This strangely named Polish band plays Deathcore. The style which is without any doubts the most popular in the 21st century. Besides this 7-song EP the band has a demo from 2008 on their bill. In their actual 24 minutes set you can dive into all the clichйs of this highly praised genre. There's really nothing remarkable or interesting happening there. Why? First of all, because all those mechanized kind of riff-structures we heard more than two decades ago by FEAR FACTORY. And believe me; they did it way better than these new generation bands are used to lately. Secondly, I am really getting fed up with all those stupid non-sense breakdowns, which are painfully common these days for a huge number of bands. If you prefer bands such as CARNIFEX, HEAVEN SHALL BURN or BENEATH THE MASSACRE then I suppose you can easily try and listen to K.A.S.K.'s music as well. The only thing that reminded me that they are coming from Poland is the similarity in a few vocal parts to BEHEMOTH; mostly it appeared in the use of the doubled and tripled vocals.

German horde from Sachsen-Anhalt was formed in 2007 by two death/black metal maniacs, Haglaz and Nordah (both of them are guitarists and vocalists). A year later Grym (drums) and Urisaz (bass) joined the band. After some rehearsal material the guys recorded their debut material this year. "Infinitas" includes 5 masterpieces of Blackened Death Metal and an acoustic track, "Als Der Regen Fiel". The recording quality is great, powerful riffs mixed up by sorrowful harmonies, hellish vocals, technical drum and bass parts characterize this first studio-material. Every song from the young, talented musicianship sounds extremely varied and leads the listener to an eternal realm of death. My absolute favourite songs are "Destroyed & Reborn" and "Gates of Eternity". For fanatics, who like the heritage of DISSECTION (especially album "The Somberlain") and GATES OF ISHTAR, this stuff is highly recommended! Hail chaos and keep the black flame burning! (Review written by Georgius)

Circa a year ago I wrote in Encomium about the debut EP "Infinitas" of German horde MORGON, who is based in Aschersleben, Saxony-Anhalt. After the EP the guys didn't stop to write new tracks and recorded their new demo "Saint of Death" this year. My great friends sent me their new material with the cover of high quality and a MORGON patch (Special thanks for that!) recently. Well, MORGON's demo starts with a ritualistic intro, "Qayin's Call – The Forbidden Spell" magnificently introduced the song "Saint of Death". The tracks "Saint of Death", "Bloodline of Fire" and "Thorn Crowned King" to my mind are perfectly composed, great mixes of brutality and occult harmonies. Listening to these tunes, they reminded me of cult DISSECTION's two first masterpieces' ("The Somberlain" and "Storm of the Light's Bane") atmosphere. The demo ends with the instrumental guitar parts called "Winds of Gulgata". To sum up, I should say the "Saint of Death" not a simple demo (rather EP) because the sound's quality is great just like the musical ability of Haglaz (guitars/vocals), Nordah (guitars), Urisaz (bass) and Grym (drums). I hope I'll see MORGON live on the stages in the near future and listen to their new stuff soon! DISSECTION fans, don't hesitate, visit the MORGON pages!!! Chao Ab Ordo!!! (Review written by Georgius)

This is the 4th full-length material from Hungarian NADIR. On "Exitus" the Budapest-based quintet achieved a crystal clear yet massive sound production. Throughout their 9 songs repertory (33 minutes) we can listen to a quality mixture of death/doom and sludge core. Mostly it can be described as a crossover between BOLT THROWER and CROWBAR. Both bands did a big impact on NADIR's music that's for sure. Nevertheless, NADIR tries to add more modernism and actual ideas of today's perception. Here and there the band even travels into the spheres of depression and abstract. Their melodies are really catchy and punchy at the same time. I felt places where you can simply dive into the writhe atmosphere. It sonically surrounds you and won't let you out easily (especially I felt it in the song called "The last one in the wild"). The only thing I would change about the whole material goes to the vocalist's manner, which is pretty forced and hoarse in my opinion, thus it mainly comes in an extremely dry way. Preferred tracks: "We're here for a cause", "Altamira" and "Indirect Genocide".

Welcome the debut release by Uzhgorod-based Death/Doom followers – ОБРІЙ. Their line-up features members of DISPLEASE, OMNIVERSE, SKRUTA, SOULREST and THE SYMBIOZ. The 4-track demo starts with a death'n'rollish riff, which turns into a pretty slow marching-like groove pattern. The pace is quite calm in this song, almost meditative. It has been also spiced up with melodies reminiscent of some old SENTENCED and PARADISE LOST cuts. The second track continues the sluggish attack of riffs with a cool refrain of vocals about the fields of Cambodia. At the end of it we even have a chain of heavy metal-like guitar harmonies. Track number three starts with a massive but typical UNLEASHED riff supported by nailing double bass parts. Then from a sudden the whole song gets a galloping manner, which surely changes here and there just to inject a few soloing melodies and to dive into an errant atmosphere. Their fourth and last track continues the galloping, but with another kind of mood, somehow it reminded me KREATOR's "Outcast" era for some moments. This song has interesting riff structures, lots of great solos and twists included, thus became the most versatile in my opinion. The overall sound production is decent as well. You can listen to the entire material at ОБРІЙ's bandcamp profile. The burnt CD-R comes with a nice digipak garnish and can be ordered either from the band or their label.

This is a 2-track appetizer, promo CD, before the release of the new album "Misanthropy", which will out sometime in 2011. I have to say both tracks, namely "Black Forest" and "God Delusion", represent a masterful musical production and a mature band. For all those who aren't familiar with this Polish band, I just mention that they are around us for more than 2 decades. Their kind of Blackened Death Metal or as they call it Satanic Dark Metal is pretty impressive to me. All those obscure & evil riffs they propagate over the 8 minutes & 20 seconds long promo are simply remarkable and devastating. This is a 100% underground product! You won't find there any modern influences or fake experiments! As a bonus the digipack-designed promo CD comes with 9 video tracks, which display the band's fierce yet unholy live performance too! On this record the band is: Paul (guitar & vocals), Mark (guitar), Michael (bass) and Simon (drums). Can't wait to check out the band's full-length album shortly. Hail PANDEMONIUM, hail true underground music!

Lately Ukraine produces more and more worthy Thrash Metal bands. SPIT BILE is another good example for that. Their recent stuff contains 3 own tracks plus a cover on EXODUS' famous "Piranha" song. The band doesn't stress on making complex tunes at all, their songs are rather simple riff- and structure-wise, but the catchiness is there and that's definitely a good fact. Also great to notice that their music isn't filled with all those modern 21st century diarrhoeas, like sweep arpeggios and pro-tools for example. Their music is straight and honest as it was used to be in the 80s and 90s. Lyrically their tunes deal with social themes: anger, corruption, greed, violence, ecology, etc. The pro-done CD-R comes with a great 4-paged colour booklet and 2 stickers. If you consider yourself a die-hard Thrash Metal freak then go and get your copy now before it's too late!