Metal Bulletin Zine

Book of Sand (Minnesota, U.S.) The album How Beautiful to Walk Free (HBTWF) presents raw, minimalist black metal with its own peculiar vibe ...

Exile (Jordan) With their four-song recording called Dead Thrashers Rising the band Exile are furthering their metal campaign in the Middle ...

R.C.E. [Rotten Cadaveric Execration] (Brazil) What is RCE? Answer: Of the fastest possible human-made drumming, with a drummer that is a tot...

Wan (Sweden) Their album Wolves of the North is black metal allegiance: vocals entrenched in grimness, razor guitar tone and austerity of so...

Setherial (Sweden): Ekpyrosis (Regain Records) Their plan of action is: 1. Maintain the grim black metal vocals necro, raw and painful....

High on Fire (U.S.): Snakes for the Divine (E1 Music) “Snakes for the Divine,” “Holy Flames of the Fire Spitter,” “Frost Hammer,” “Fire, Fl...

Grave (Sweden): Burial Ground (Regain Records) “Liberation” (3:41) with its upfront (but not blasting; Grave is not a blasting band) illust...

Omnihility (Oregon, U.S.): Omnihility Omnihility is all about playing brutal death metal in the physically and mentally strenuous style: as...

Ravenclaw (Slovakia): Welcome to the Ravenland Ravenclaw is a classy, elegant even, heavy/power metal band with lots of neoclassical guitar ...

Rienaus (Finland): Beneath the Black Wings Though Rienaus is now a band, this recording is a one-man cave-recorded super-necro over-raw blac...

Until Extinction (Missouri, U.S.): Lament After a short keyboard/atmosphere/gothic intro, “Putrefaction” rolls into town and in those five m...

Mormânt De Snagov (Finland): Rise from the Void Black metal raw, minimalistic attack, with decent sound quality, actually: they like that ol...

Of Raven and Ruins (Texas, U.S.): Bound to Prophecy Of Raven and Ruins is clear, crisp guitar melodies, often with a neoclassical feel. They...

Jormundgand (Sweden): Satanic Attack The titles of their four-song demo: “Occult Sacrifice,” “Black Winds of Death,” “Satanic Attack,” and “...

Martriden (Montana, U.S.): Encounter the Monolith Forty-five minutes of tripping metal. A big part of the sound is inspired by black metal a...

Venomous Supremacy (Texas, U.S.) In 2010 in Houston, Texas, Venomous Supremacy brings their metal for people to mosh and goat-fight until ev...

War Master (Texas, U.S.) The War Master “Demo 2009” three-song tape is traditional death with a heavy-crunch guitar tone; and deep, guttural...

Züül (Illinois, U.S.): Out of Time (Planet Metal) Züül plays uptempo, rocking, gritty street heavy metal. It appears that this band ...

Ritos (Brazil) Raw black metal is Ritos’ medium to chronicle the “Pagan Tales” of indigenous-themed songs. Relatos Pagãos carries raw black ...

Susan Gerl (Holland) Death metal guitarist Susan Gerl has executed axes for squads God Dethroned, Murder Syndicate, Cliteater, Desensitised ...

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...