Filmed live in the bands practice space on a single fixed camera, Italian Sludge Metal riffs galore are brought to the King’s table by Neker with “A Kind Of Pain” in glorious black and white. The trio who still sound very much like they belong in New Orleans and sharing stages with Crowbar have their
The scourge of their native Italy since their 2011 self titled debut album dropped, Rabid Dogs have returned once again with a fifth record in those eleven years via fast rising Italian label Time To Kill Records. Known for their crushing blend of frantic extremity that mixes a Molotov Cocktail of Grindcore, Sludge and Metal
A rare breed, “Projections” by Italian Metallers Across The Swarm was one that we reviewed prior to the Pandemic only to have to hold onto it, unpublished until the rescheduled release date. It comprises seven deadly sins recorded at Domination Studios by Simone Mularoni and Simone Bertozzi (Gory Blister, Rhapsody, Labyrinth) and mixed by Steve
They may have waited a year to release “Projections” but not only was it worth the wait, but the album from Italian stallions Across The Swarm is also worth it’s weight in Gold, something that Time To Kill Records will testify to in court. They’ve given us pro-shot footage of “Knowing Became Doing” from their
As an album “Exhumed Information” continues the Death Metal tribute from Fulci as a tribute to cult Italian film director Lucio Fulci’s filmography. Conceptually based on the 1991’s “Voices from Beyond” it also draws inspiration from bands like Cannibal Corpse and Obituary as well as the macabre thrills of 80’s horror soundtracks to films from Fabio
Joining a growing stack of promising new records set for 2022 is “Black Cowslip” the fourth from Italians Rabid Dogs, a band who enjoy mixing grindcore, sludge, punk and rock & roll with pulp themes inspired by cult cinema. The result is a crushing blend of frantic extremity that takes place in “spaghetti-land” and will
Making up for lost time after making the difficult decision to delay their album “Projections” by six months until September 2020 due to the Global Pandemic situation, Italian Death Metallers Across The Swarm finally gave us one of the finer records of the year. They’ve given us pro-shot footage of “Knowing Became Doing” from their
Once again performing surgery on their album “XLIX“, a concept album loosely based on “The Prince”, the renowned book written by Niccolò Machiavelli in the XVI century, Italian Death Metallers Crawling Chaos have extracted “Block And A Bloody Knife” from it to present in lyric video form. The album is of course out now via
Named after cult Italian film director Lucio Fulci earlier this summer Italian Death Metallers Fulci unveiled a concept album based on the 1991 low budget film “Voices from Beyond“. Entitled “Exhumed Information“, their third studio album was recorded at Till Deaf Recording Studios by Ando Ferraiuolo before being mastered by to Arthur Rizk (Power Trip,
Releasing new material every two years since their inception in 2013, Russian Hellhounds Andrey Kovalev (vocals), Eugene Kagencev (guitars), Dmitry Golyashev (guitars, bass) and Alexey Semenov (drums, vocals) have given their band Hellbomb lethal injections of Black Metal, Death Metal and Hardcore in developing their own uniquely extreme sound in Metal. Raging through the Russian Underground
