ARMOURED ANGEL Wings of Death
Here we go with one of the most legendary demos of all time. This is Armoured Angel Wings of Death, the home town hero’s from where I come from in…
SODOM Expurse of Sodomy
I was in two minds about whether to review an EP, but since Sodom Expurse of Sodomy is all unique material only really available on this EP, I was like…
ENTOMBED
Roots: Nihilist, Stockholm & a brewing scene Entombed’s beginnings are tightly linked to the late-1980s Stockholm metal underground. Several core players emerged from the band Nihilist, a group that dissolved…
BEHEMOTH Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)
I was aware of Behemoth from pretty early on but don’t really remember this album coming out. To be honest the cover is very stock standard Black Metal and there’s…
CANNIBAL CORPSE Butchered at Birth
CANNIBAL CORPSE Butchered at Birth is the second record released in 1991, by this now legendary band. I remember seeing the promo ads in magazines for this (But at the…
IRON MAIDEN The Number of the Beast
Here begins the greatest chapter in Heavy Metal history with IRON MAIDEN The Number of the Beast in the early part of 1982. After this, album after album from many…
IMMORTAL
Immortal emerged from Bergen, Norway, in the late 1980s and early 1990s as an unmistakable force in the second wave of black metal. Anchored by the songwriting partnership of Abbath…
BEHERIT Drawing Down the Moon
This is hailed as a classic in Black Metal circles, but I have to say I don’t really get it. BEHERIT Drawing Down the Moon is the first album from…
SARCOFAGO I.N.R.I.
SARCOFAGO I.N.R.I. is this Brazillian bands first record. Sarcofago is fronted by Wagner Lamounier who had a couple of years before left an embryonic version of Sepultura to form his…
CRADLE OF FILTH The Principle of Evil Made Flesh
CRADLE OF FILTH The Principle of Evil Made Flesh is in my opinion a truely ground breaking album. The band took their early death metal / black metal demo sound…