Category Archives: Review

FIXIONS – Driver

by Lefteris Kefalas

Though summer is mostly gone, our beloved hot, summer days are and will be present for quite some time, so the conditions could not be more appropriate for this unexpected

release of this electronic substistence from France.cover FIXIONS delivered an all new EP in all secrecy, designed for short, but sweet unplanned trips far away from home.

‘Summer Clouds’ picks us up, just where the wistful and enigmatic ‘Uhler’, from last year’s Euphorion left us. This EP is yet another different approach in FIXIONS’ music, fusing both old and newly adopted elements, albeit somewhat different from  what can be heard … Read more

Abstract Deviation – Layers

by Dæv Tremblay

From Mother Russia, Abstract Deviation are making a lot of noise in the modern progressive a.k.a. djent scene. Mathy polyrhythms, changing time signatures, insane musicianship and female vocals are what distinguishes them when you first listen to them.

If you want some new djent madness without all the mean and harsh vocals that are used in today’s bands, you might want to get into that band. If you’re a fan of said mean and harsh vocals, go and get their instrumental version of the album and make your own growls/screams/farts.

Abstract Deviation is sure to become … Read more

DEATH COURIER – Perimortem

by Lefteris Kefalas

DEATH COURIER is a 3-piece death/thrash band from Patra (Greece), formed in 1987, and one of the first death metal bands to have ever emerged from the country, still following the DIY ethics to this day. What we have here is dmBj2B2the release of the band’s new full-lenght album, twenty years after the release of their debut “Demise” LP, presenting a collection of songs that count something more than fifteen years in the vault awaiting to be unleashed.

DEATH COURIER greet us with a short yet terrifying intro, just before the band kicks in with all the madness and wrath … Read more

DERANGED – Morgue Orgy

by Lefteris Kefalas

Brutal death metal-legends DERANGED, hailing from Malmö, 378528Sweden, are still ripping flesh, breaking bones and eating brains like it’s still the 90’s. With the newly added Anders Johansson on guts, they just released, ‘Morgue Orgy’ EP which saw the band return faster and more brutal than ever. The album arises stormingly, DERANGED needs no introduction or other gimmick after all, it is just straight up, in your face brutal death metal. The powerful and crude riffs, ferocious and vitriolic, induced with natutal and pinch harmonics make this violent whirlpool even more intense, if that’s even possible. Anders Johansson’s deep, guttural … Read more