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Dark Covenant (Canada): Dark Covenant Dark Covenant projects classic doom upon the landscape of this 22-minute, four-song extrapolation of s...

Licurgo (Spain): Strongest One of the best things about these traditional, no-nonsense black-metal-hellhearts Licurgo is their ability to ca...

Escape From (Poland): Opętani okrucieństwem “Obsessed by Cruelty” is what the title means, according to the band. The lyrics are in Polish, ...

Allmacht (Germany): In namenlosen Tiefen These black metallers Allmacht (based in Lübeck, in the state of Schleswig-Holstein) go for maximum...

Diamanthian (U.K.) The previous issue of Metal Bulletin zine observed: -- Diamanthian (U.K.): Arcana Doctrina (Ossuary Industries) There is ...

Six Feet Under (U.S.): Graveyard Classics 3 This is an album of covers of songs like “A Dangerous Meeting” by Mercyful Fate, “At Dawn They S...

Elathan (Spain): Atrac a otsirc Think raw, minimalistic, barbed wire black metal recorded in a cave. Elathan is more lo-fi than that. “For t...

Deathfinest (Ohio, U.S.): Path ov Death The drums and vocals are performed by King who is dad to the other two musicians on here, Raven (bas...

Interview: Conqueror (Costa Rica) A review in issue number 23 said, speaking of the band’s “In the Depths of Darkness”: -- The constant-stro...

Dominant Obscurity (France) Massive black metal riffs, of the big-riff type: “Fall of the Unlucid” (7:39) is a good illustration: the firs...

Suicide Silence (U.S.): No Time to Bleed Something like angry emo/core with with chugga-chugga breakdowns and the hardcore: angry rock playe...

Fear Factory (U.S.): Mechanize This music relies on a very clicky, robotic, plastic sound: like it has a lot of loop and sample/cut and past...

Interview: Azarath (Poland) The drummer Inferno, who handles bashing duties for Behemoth (Poland), also has the jam-packed death metal alleg...

Metal Bulletin P.O. Box 571794 Houston, TX 77257-1794 usa Issue 23 (available now): interviews with: Hirax (U.S.) Askans Arvet (Germany...

Ninth Kingdom (Texas): Where No Kings Shall Roam Hard work and a seriousness of objectives is what black metallers Ninth Kingdom’s album exu...

Sanhedrin (U.K.): Demo 2009 The keyboard introduction sets the stage for three songs of obscure-obscurantist-symphonic death-black metal. Th...

Vomiting Skulls(Finland): demo “With a name like Vomiting Skulls, it has to be good.” Vomiting Skulls are a bunch of smarty black metal pan...

(Nightmare Records) Brainy, philosophical and virtuoso prog metal: top notch performances: lots of guitar harmonies, solos and guitar-guitar...

Ixpapalotl (Greece): That of the Swamp “I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I’m all out of bubble gum.” Such is the philo...

Human Carnage (Québec, Can.): Feast of Darkness This four-song e.p. is a compact, action-packed, no-nonsense death metal riffarama-o-fest of...

Urudium (Japan): Moonlit Sorrow Urudium is an interesting proposition. First, the guitar solos, melodies, harmonies sound crystal clear and ...

Diamanthian (U.K): Arcana Doctrina (Ossuary Industries) There is an outlook on metal upon which the work of Diamanthian is constructed, and ...

Cerebrum (Greece): Spectral Extravagance (Lacerated Enemy) Cerebrum’s peppered with rhythm changes, and is prone to technical tangents, guit...

REVIEWS Thor (Canada): Unchained (Vulcan Sky) With song titles like “Ride from Hell,” “Rock the City” and “Lightning Strikes” and other son...

REVIEWS Conqueror (Costa Rica): In the Depth of Darkness The constant-strong use of guitar solos, and the recurring additional rhythm riffs—...

Bestemmia Aeternalis (Texas): Embracing Hell demo Due to the dual vocal approach, black metal shrieking and death metal growling, the group ...

Awicha (Thailand): Awicha Marn 09 demo These two songs go as fast as raw-black-metally possible, in a whirling-hurling tornado of chaos...

Interview: Smargroth (Slovenia) Smargroth (Slovenia) Smargroth is a necrogrim black metal band with some surprisingly memorable songs, and ...

Interview: Xolotl (Utah, U.S.) --- zine contact: Metal Bulletin P.O. Box 571794 Houston TX 77257-1794 usa --- Xolotl (Utah, U.S.) With the...