This Peruvian Black Metal horde wants to complete the legacy of their ancestors as they emphasize it in their letter. The four pagan warriors are Sajgra (vocals), Ochoja (guitar), Chopjas Atipac (bass) and Tapraja (Drums). The plan is the following: they try to capture all the splendor of their ancestral culture and combine it with the raw atmosphere of Black Metal. I should say they do it pretty sure even if there's a lot of technical mistakes along their repertory. But there's a big plus against those mistakes, which I see in the total dedication of AYAHUAIRA's members towards the music they admire and they play. Because they do it with a deep feeling and with a big respect to middle 80s and early 90s Black Metal bands' heritage! In short, their evident influences are come from the early materials of BATHORY (especially it reminded me when those gloomy acoustic parts appear throughout their songs), but BURZUM had also a big influence when we are talking about the slow depressive parts, while the fast ones are reminiscent more of the MARDUK-type of blasting tempos. My copy also includes the band's debut 8-song material called "El Poder de la Divinidad" (2000) too. It's more simple, slower and sound-wise very poor, thus it is very hard to enjoy it, but even through this bad sound I can easily identify AYAHUAIRA's special song-structures. Fans of pagan Black Metal should contact the band for these 2 demos. They last together about 67 minutes! Both demos have pro-printed b/w covers! The band already has 5 new tracks written for their third production and they're looking for some producer or label that could produce it!

This 2-song EP is like an appetizer before the release of the band's full-length album. The musicianship is simply remarkable and combines from the following geniuses: Kuba Gawronski (vocals), Hubert Wiecek (guitar), Michal Wyrwa (guitar), Tomasz Trzpis (bass) and Michal Such (drums). As you guessed already the quintet is from Poland and as usual Polish bands produce superb sound production by default. Moreover, if I list here the names of such bands as CYNIC, ATHEIST, NOCTURNUS or DEATH as influences I guess you know what to expect, right? Well, BANISHER plays a sort of killer ultra technical Death Metal with maximum level of brutality and expressivity! Believe me, these guys have really something to show us, be it structure- or complexity-wise. "Massacre in the Main Temple" starts the EP with its twisted riffs, roaring bass lines and varied vocal solutions (pig-snorts are also presented here!) which have been aptly spiced up with some sophisticated drum patterns and just mindbreaking soloing work in the middle of the song! The 2nd and unfortunately last song on this EP, the self-titled "Human Sacrifice" displays a classical song-structuring attitude. Nevertheless, it captures a lot of interesting riffs and passages as well. The level of the guys is pretty high, especially Hubert's soloing skills are beyond the imagination! He's like the secret weapon of the band, ha-ha... Can't wait to check out their full-length! Until then simply get acquainted with this awesome EP! Fans of progressive and technical Death Metal will like it for sure!

Proudly focusing on the brilliant "Slaughter of the Soul" album of AT THE GATES this Hungarian 5-piece managed to come up with their best sounding material to date. "The Non-Existent" promo already features the new bassist, namely Gábor Õri, with whom the band's core - i.e. István Cseh (vocals), Péter Musitz (guitar), Balázs Tóth (lead guitar) and Attila Cseh (drums) - became even stronger. The 3 new tracks display us the band-members' eminent proficiency and technical knowledge towards the aggressive and ultra melodic kind of Death Metal. "Non-Existent" opens their repertory, which is their fastest song ever having a bunch of ripping guitar riffs, blasting drumming and merciless vocalizing. It follows a more melodic, mid-paced tune called "The Day - When Silence Died". A cool track so to speak with incredibly well constructed chains of rhythm variations and with an extremely distorted bass standout somewhere at the very end of it. And finally we have "7th Scar" that completes the roughly 12 minutes long material. Undoubtedly this song captures the most original ideas and I hope they will continue to write songs in this way further on. I would also like to mention the great over-polished soloing work that appears in every song and leads their music to a very masterful level. In a word get this non-stop, non-existent, non-divine Death Metal stuff for only $4 (incl. postage)!

I always wanted to hear DATURA's music with a professional sound production! It finally happened in 2004! Unfortunately, this promo contains only 3 songs. Nevertheless, I can easily create a comprehensive opinion even from one of their songs, because brutal Death Metal is the style, which makes very easy to estimate the band's level. Well, DATURA plays US Brutal Death Metal, but more precisely they are totally into the DEEDS OF FLESH interpretation of brutality! That means they change rhythms every 4-5 seconds, thus the songs combine from 30-40 riffs. Sure it's technical and complex plus the drum-work is simply insane and yet very dynamic (even if the drums on the promo are programmed ones). Nevermind it anyway, 'cause they do not sound so synthetic as most of the drum-machine based bands used to be. I like and respect DEEDS OF FLESH very much as the guys of DATURA do for sure! But in my opinion, would be better to concentrate more on some own ideas and song-structures instead of just cloning the aforementioned DEEDS OF FLESH materials. Believe me, this is non-sense, even if the songs they managed to demonstrate on this promo are totally professional. But where is the originality? Please do a favor guys and evolve your music into an own style as soon as possible, because now it seems you're just the Ukrainian DEEDS OF FLESH and not the Ukrainian Brutal Death Metal band called DATURA! Anyway, it's a great progression compared to their old materials, just lack of originality. My advice will be very limited: fans that can't wait for the new DEEDS OF FLESH material should get this stuff immediately! The line-up on this record was the following: Dimas (ultra guttural vocals & bass on 2nd song), Antosick (guitars & bass on songs 1,3), Bob (guitars) and Alex (drums), while the featured songs were: "Bent Within", "Operation Saturn" and "Supertzar" with a total time over 8 minutes!

There will be always bands that never change music-wise and DATURA is definitely from that sort of bands. If I mention they started back in 1999, but their song-structures just slightly modified during the past years, you will know what to expect from them, right? From release to release even their sound production not improved too much. But maybe it's all for the best, 'cause fans of DATURA will always get what they expect from. So musically we have the usual DEEDS OF FLESH formula diluted a little bit with elements taken from the second MORBID ANGEL release. The promo features 3 new songs with over 9 minutes of playing time. The sound is pretty boring; especially it goes to the plastic drum sound. I would advise to change that annoying kick sound immediately. After the replacement of their old drummer, in 2007 DATURA looks as follows: Dimas (bass/vocals), Bob (guitar), Antos (guitar/vocals) and Edic (drums). Only die-hard maniacs of DATURA & DEEDS OF FLESH allowed tasting the following product!

"Faithless" is a 2008 album of DEMENTOR, a well-known Slovakian Death Metal band. The band has already released a number of albums and with each succeeding one the level of hatred and blasphemy has been rising.

This time DEMENTOR's contempt for Christianity has reached its peak. "Faithless" consists of 9 extremely blasphemous tracks, the lyrical theme of which is focused on a total abhorrence towards religion. But this unity displayed by the lyrics won't balance out the value of the album. Personally I have no doubt as for the skill of members of DEMENTOR. Here they proved their masterly ability to destroy everything as well as to deliver their particular message to the listener. I have no remarks on the quality of music, the vocals and the lyrics. But the only thing I dislike about "Faithless" is the lack of melody in it. Nevertheless, one can definitely find here fantastic tracks such as "Seven Demons", "Religion in Blood", "Creature in the Darkness" and others.

Get any of the CANNIBAL CORPSE's albums, take away the solos and you'll get "Faithless" by DEMENTOR. (Review written by Outsider)

I've never thought that Hungary's got any underground movement as well as great bands worth being listened to, but for several exceptions, of course. This time a 1 year old Black metal band from Debrecen made me open my eyes.

And now I'd like to introduce a 5-piece DOMHRING to you. It's famous for their vocalist who has been formerly engaged in a legendary Ukrainian Death Metal band CASTRUM. Fervens (drums), Abaoth (guitar), Messor (guitar), Shandorh (bass) and Georgius (vocals) are beyond any doubt very good musicians, but they wouldn't have coped without some extra help in producing their material. And props to Cornelius (CASTRUM) for helping out his ex-band mate.

DOMHRING's first demo "The Vicar of Satan" was recorded in June 2008, however the band has previously released another demo titled "Hellgoat" before they had changed their name. Being composed of 6 tracks, "The Vicar of Satan" is a story of Listius László, a 17th century count, whose horrible accomplishments can be compared to the deeds of Elizabeth Bathory. The structure of the demo is more than simply great and along with its lyrical theme it evolves into a finished piece of art.

Beginning with "Credo In Unum Satanem..." a dark instrumental track which serves a preface to the entire demo and introducing the Vicar to the listener, the album gradually develops into a highly dynamic, violent and melodic "Decease of a Dominican Exorcist". Another instrumental, namely "Oppidum Köpcsény" is responsible for that feeling of apprehension in you. "A Shameful Matrimony" has more of Death features but in this case the lyrics do not fit onto the music. The last instrumental piece is "Listius' Furious Carnal Desire", an unbelievably thrilling one. The story reaches its end with "Rise and Fall of the Satan's Vicar", the conclusion of the demo. It is a fantastic and catchy song, the second half of which is distinguished for some soft riffs and violent fast blasting.

"The Vicar of Satan" is, to my mind, an excellent result of collaboration of two mature musicians and a group of young but talented ones. Here I can point out only one flaw, that is vocals; and of course, the band should pay more attention to the lyrics as it is grammatically incorrect and rather messy. (Review written by Outsider)

This split CD features 2 young punk-influenced bands from Uzhgorod (Ukraine). Both bands present 6 tracks. First on split is the trio called DOPING. They play "melodic punk" as mentioned in the booklet. Their music structured very plain and simple. We have a deal with the usually used 3-4 riffs per song plus some rock-based melodies. Unfortunately the drums have been programmed so the synthetic sound makes the overall stuff a bit fake as for me. The lyrics have been sung in Ukrainian language and talking about social things like fear, insomnia, alcoholic problems, etc. Their part of split lasts about 15 minutes. My advice for DOPING is quite simple. Guys practice as much as possible, because nowadays even punk music should be played professionally. Next on split is the so-called "punk-core" oriented THE SYMBIOZ. The quartet plays more varied and their song-structures are also better as in the case of DOPING. Nevertheless, there are lots of mistakes in almost all of their songs. With a more serious attitude this material would definitely sound better. The drums were recorded live, which adds some pluses to the overall sound quality, but the drummer's inaccurate playing makes very intolerable the material here and there. The guitar sound is OK, though the balance between the aforementioned instrument and the rest isn't very fair at times. I would say the mix not uniformed at all, thus it is chaotic and differs from song to song! As in case of the first band, THE SYMBIOZ uses Ukrainian lyrics too. Again they are about social themes as depression, alcohol, and people in general. The vocal parts are better structured here, though there are lots of false notes in both the main and backing vocalists' parts. The shouting of the lead vocalist is more hardcore than punk it's for sure. Music-wise it is also more harder and have some experimental solutions like the use of accordion in the last 2 songs, for example. The band has a definite potential, but somehow it doesn't work properly with the actual sound. The key to a better result hides in more practice and dedication to what the band advocates. Personally I think both bands have pluses and minuses. So to avoid all those minuses in the future, please pay more attention to accuracy and rehearse your asses off before recording anything. To get this split you should contact one or the other band.

A half-year old Slovak GOD DEFAMER isn't as popular as its predecessor DEMENTOR, but it's definitely going to be another European Death Metal legend. GOD DEFAMER comprises the work of 5 skilled musicians, three of which have previously played in DEMENTOR. And now meet Jaro Kyselica (vocals), Alex Suchacek (guitar), René Blahušiak (guitar), Majo (bass) and Rudy Strhak (drums).

In December of 2008 the band recorded a promo, which I have the honour to introduce to you. This unbelievable blasphemous substance consists of 5 mind-blowing tracks which is beyond comparison with any Death Metal band from Slovakia. The opus starts with "The Holiest One", this track is a fine example of collaboration of these skillful guys. The massacre is continued by the "Revelation of the Almighty". Here and up till the very end of the CD you'll enjoy a masterly drumming by Rudy as well as killer guitars complemented by an incredibly powerful vocals. "Sacred Pervert Low Life" is followed by "Organization of Fear". The track is a perfect characteristics of Christianity. GOD DEFAMER have a lot of things to tell God for sure. The promo ends with "Heavenly Hell", in this case the title speaks for itself.

If you're excited enough, go and get GOD DEFAMER's stuff as soon as possible. This is not the chance to be missed! (Review written by Outsider)