Metal Bulletin Zine

Infinitum Obscure (Mexico): Sub Atras Caelis Metal occultism—in the sense of certain guitar/drum patterns (not necessarily referring just to...

Ensemble of Silence (Malaysia ): Dark Moon Rising 1. “A Force to Kill” (5:09): For the most part, on here, it is a thrashy guitar sound with...

Crypt (Bosnia and Herzegovina): Controlling the Madness 1. “Fresh Cadaverous Flesh” (4:23): This demo is low-guttural death: basic and cozy...

Burning Thy Symbols (Germany): Superior E.P. (Mountain King Records) 1. “Superior” (5:57): No introductions, just black metal storms from...

Botritis Cinerea (Germany): The Burning Slave Mark The black metal hunger of Botritis Cinerea is compact and to the point: six songs of trad...

Blaspherian (Texas, U.S.) This year will be a special one for the band and its audience: death metal artisans Blaspherian have something exc...

Mordenom (Slovenia) Mordenom achieves a very professional sound on their debut AGNVS DEI: uptempo/midtempo/blasting death/black with emphasi...

Avenger (Czech Republic) Avenger has done their part of the bargain with a great release, Feast of Anger/Joy of Despair. The problem is get...

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...