01 Maraca Trasandina
02 Elecciones
03 La Caliya
04 Alaridos
05 Chupavieja
06 Mentes Insanas
07 Vamos Pal Norte
08 Ultimas Palabras
09 Vitalicio
10 Antirockstar
11 Vitalicio II
12 Ayayas Pal Bajom
13 Vinacho
14 Bastardos
15 Agua En Tu Cabeza
16 P.M.C
17 La Yutita
18 Malditos Hipocritas
19 Kumey
20 Actitd Bizarra

      At last damnit!!! Pure fucking grind core!!! Anarkitran brings forth onto the Chilean scene a grotesque vomit containing 20 tracks of ambient music hahaha... These guys come to revive a movement that was pretty much stuck in a dead corner after Cranial dissolved. Even though Anarkitran sound quite fresh, there are clear influences of Agathocles hearable there, a bit of the just mentioned Cranial and this band called G.P.T. where all the sarcasm they originated, can been seen in the track "Kumey".
      "Actitud Bizarra" is a well worked through album and hopefully it will give good results and feedback from the fans and the media in future time. These last two years I have not listened to a better grind core material. The distorted bass for instance sounds there really good. Ultra speed and devastating riffs served within these twenty two minutes of hymns of pure peace and harmony hahaha will leave your ears bleeding. Aaa and don't you dare to attend to any show of Anarkitran drunk as you might probably end up thowing up like this guy pictured on the CD cover! [- Blasfemo]
More about the band on www.anarkitran.cjb.com or email

01 w'gab nagi f'tgn
02 Deathcommand
03 Nova Orden (Imperium Sathanas)
04 Altar De Aquer
05 Alcohol
06 En La Cripta

      I wonder, what would Tom G. Warrior say after listening to Aquer (Chile)? Could be that he would wonder, if these were not the songs he didn't get to record or might even think that Aquer could be the one to take over from where Hellhammer left it. With their "Nove Orden" demo, these evil beings lead by the vocalist and guitarist in the person of Emperador Gzo Guru Arcano, released material of the classic sounds. With the feeling of the first steps made by Hell Hammer - Celtic Frost, which evolved later on into what is now the death metal scene. Tracks kept simple and direct, in the face sort of thing, based on occult themes. Aquer on "Nove Orden" invocated sounds, that for most of the metalheads that started digging the scene back in the eighties, mean sort of a freshening kick in the face. It is real good to hear these days a band that can resuscitate that feeling buried years ago. I don't really know another band today that sounds similar, apart from Warhammer maybe, yet Aquer has much more feeling into the songs. If you want to recall the old times, Aquer could be the answer. I think that song like "Deathcommand" and the marvelous "En La Cripta", that's got some riffs in the vein of "Symptom Of The Universe" but a bit faster and well... the entire release makes one think, that there is a future for Aquer out there. Hail Gzo, Carlegion and Demonic Christ. Just for the hellhammercelticfrost maniacs!!! [- Blasfemo]
Read more about the band at http://www.aquer.8m.com or email

      This album came out in 2001 to be one of those great come backs that have been taking place in the death metal scene. Benediction gives us a massive and quite varied CD, that could be easily catalogued as one of their best releases but not beating their magnificient "Transcend The Rubicon".
      The record starts of with a real kick in the ass "Suicide Rebellion" with its riffs tipical to the band but some mosh riffing close to Napalm Death's "Harmony Corruption". The next "Stigmata" shows Benediction executing old school death metal, just as on their first releases, reminding some of the sound of the mighty Celtic Frost. A bit wierd comes "Sufering Feeds Me" a bit into Motorhead, but fortunately in a couple of seconds there comes this macabre dance full of marvellous riffing that leaves one twisted. "Diary Of A Killer" comes to be the lowest point of the record, that hopefuly was a side effect of experimets and it should just stay there with its Korny riffs. After that comes a song, that as all of their latest releases is total hard core in a manner they do it best, the weird thing being its name "Temple Of Set" with dark lyrics and to those who've been a bit into satanism, it's sort of a tribute to the Temple's values. "Nothing On the Inside" takes us back to "The Grotesque" years where the mosh-slam-headbanging never stops... sure to be one of the best tracks on this record. Quite doomy starts of the "Easy Way To Die", being a mid tempo track, just to let the listener relax and prepare for what's to come. The last five tracks are INCREDIBLE and it seems to me that that's the path the band is to follow - death metal kept simple and devastating.Overall, this record can be divided in two parts. The first seven tracks, very varied each from the other but keeping it the Benediction way. The other part with 5 very, very good songs, all of which follow the same path. Definitely good work done there to keep in mind this great band! [- Blasfemo]

      Recently I had the opportunity to listen to Daemonlord's (Basque Country/Spain) "The Sign (Key to The Underworld - Regained) Pt. 1: The Towers Of Griefdoom". The band formed in 2000 released a couple of demos and a Split CD with Nocturn as Demonlord and was to change the name to what it's now because of another band of that same name. "The Sign..." released by a German label Medusa Productions on June 2002, represents a two-men black/death metal performed with a drum machine. The vocals of Sixto are darker and much deeper than the usual black metal singing. Although the sound altogether could have been a bit heavier, it does kick ass pretty hard. Kepa's aggressive riffing is a bit in the mid-nineties black metal school, fast and uncompromising through the entire album. Still, there are quite melodic parts but always keeping it more than anything - black. Nine tracks, an intro and an outro make together a just over half an hour long, mind fucking piece of music. I'd say "The Sign..." is well worth checking out by any black metal maniac and it is certainly a good step taken for Daemonlord on it's path onto the wide world scene. "... I raise my sword, as black as my heart... I behold the horizon, there's blood on my hands, immortal pride..." Good debut! [- Lord Darnok]
More info on the band to be found at: http://www.daemonlord.xrs.net

01 Shadows
02 The Follower
03 Slept Shinning Dew
04 Live Builder
05 Sight 1

      Well, well... what a nice surprise... and thanks to Victor for giving me this material after coming back from Thornafire's shows on Bolivian grounds. Well, here I am presenting you Estertor, born of Bolivian soil, which made the surprise even greater, as of what I knew of the scene there, most of the bands are of the grind and noise breed. Estertor came out to be an excellent band executing death metal in the vein of the elder Dark Tranquility and In Flames releases...
      Very creative compositions, good musicianship there and vocals, that don't get lost within the background. Riffing mostly upon a firm death metal base, on various occasions their music flows nicely into much more doom death sounds, and these would be the parts of Estertor's material that gripped my attention most. In my opinion that would be the direction these guys should follow in the future to go a step further and brake out off those Swedish roots. Anyway, they will know best what path they'll follow as soon as the inspiration comes and makes them start composing new material. This promo material sounds pretty good and it gives the listener just about 30 minutes of death metal, that is not to disappoint you. You know what... just go out and steal some shit out of some church and go get this material, which in my case placed Estertor on my favorite's bands list. Hail Bolivian Death Metal!!! [- Blasfemo]
Homepage: http://www.Estertor.8m.com

01 Where Angels Have Fallen
02 Via Crusis (The Way Of The Cross)
03 A Martyr's Prayer
04 Wither The Hour

      Progressive doom metal they label themselves and so they are. A mixture of doom and heavy I'd say. I could mention bands of the Solitude Aeturnus and The Gathering kind, just to give You some idea of what to expect as we get much more all through this MCD to enjoy. Clear and catchy vocal lines, fantastic melodies, some keyboard work way in the background giving the songs much depth, superb guitar solo work, close to excellent overall production. Even though I am not very much into this kind of music these years I have to admit, I did enjoy listening to this release. Giving this MCD a spin not once nor twice. Spinning it again and again. I could smell much professionalism here and no wonder really, as Forsaken have been around since 1990.
      "Iconoclast", which is just over thirty four minutes long, has that little something to it, that many bands lack these years on the entire metal scene. We get here something that grips the listener. As I said, it gripped my ass and wouldn't let go for hours.
      Forsaken, coming all the way from Malta have not disappointed me with "Iconoclast" and personally I wish there would be more bands like them, that can still bring some new and fresh stuff into the metal scene. This is a release I can surely recommend. [- Lord Darnok]
Email the band at or check out http://http://forsaken_malta.tripod.com

01 The Abyss
02 Iconoclastic
03 Dominion
04 Sacificial Suicide [Deicide cover]
05 Ancient Dreams
06 Godless
07 Belief
08 Delirium Of God

      I heard of this band, that they were an excellent band on stage and things like that and well... it came out to be nothing but the truth. I've had the opportunity to invite these guy to participate in the first show organized by Vanguardia Producciones and they left me totally satisfied with the kind of death metal they offered. This promotional release they've sent me is just about twenty five minutes of live performance, which gives you a pretty good idea of what Godless represents. I could compare them very much to Deicide riffing with an old school sort of touch to it all.
      Anyway, I found this promo to lack a bit of power. It does show the brutality there is to be found on their live performances, yet the sound I itself of this recording does not fully represent what Godless means on stage. I found the songs to be good and with those pace changes and breaks that surely prevent any moshpit from stopping to headbang. "Iconoclastic" and Delirium Of God" are my favorites there.
      I hope these guys record a much professional release soon and you out there - watch out for them - there is potential here. In fact, lots of potential. And let time show... [- Blasfemo]
Visit the band at http://www.vtr.net/~godless or email them

01 Gods Are Aliens
02 War Against Violence
03 Possessed By Greed
04 G7 Ostracism
05 Perpetual Disablement
06 Holy Desecration
07 Massmedia Control
08 Global Terrorization
09 Bloody Killer Trend
10 Dance! Dance!

      Melancholy Pessimism as many of you may know already, comes from the Czech Republic and this could mean only one thing - brutal death/grind material. I don't really know why that is - still, it's an already proofed fact. "Global Terrorization" comes to be the band's fourth album (third for Epidemie Records) and I must say it kicks ass.
      Being one of the eldest bands on the Czech's extreme scene, grinding around since 1992, Melancholy Pessimism came to a point, that... well... they could incorporate trumpets in a couple of their songs and lose not a bit on the overall brutality! We've been also given a sick "jump-around" type of song "Dance! Dance!" ending the record. All this was a huge surprise to myself indeed! Well worked through double vocals - growls and sick as fuck high pitch screams - a duo that has accompanied this kind of music since its very beginnings. Great guitar work, not encapsulating itself within the fastest riffs only but adding many pace changes into most of the songs and a couple of not very common for this kind of music guitar solos. The drumming at first made me think for a moment it had to be a machine... and I was wrong... incredible speed there. Lyrics are all about the hell men do on earth... shit that surrounds us, things we see and hear every day, politics, human greed, street and global terror, mass hypnosis through the media... Very good overall production...
      "Global Terrorization" is a mature album in every aspect. Listening to it, I get the sensation these guys knew exactly what they wanted to achieved and I have no doubt left they've achieved it! A total of ten totally crushing songs that are sure to make you bang your head against the wall and fall to your knees afterwards wondering what the hell happened to your brains... [- Lord Darnok]
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      This EP released in 2001 contains 25 minutes of doom. What Noctus (Chile) present is close to The Gathering when they still realized style that could be named Doom. I say that they go for the side of the Mandyllion. Obviously there sings a woman who does an acceptable work, but who still lacks a bit of overall vocal work into it all but hopefully with time manages to stand out more... that's good work but still lacking something. The vocalist sings in Spanish which is a point in favor of the band.
      To be their first accomplishment it is acceptable enough... remember that there are few bands that demolish the head with their first attempt... it if the first step that costs most to take and they have done it well since it is not easy to manage an independent production. The music is good and has some good strikes there but always keeping it within the style of the Dutch band... to me personally it is the great one... much of The Gathering... but this it is just my opinion... for others there does happen that they might be fascinated with another band that goes for the style of the above mentioned band. I refer, for example, to Cathedral... they are fanatics of Black Sabbath... that is obvious... but if your you listen to a Cathedral's album you know that that is Cathedral and not Black Sabbath.
      This EP includes 5 songs and one performed live as a bonus track and besides a multimedia live presentation. On the video the band demonstrates that they can still give much more within the composition part since they are good musicians. I hope that in their future production demonstrate that they can make something better and much more original in future time. [- Blasfemo ]
Visit the band at http://www.noctus.8m.com or email:

      Here I have the pleasure of giving notice to the newest, sixth yet album of the Swedish Opeth. A year and a half after the excellent "Blackwater Park", the band presents a record being a part of a double release. "Deliverance" is said to be a brutal album, while "Damnation" (announced for March 2025) should be calm and mellow. New album includes six tracks of diverse and characteristic style of Opeth. There are no compositions, that are strictly fast and heavy. With every next release, Mike's growling is lower and more raw, nevertheless there are moments here, where there is no overdrive, just gentle acoustic guitars are accompanying the clean vocal line. Thus it's not a rough material only. Furious at start "Wrath" that's opening the album, contains a guitar solo that is in my opinion a typical for rock …rock, if the rest of the instruments wouldn't sound so. Next title track with a matter of its melody and dynamic (amazing ending) will be surely an excellent killer of public on the live shows. It's over 13 minutes long! Track fourth - pure acoustic one - shows splendidly a composition's artistry of Akerfeldt. The guitar sounds lyrical and very atmospheric. "Master's Apprentices" that's coming next, pulls out a listener from his temporary meditation with its heavy melody and rhythm breaks. And here follows a thing, that is a little bit irritating for me on this release. In the middle of the track we've got a guest appearance (second yet on this album) of Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree, who's also mixed and produced "Deliverance". His part here sounds at one moment too much like his mother band. Someone could say, that it is not any Opeth work here in this fragment at all! After all this band is so unusually characteristic and recognizable. But Mike returns after a while, with vocal so low, that Chris Barnes gets off in my judgement. The six one called "By The Pain I See In Others" is typical Opethous, maybe except a few vocal lines, that are close to black metal and a twisted fragment recalling a feeling of some dark waltz . The whole record is ended weird. A reversed vocal seems to me like some kind of mantra. Maybe its connected with the upcoming second part of the double release. Ending this review, I must say that this work is interesting, diverse and worth of recommendation. And that probably already makes it good...[- Deathox ]

01 Living Estructures
02 Tortured
03 Perpetual
04 Feeling the Fear
05 Entanged in Hate
06 Epilogue

      So we got another, real nice piece of brutal death metal to review on our site, once again coming from Spain. And so we got another nice surprise, giving the impression that there is something important going on within the Spanish death metal underground. Ripping through all shitty bands out there on the metal scene, Scent Of Death like a war machine crushes the listener with a very strong production, good skills showed and well arranged songs, causing ears to bleed badly. A fact that I feel like putting emphasis on, is that one gets to hears each of the instrument involved in this massacre, working its way throughout every track, which is pretty uncommon these days.
      Apart from all the brutality showed through their music, we also get much of technical stuff here compared to Suffocation or Cannibal Corpse to name a couple. Two instrumental songs - "Perpetual" and the closing this avalanche "Epilogue" spit with beauty compared to Broken Hope's instrumental songs. Just about twenty minutes of well arranged music altogether.
      As "Entangled In Hate" coming to be these guys' debut, it only shows that Scent Of Death is a band that one should be aware of, watch out for and await their full length release, which is sure as Hell to splatter blood all over the place. A must have for all the fans of good brutal death metal out there. Get it and pray for mercy![- Lord Darnok]

      As a beast that's come out of the abyss it flogs our neurons - Sheolgeenna (Chile). Almost 40 minutes of fury and destruction. The production is to any luxury with an incredible art that can be marked as a precedent to Latin-American level. The causer of this was the Czech artist Jaromir Bezruc. This work thrown by the new Chilean label Rawforce is without a doubt the best death metal production realized in this country in the 2002. Sheolgeenna, is a band that gave much to speak of themselves since they released a couple of years ago their demo "Emerged From Outside Skies". Now, with this début "The dark Chambers .. ", they do nothing else than confirm what was expected of them for this malignant work. Unusually marvelous in any sense. Warrior and Draconis go through real battles with their razor sharp guitars, and in order that to say of the great wisdom that they have had to include on the drums the master Pablo Clares (Atomic A., Totten Korps, Execrator, Regnant ..) he does a formidable work. Darkon on the vocals has done a tremendous throat work, comparable to the first Sinister vocalist. These 10 anthems malignant and full of occultism leave one without a doubt that Sheolgeenna have achieved to develop a style of their own inside the death metal scene but with retouches of the gods Morbid Angel from the times of the "Domination" and "Covenant". That is - totally awesome!!! Difficult to choose a song that'd become a favorite since they all are excellent. I can add here that the songs "Apocrifos" and "Arlmagika - Shogel" before released on their demo debut "Emerged From Outside Skies" were included on this release and that now just as the entire CD does, they sound devilish. The entire album is kept on a high note that fills you with the desire of listening it once again immediately after it stops running. It is a production that deserves to be listened by the universe of fans of death metal out there and hopefully Rawforce manages the distribution and promotion that the band deserves, yet already there ain't much left to say than to congratulate the band and also to the label for such an excellent production. [- Blasfemo ]
Visit the band at http://www.sheolgeenna.cjb.net or email:

01 Dispirited Chambers
02 Dreamscape Domain
03 Patriots Of Sin
04 Transcendence Duology

      Intense, aggressive yet technical thrash metal falling even onto death metal grounds at times... This swedish band was formed in 2001 as a side project by Henrik Ohlsson handling the drums, bass and guitars and Kjell Andersson on vocals. In 2002 Niklas adds into the line-up, who took over part of the rythm guitars - Henrik doing the rest. For the recording of their debut demo on February 2025 also Per Nilsson was recruited, who put some real cool solos into the songs. Listening to this material I can be sure these guys have been working on their musical skills for a long time, polishing every tiny detail. This demo sounds just as if the songs were taken out of some full length release - which I surely await!
      Brutal as well as more melodic vocals, nicely combined, dealing with the most obscure reality of occultism and individualism, which comes to be a lyrical concept to this demo... Guitar work that leaves no spare space to add anything else there and good technical drumming, both making any head to bang mad. Each of the songs has that little something, which makes it difficult to pick a favorite one out these sixteen minutes served of a thrash metal avalanche.
      Very good material indeed, very powerful and very well produced. It reminds me of the best years of thash metal. And thrash metal it is, just as it should sound these days. A very strong demo in every way and my personal recommendation! [- Lord Darnok]
For more details email Henrik at

01 Torquemada (Server Of God)
02 Ralco
03 Into My Own
04 Synchronizing The Time
05 Mental Storm
06 Prince Of The Darkness
07 The Usher House
08 Xenophobic
09 Torture (Eternal Suffering)

      Torturer is definitely one Chile's most renowned bands. Started as the leaders of the death metal movement back in the years 1990-94 on a South American level. This release they've put out here is made of 9 classics of the band, which nicely reflect the just about fifteen years long way Torturer has gone through, digging this art of death metal. There are not too many of this sort of releases on the South American scene, which makes this live album a much more worthy release, even more having in mind Torturer has to be one the most powerful bands on stage that I've seen.
      The band suffered line-up changes between 1996-98 which made things very difficult, since that year though, they have been working really hard to regain their once lost position. Enough to mention, they've released some of their material on European labels, and now on the Japanese Bloodbath. For those of You who have never had the opportunity to get to know Torturer, well... they have always sounded like Torturer, an authentic sound of their own that has lead them through, right from their beginnings. It's quite difficult to compare them directly to any other band around... but let me think... could be something close to a combination of old Slayer and Sadus more or less.
      The sound of this live material is of a pretty good quality, yet very onest and You can hear clearly it is a true live show indeed and not an artificially studio-prepared "live" release. Congratulations warriors! TORTURE – ETERNAL SUFFERING!!! [- Blasfemo]
Find more about the band at http://www.torturer.cl or email them at

      With the lugubrious - intense - sick death metal begins this, last year's demo of Torfrom's (Chile). With a sound and athmosphere keeps you captive right from the beginning, since there are some touches of the gods Autopsy (RIP). Jorge Arancibia vocals remind very much of the vocalist - leader of that already gone American band. Recorded on 4 channels has a sound adapted to be a demo, but this band has something that I see in the future can manage that to become kind of a cult material. Hopefully they continue with that sound as it was kind of good choice to record with low budget. In total of three satanic anthems sang in Spanish and two in English. I want to clarify that it is not a band for the masses that look for the typical trendy riffs. If you are one of those that expect a band to give you more than just a copy of such and such band... this could be one of those bands You're looking for!!! "Glory Satan" and "Centurion" are really chaotic. In the end - it is a real pearl for the underground deathmetallers!!! [- Blasfemo ]
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01 Still
02 The Unknown
03 Deep Is The Stigma
04 A Walk Through Oceans

      These Englishmen have been working their way trough since 1993 and with their latest MCD, they have added just over thirty minutes of doom metal onto the scene. I could compare what Unsilence presented here a little to Anathema's and the likes' releases years back, years of their greatness... a little of My Dying Bride here and there (the title track most of all). Good melodies, good musicianship. Slow to mid pace songs, adorned with good guitar solos here and there... "A Walk Through Oceans" definitely follows the more epic direction, marked on their previous MCD "Transfiguration".
      Nice sounding, clear vocals, pretty strong material. The one thing that annoyed me here were the vocal lines brought far too much forward in my opinion, which made the songs sound a bit weaker than they actually would. And it is definitely the only weak point on this MCD. Which gives much hope for a future full length release.
      "A Walk Through Oceans", although not a ground breaking release yet still gives pleasure listening to it. It should probably grip the interest of doom/gothic metal fans. [- Lord Darnok]
Email the band at or contact them through http://www.goldenlakesprods.co.uk