No Nonsense Metal Reviews

                INTRODUCING: CROCELL    Lets face it, the buzz of discovering a kick-ass new band is something that every Metal-Heads lives for. After all, you discover your favorite bands and your favorite songs by listening to them for a first time. If you happen to be in the mood for discovering some serious spine-shiver inducing Death-Metal, by one of the most brutal bands to ascend upon the European Metal underground in a decade, then let Crocell blow both your mind and your speakers.    Emerging from Denmark and embodying the very foulest aspects of Scandinavian Death-Metal, Crocell play a very unique form of true, honest and entirely brutal music. For proof of this, just check out their new full-length album, Come Forth Plague. Armed to the teeth with pulverizing slabs of heaviness, Come Forth Plague is not an album for the faint hearted. Tracks such as " The Dark I Will Inhale " and " My Path Of Heresy ", strike with a solid Death-Metal point, s

CARCASS  SURGICAL STEEL    When news first broke that the twice sub-genre pioneering Metal titans, Carcass, would be returning with their first brand new album in 17 years, expectation and anticipation was running understandably high. After all, 17 years is a long time to be away from anything. In the case of the music industry, 17 years away could see you landing in an entirely different world from the one you previously experienced. As for actually making music, 17 years is plenty of time to forget how to do the very thing thing that you once knew so well. Its lucky for the Metal community then that Carcass haven't forgotten a thing about how to create life affirming music. If anything, it seems that Carcass have only gotten better with time.     Surgical Steel incorporates far more Metallic styles than any individual previous Carcass album. For example, the appropriately named, " Thrasher's Abattoir ", carries a hammering Grind-entwined sound, laid upon a