Another of the earlier Austrian death metal acts alongside Pungent Stench , I remember Disastrous Murmur largely for their hilarious, disti...

The first impression upon seeing this album, and perhaps the best case scenario, is that it's going to sound somewhere like a cross betw...

I'm a massive whore for blackened speed and thrash metal, and I make no apologies for that, nor should any be necessary, whether we'...

The simplistic sort of death metal advocated through bands like Austria's Outrage is honestly pretty brave these days, when you consi...

Wolfszorn is not a record reared on subtlety or invention, it's what you'd call a 'textbook' example of the black metal ge...

You won't even need a second glance at the cover of this Austrian band's eponymous debut to know what they're all about. The D...

Once the Spring arrives, and New England receives its inordinate amount of random, record-setting, deep summer temperature days, I find my...

Derivation is an uncomfortable bedfellow, but when it comes to metal music, it is also the cliched sincerest form of flattery. While I thi...

It might be more appropriate to think of Aus Der Transzendenz 's debut Breed of a Dying Sun as an aural archway into the windswept dept...

For their 7th full-length effort, Dornenreich continue to refine and hone in those elements that make them distinct from the vast and growi...

I wasn't impressed by the Artas debut The Healing in 2008, but it was at least a competent exercise of modern death/thrash which proba...

Perhaps it was titled in tribute to the Red Hot Chili Peppers , or perhaps not, but Austria's Belphegor have returned for yet another i...

Austria's not a nation I normally associate with a strong death metal scene, and to my knowledge they've never really developed a st...

One of the elements that has always stood out most about this album is the somewhat striking image of maternal mockery that graces its cover...

Anyone caught dreaming that Abigor were going to suddenly shy away from the post-modern, experimental direction they took with 2007's F...

In Slumber is an Austrian band who morphs black and death metal into a modern style, for better or worse. While the band is perfectly capab...

Do not be fooled by the short play format of Nightshade Forests . It offers 33 minutes of music, across four tracks, three of which were cul...

Heidenreich was a project of Peter K ( Abigor ), which produced two albums in the late 90s and understandably met with little success. The ...

After the excellent Domvs Mvndi and the monumental With Vilest Worms to Dwell , Hollenthon had blown the ailing Therion out of the water a...

Belphegor has become one of those dependable bands to merge their black and death metal influences into a unified, concussive Satanic force...