Burton C. Bell
After an interpersonal meltdown led Fear Factory to fracture in two opposing factions, each carried on in their respective projects. Olde Wolbers, and Herrera regrouped with Bell enrolling Canadian bass guitarist Byron Stroud to continue under the Fear Factory brand name. Dino Cazares meanwhile put together Divine Heresy, a melodic
death metal
“The Apostate”, the second of two albums that Luciferion released in its decade-long existence, finally arrived nearly a decade after its awe-inspiring debut. It is more of a glorified EP than an actual genuine full length release. While most of the new material of this record was written in 1995-96,
Arielle McCuaig
Calgary, Canada fastcore/powerviolence unit Rape Revenge was only around for a brief three years. In the timespan from 2009 to 2012 they released two albums (which accounted for an EP each), of which “Rape Revenge” was the first. Shunned in their own region because of their outspokenness on a
Alexandra Musielewicz
One of the latest underground hopefuls is Recon By Fire, who formed in Warsaw in 2014, and released a two-track digital demo a year later. Recon by fire, sometimes referred to as speculative fire, is a warfare tactic in which military forces fire on possible enemy positions to prompt a
Aurora Borealis
“Worldshapers”, the seventh Aurora Borealis album, is a culmination of the more death metal oriented approach they have been hinting at since “Relinquish”. Stylistically it is similar to its predecessor “Timeline”, both in concept and in design. Being more of a side-story than a direct continuation of the “Timeline” narrative,
Centurian
By 1997 lead guitarist Rob Oorthuis had joined Inquisitor, and his unique riffing style called for a vessel all its own. Retaining its anti-Christian sentiment the newly formed Centurian adopted the Chaos theme. Forgoing its thrash metal influences Centurian aimed for a denser and more technical death metal sound. “Of
Armin Heydari
One of the more visible outfits swiftly ascending the international underground is Austrian death metal band Halo Creation. The quartet was formed in Vienna, Austria in 2013 uniting members of several low-key projects into one better formulated entity. “Demo 2014” is the first of its output, and while victim of
Chuck Schuldiner
The latest in a line of bands imitating the sound of yore, Gruesome is a California and Florida-based worship act to formative death metal outfit Death, and its pre-“Human” era, specifically the duo of “Scream Bloody Gore” and “Leprosy”. Gruesome consists of stalwarts Matt Harvey (Exhumed), Robin Mazen (ex-Demonomacy,
death metal
After the stillbirth that was “Death Cult Armageddon” there was no way to go but up for Norwegian symfo metal outfit Dimmu Borgir. Having “removed” Nick Barker from the line-up sometime prior to the recording the band took to it not enrolling anybody within the foreseeable future. “In Sorte Diaboli”
Brad Palmer
“Inbreeding the Anthropophagi”, the second and last record Deeds Of Flesh released through Spanish label Repulse Records, had the band adopting its known dense, atonal and percussive death metal style – even though they lost co-founder Joey Heaslet prior to the session. It is lyrically more mature than “Trading Pieces” by
Bruno Gruel
Dutch symfo metal band La-Ventura was formed in 2005 in Goes, the Netherlands by singer Carla van Huizen-Douw and former Orphanage drummer Erwin Polderman. The band debuted a mere two years later with “A New Beginning” in 2007, which had a troubled release history. After the usual amount of line-up
Andreas Karayiannis
Sickening Horror was formed in Athens, Greece in 2002 by guitarist George Antipatis, Ilias Daras and George Kollias. The band’s history can be traced back to 1999 with an earlier Hellenic formation dubbed Serial Killer. These days Sickening Horror is mostly remembered for introducing a drummer by the name