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Antestor The return of the Black death Cacophonous 1998 
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| Ok. I'm sold. This is with no doubt one of the very best albums out there. The Norwegian band Antestor play a medivial Black-Metal that other band in this genre are having a hard time to match. Lyrics are in both english and norwegian and that really brings the right feeling to the vocals. There really isn't anything to complain about except for the psycopatic corpsepaint. This wasn't the bands own idea though so they're forgiven. You just NEED this album. Get it in your local metalstore, NOW! |
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Believer Dimensions REX/Roadrunner - 1993
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| This album is a really strange
release. The first half of the album consists of normal Power/Trash
Metal with some speed influences. But the disharmonics that are mixed
into it are awesome. The lead singerKurt Bachman has a really strange
voice and he gives Believer a special "sound". I'ts when you get to the second half of the CD, the 20 minute song "Triology of Knowledge", your eyes and ears open up. Strings, soprano, cello and lots of other classic music mixed with the heaviness of Trash. And it sounds GREAT. Very impressing indeed. Believer has created a style of their own and they are using this new style in an excellent way. Believe me, this is really something worth purchasing. Part one is just standard noise but "Triology of knowledge" is surely worth your bucks. Line-up: Kurt Bachman - Vocals, guitar Joey Daub - Drums Jim Winters - Bass, Guitar |
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Extol Burial Endtime Productions 1998
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Norwegian death-metal at its best! Extol has released their long-awaited
CD and it is about as good as we all could dream of. |
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GROMS Ascension Arctic Serenades 1996
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| This release from the Norwegian deathmetal supremes GROMS is something that will cause severe hearing injuries, since it's impossible not to play LOUD. An excellent mix of Trash- and Death metal makes this album a hit. | |
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Horde Hellig Usvart Nuclear Blast 1994
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| Interesting. Most interesting. A guy called "Anonymous" (his real name is a secret) has recorded an album, all by himself. From a musical point of view it stinks. Bad recording, bad sound and bad melodies. But it's cool. Really cool. "Hellig Usvart" is norwegian for "Holy unblack" and this was the first Christian Blackmetal album released, and that's on Nuclear Blast. Like I was saying, it's cool. |
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Metanoia In darkness or in light ROWE productions 1995
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| After having heard Metanoia on several metal compilations I must admit that I was a bit sceptical about them, but their album was a happy surprise. The lead "singer" has a very special voice that a friend of mine commented with "It sounds as if he's standing in a very small wardrobe". The music is best described as "glamorous deathmetal" since they've managed to mix the speed of the 80:s with the heaviness of Deathmetal grind. | |
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Mortification Scrolls of the Megilloth Intense Records 1991
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| Mortifications second real
album is the heaviest and in my opinion one of the very best Christian
Metal albums ever made. It's fast, heavy and messy. Steve Rowe's grinding
vocals are on this album really heavy and low pitched. A great album
with a heaviness that we rarely see on christian albums. Great! Line-up: Steve Rowe - Bass and Vocals Michael Carlisle - Guitar Jason Sherlocke - Drums |
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Mortification Post Momentary Affliction Intense Records 1992
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This Mortification album is a bit experimental. Heavy Death/Grind
tracks are mixed with synthetic intros and weird sounds that get
rather disturbing in the long run. The "normal" tracks
however are very good and makes the album really worth bying. |
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| Northern Lights Norwegian Metal Compilation Rowe productions 1996
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This compilation has become a bit old now but it's really worth hearing, especially if you want some old material from your favourites. There are 4 Norwegian groups on this CD: Schaliach: A talented group consisting of two guys, one that plays all the music and one that performs the vocals. The three songs are from their CD "Sonrise". GROMS: A group that I had the opportunity to listen to at a concert a while ago. Their three songs are from the album " Ascension". Extol: Great band, great songs. I fyou haven't bought their full-length release "burial" yet, do so. Antestor: This material is old, but not too bad. On their album "the return of the black death" they have evolved a lot but the three songs on this compilation are not bad at all. |
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Paramaecium Within the Ancient Forest Paramaecium - 1996
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| An outstanding performance
by Australia's premier Doom/Death band. This album contains everything
from the most extreme death-metal to a cembalo from the baroque age.
As most Doom-metal albums, the average track length is well over 7
minutes. The lyrics consists of a short summary of a novel that lead
singer Andrew Tompkins has written. He recommends the buyer to purchase
the novel in order to fully understand the lyrics. Cheap trick...
:) It's heavy, it's soft, it's extreme, it's opera, it's death, it's a piano, it's Paramaecium at their best. Lineup: Andrew Tompkins - Vocals and Bass Jason De Ron - Guitar Chris Burton - Guitar Jayson Sherlock - Drums |
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Raise the Dead Australian Metal Compilation II Rowe Productions 1994
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| A nice compilation with some Australian
groups. Ethereal Scourge, Embodiment and Metanoia now have their own albums out there. Vomoth is some kind of Black Metal, not good but a bit interesting. Screams of Chaos is some industrial, metal band that would have been best left out. Nice record though, worth your money. |
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Vengeance Rising Anthology Intense Records 1991
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| This is a "best of" album with trash/speed metal giants Vengeance Rising. The band released four albums and this collection contains the best from them all. Classics like "Human Sacrifice" and "White Throne" are mixed with newer material like "You will be hated" and "Bishop of souls". It's an album full of Christian metal classics that you cannot afford to miss. | |
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Veni Domine Material Sanctuary Thunderload - 1993
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I've never heard anything like this before in my life (except for
their last album "Fall Babylon Fall"). The Swedish band
Veni Domine has made a great success all over the world with their
slow, heavy and melodic Doom Metal. Lead singer Fredrik Olsson has
a rarely high pitched sound that reminds me of Michael Sweet from
Stryper. But there are no glamorous metal behind him. It's slow,
extremely heavy and well played Doom Metal that I think almost anyone
would like. |
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