METALEGION MAGAZINE #6

PUBLISHER: METALEGION
PAGES: 92
FORMAT: MAGAZINE
SIZE: A4 [8.27" x 11.69"]
+ 76 MINUTES SAMPLER CD

Highlights on this issue range from features with some of the top acts of the metal scene, like MIDNIGHT, THANATOS, MY DYING BRIDE, TRAUMA, ANVIL, BLAZE OF PERDITION or the avant-garde amazing act AZURE EMOTE but also covering underground gems like MELEKTAUS, SACRIFIZER, MORTUARY, TERATOMA, WELLSVALLEY or the uprising international super-group BERZERKER LEGION to state just a few. It also features a label report from the well-known Dutch label HAMMERHEART RECORDS, a mixtape done by NECROPHOBIC drummer JOAKIM STERNER, plus all sort of regular sections and a 76 MINUTES SAMPLER CD featuring songs from bands that will satiate your headbanging needs.

Features:

MIDNIGHT
Almost a decade after the old stench of the emblematic debut album “Satanic Royalty”, the one-man black speed metal band, Midnight, embraces a new period which is celebrated in the form of the fourth album “Rebirth by Blasphemy”. Hiding behind the anonymity of a black hood has given multi-instrumentalist Athenar the possibility of sustaining his profane vision… Music is what matters the most!

MY DYING BRIDE
prove that ageing can actually be a good thing with an amazing new album

THANATOS
underline with their seventh album that they stand for quality above quantity

HOLYCIDE
again leading thrash metal towards social awareness

TERATOMA
leaving behind empty tombs with brutal death scars

TRAUMA
prove that Polish death metal has become an institution

BLAZE OF PERDITION
the escalation of their own eclectic black metal vision

WELLS VALLEY
alchemy is still a source of ominous lumbering rhythms

MELEKTAUS
the obscure threatening ways of Chilean death metal

GRIFT
embracing deep emotions as something inescapable

NILE
pharaonic death rites became grandiose again

WELICORUSS
symphonic black metal with coldness at heart

ITNUVETH
a warm Iberian pagan metal perspective of the black arts

BLASPHEMATHORY
bringing back the spiteful spiritual essence in metal

BERZERKER LEGION
hypnotic groovy death journey led by experts

KEVLAR SKIN
brutality mixed with both groove and grinding sci-fi

ANCESTRAL KVLTV
southern European black metal with Scandinavian marks

AZURE EMOTE
expand their own mazy rhythmic wanderings

MORTUARY
recycling death metal for more than 30 years

SACRIFIZER
the growing French answer to grim, raw speed

TORTURER
reviving the period of oppressive force without much hope

ANVIL
in between ganja puffing a new album is born

Sampler CD:

01. THANATOS
THE SILENT WAR
Holland’s exceptional example of how to keep blasting since 1984 with no signs whatsoever of ageing or losing any deathly proficiency!

02. MELEKTAUS
N.O.X. THE NIGHT OF PAN
The Chilean way of enlightenment through the bestial eradication of incorporeal veils that overshadow the self with vile brutality.

03. HOLYCIDE
EMPTY CYBER LIFE
Destroying all mindless crappy traps that prevent humans from taking into account what really matters. A Spanish thrash attack that breaks all American barriers…

04. BERZERKER LEGION
OBLITERATE THE WEAK
A groovy death metal encounter laid upon a well-oiled international machine with the sole aim to create compositions that provide immediate headbanging impetus.

05. ASARHADDON
DIE VERGÄNGNIS ERWACHT
Feel the hate that flows in the veins of this Germanic duo! A proper answer to all those who seek to be plagued by the grim vileness of primal black metal.

06. MORTUARY
DELETE-REPLACE
The crescendo of the French metal scene just underlines why this quintet should be considered one of the best kept secrets in a country that has many other metal virtues.

07. KEVLAR SKIN
SCOURGE OF HATE
A band that took the time to mature and 4 albums later they have turned into one of the fiercest Spanish death metal institutions!

08. WELICORUSS
SIBERIAN HEATHEN HORDE
Freezing times are approaching, it’s a given fact. However, the orchestrations and melodies that the Siberians have crafted on a black metal groundwork can make the difference.

09. BLASPHEMATHORY
OWNERS OF THE DEATH
An impious manifestation of the ways to destroy the bonds that link humans to senseless revelations through vile desecration.

10. UNBOUNDED TERROR
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
The return of one of the cult Spanish death metal acts of the early ‘90s with a second album that combines both enthusiasm and liveliness – a recipe for success!

11. NAWABS OF DESTRUCTION
THE MERCILESS
Bangladesh might not be an ideal place for metal, however the duo shows that exoticism and greatness can coexist anywhere.

12. EMBLOODYMENT
MASTER OF DISASTER
At a time when the world seems to be a big circus, the Spanish quartet violently squash clown heads with a bat and death metal.

13. JUST DARKNESS
BETWEEN BIRTH AND DEATH
Taking off the hoods of the Russian anonymous duo just to catch a glimpse of uncanny blinding blackness with the certainty that dismay will fade away…

14. THE FLESH TRADING COMPANY
BLACK SPELL CONSPIRACY
Don’t be fooled by the way that the German quintet shares the devil’s potion! In the end, your soul will be collected with a grim smile…

15. VxPxOxAxAxWxAxMxC
AGAINST HUMANS, AGAINST ANIMALS, AGAINST EVERYTHING
Vaginal penetration of an amelus with a musty carrot…that sounds wickedly fun! Austrian grinding, plain and simple.

16. DISINFECT
WHITE LIGHTNING
After a decade without releasing anything new, the Germans gain a vehemence for the sort of guttural brutality that hides more than meets the eye on the third album.

17. HANGATYR
BLICK AUS EIS
Coldness creates the sort of numbness that, depending on the environment, might culminate in total bleakness. The German quartet walk the path of severe desolation…

18. HARSH
BIPOLAR CONFRONTATION
Recording in just one take gives the sort of viscerality and liveness that propels the intensity of vicious brutal death metal.

Regulars:

UNDERGROUND BANGERS
prime selections that require immediate attention

INTO THE DEPTHS WITH
reissuing cult memorabilia from Americans ANACRUSIS

CHOICE CUTS
an exquisite audio selection of bands on CD

LABEL REPORT
the rise, fall, and rise again of ‘90s Hammerheart Records

DIARY OF A METALHEAD
ramblings of a mind plagued by the devil’s music

POPCORN NOT ALLOWED
Lovecraftian picks from Cult’s unequivocally jocular psyche

SLICE & DICE
only the strongest will survive our scrutiny

MIXTAPE
Joakim Sterner shares his fundamental selections

POSTERS
GOD DETHRONED / CARACH ANGREN