal bands of all time, Nocturnus, NOCTURNUS AD was initiated by Nocturnus founder/mastermind/death metal legend Mike Browning (also Morbid Angel co-founder) to continue the path that was laid down, almost 29 years later, by the legendary Florida death metal band’s seminal 1990 album “The Key”, an album recognized as one of the most important death metal albums of all time. “Paradox” is the direct and proper follow-up and follows the aftermath of the events that went down in “The Key”. On a musical plane, “Paradox’s” otherworldly, technical dark atmospheric occult death metal blueprint harnesses and carries on the energy of “The Key” and the overall cult death metal vibe of the early ‘90s in the singular forward-thinking way that Nocturnus exhibited. Musically overwhelming and pretty much a sonic attack on the senses from every angle, “Paradox” is sci-fi death metal reclaiming its throne back to its originators.
The start of the Gathering roots back to the year 1989. Close to the Dutch small town of Oss, the brothers Hans and René Rutten founded the band that was later called the Gathering, together with Bart Smits and other friends. Right from the start they decided to avoid the easy and obvious paths and meticulously modelled the individual band sound…
“The Entombment Of Chaos” is the fourth album by LA’s death metal act SKELETAL REMAINS, who have been inspired by the genre’s legends of the 80’s and 90’s like Death, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Obituary, Cannibal Corpse and Pestilence yet manage to combine old school roots successfully with an up-to-date, massive sound and their own inimitable intensity. On “The Entombment Of Chaos”, SKELETAL REMAINS now reach a new creative peak resulting their finest album so far. Vocalist/guitarist Chris roars like Schuldiner or Tardy in their heydays, plays leads that bear the melodic feeling of James Murphy - whose band Disincarnate SR covered this time around – whereas drummer Charlie Koryn (Ascended Dead) pummels the listener with his ferocious performance.