GHOST BAD OBSESSION
‘If you are possessed by death and can handle a speed/thrash band at 10000 kilometers an hour, Ghost is for you!’ – wrote Adam Szulc from Butcher’ zine many years ago. Let’s move back to the roots of Ghost. The band was formed around October-November 1998, yet Roman Pegza, Ghost’s guitarist told Thrash’em All (issue […]
POSSESSED – Seven Churches LP Combat Rec 1985
So this year we are celebrating another great album`s 30th anniversary. This monumental piece of art, POSSESSED`s “Seven Churches” has been named the first death metal album ever. Well, yeah, right, POSSESSED is considered to be the originators of this genre. Their demo 1984 called “Death Metal” is a proof for that, and despite […]
ONSLAUGHT –Power from Hell LP Children of the Revolution 1985
“Power From Hell” is one of these ONSLAUGHT`s albums that I am still sentimental about; and despite the fact that “The Force” is, in my view, a more mature stuff, yet “Power From Hell” impresses with its debut`s rawness. There is no skills show or virtuosity, here on this album. The music, plain and simple […]
VADER – Necrolust 1989 LP Witching Hour Prod 2015
I will never forget how excited I was when I first listened to the tape version ofthis stuff. It was, doubtlessly, one of the most interesting demos at the time. Additionally, “Necrolust” came from a Polish band, and it was, undoubtedly, something to be proud of. VADER turned out to be one of our […]
BRUTAL ASSAULT FEST XIX
– JOURNEY – On Wednesday, the day my trip began, I was subjected to a series of unfortunate events. Firstly, I missed the last night tram; then, none of the local taxi companies was willing to send their driver all the way to Nowa Huta in order to pick me up. I had to hoof […]
TRIPTYKON LIVE IN POLAND
I was very excited to see Triptykon. Well, I’ve seen them twice before, but this time they were the headliners, so I was expecting a much more interesting setlist. A lot of people from the whole country came to that gig, which was also a great occasion to talk with a friend that I haven’t […]
POSSESSED LIVE IN POLAND
Poland had been waiting for this event for almost 30 years. It was the very day when metal maniacs`dreams were about to come true: at long last, legendary POSESSED did pay a visit to our country. A couple of hours before the gig, we reached theProgresjaClub. The club`snew building was impressive; the upper hall where […]
MYSTIFIER – a 25-year legacy of raw third-world underground blackness
Mystifier, as many of you should know, is one of the most long-lived black metal bands around the world and they have built a die-hard following in the four corners of this planet exactly because of their persistence and coherence during all these years of blasphemy and destruction. After several demos, some acclaimed full-lengths, eps […]
HELLIAS INTERVIEW
If we want to take a look at the metal map of Poland and focus on Malopolska region, we’ll certainly come to a conclusion that HELLIAS is, in terms of brutal music, one of the most important bands in this part of the country. HELLIAS, along with their slightly older brothers, VOODOO, has been thrashing […]
GHOST INTERVIEW Ghost returns… The Lost of Mercy (Act II)
Ghost was founded around October/November 1988. After only two rehearsals, the band recorded a self-titled demo and two weeks later performed to critical acclaim at the Opole Festival contest.After the Leśniczówka contest in Chorzów, Ghost played in front of ten thousand people at the Metal Battle Festival. In 1989 the “Noc Demona” demo was released […]