RAATE - Halki Kuolleen Maan... CD € 10
About 43 minutes of overwhelming and moody Black Metal. Some Burzum influences are obvious but Raate still have the ability to sound kind of special and independent. All in all just excellent Black Metal from this Finnish Band.
RAPE PILLAGE AND BURN - Songs Of Death... - Songs Of Hell MCD € 6
Featuring TX Kult Death Metal DIVINE EVE member and ex DISMEMBER / GENERAL SURGERY member. Sounds like DISMEMBER + AUTOPSY, the true Death Metal.
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RAPTURE - Infernal Manifest CD € 8
Rapture play an intensely brutal strain of death metal that owes much to the school of Morbid Angel with some Immolation style dissonance thrown in for good measure. Like most Central and South American extreme metal bands, they manage to sound genuinely pissed off in their delivery. There isn’t a tired moment on this album and the band sound like they are playing for their lives.
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THE RAVENOUS - Blood Delirium CD € 8
Do your like your Death Metal served raw and bloody, with a side of filth? Old school veterans The Ravenous hear your plea, and have prepared a rotting musickal feast for ya in the shape of their second album, Blood Delirium. Featuring members of Autopsy, Necrophagia, and Nuclear Assault, The Ravenous just may know a thing or two more than your average "brutal" or "technical" band out there when it comes to evoking the true spirit of death.
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REINO ERMITANO - Brujas Del Mar CD € 8
The music of Reino Ermitano definitely harkens back to an early time period when the doom genre was just starting to take hold. The sound is equal parts Pentagram and Black Sabbath. There is also a distinctive progressive feel in the music that is supplied by the use of non-traditional instruments like mandolin and interesting rhythmical breakdowns within the songs themselves. Its hard to nail the whole thing, but there's everything here from Hellhound-label depression to 90s underground hard rock to pop to prog to straight metal to Renaissance madrigals to folk, with lots of epic moments of drama, all wrapped up and stamped "DOOM." Recommended for lovers of Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Acid King, and all things doomy and groovy.
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RELEASED ANGER - Faces of fate CD € 8
THRASH METAL ROTTEN TO THE CORE!!!
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REPUKED - Pervertopia CD € 9
Imagine if GG Allin’s corpse would daterape the Swedish death metal scene, Repuked would be the abominated result! LP ltd. 300.
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REVELATION OF DOOM - Shemhamforash CD € 6
REVELATION OF DOOM is really how Blackened Death Metal started out in the early days with VENOM, HELLHAMMER, SODOM. Hellish blasphemic brutality Witching Metal! Ugly, chaotic and heavy as fuck - a glorious return to the old school sound, not for those of you who prefer nice music.
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THE RUINS OF BEVERAST - Foulest Semen Of A Sheltered Elite CD € 12
"He has done it again. Alexander Von Meilenwald has put out another brilliant Black metal opus. I am now fully convinced that this man is a musical genius. I know reviewers need to maintain a sense of objectivity, but we also need to recognize brilliant music whenever it slaps us in the face and have the balls to spread the word. And well, this is us fucking wreckingball. The Ruins Of Beverast, the name of Alex' one-man-project, hit the scene already with the critically acclaimed Unlock The Shrine and the lesser (yet still impressive) Rain Upon The Impure. It has been three years since Rain..., but the new album Foulest Semen Of A Sheltered Eliteimmediately shows it has been worth the wait. Opener "I Raised This Stone As A Ghastly Memorial" is a ten-minute monster of a song with everything that Ruins is known for, and more. The song contains Alex' ever-interesting, heroic yet droning, circulating riffs and epic solos, carefully crafted ambient additions, ritualistic chants, Von Meilenwald's impressive shrieks, a ghastly atmosphere and... a ton of Doom. Doom? Yes. Foulest Semen Of A Sheltered Elite contains a ton of doomier and slower riffs that give the album a mesmerizing and haunting vibe." - Metalstorm.ee
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