After months of work, this new version of MetalCurse.com is finally here!
New reviews will be daily, with interviews and other features added as often as possible.
Metal Curse started publication in 1989, obviously as a print zine, since the world wide web hadn’t been invented yet. In addition to a constant stream of new reviews, interviews, and other brain-stimulation, this new website features all of the archived reviews from all 12 of the print issues of Metal Curse, plus a few extra reviews that were cut from the print issues due to space limitations. And of course all the content from the previous versions of MetalCurse.com, all in a fully searchable database.
Or rather, it will.
We’re still working on getting all of the archived material online, since we will add the old stuff as we go, with our full concentration on new content.
So for the time being what you see on the “new” page is going to be a mix of old and new content.
Please keep in mind that most of the archive reviews were written when the material being reviewed was brand-new. In other words, a lot of these reviews are ancient.
By the time we’ve gotten all the archived material online, it’ll probably be time to start all over with another total site redesign!

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“Metal never bends and will never die!”

I don’t see what the big deal is here. Second rate Destroyer 666 and Bestial Warlust. Certainly not bad, but not the masterpiece some mag writers are making it out to be. Nothing I haven’t heard done better in the past.

“Ambassador of Mass” is the first video from Nightfall’s new album, Astron Black and the Thirty Tyrants.

As many of you know, Behemoth’s main man, Nergal has been diagnosed with leukemia, and needs a bone marrow transplant.
According to his official statement on the band’s website, www.behemoth.pl, Nergal is in good spirits and is facing this fight head-on!
Everyone here at MetalCurse.com wishes Nergal all the best and speedy recovery.
Get well soon, brother!

To learn more about how you can register to donate marrow check out: http://www.marrow.org
Fans wanting to help out, register for the marrow program, or have questions on running a marrow drive may contact the organization Music Saves Lives by email at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or visit Music Saves Lives at http://www.musicsaveslives.org

Let’s keep Nergal in our thoughts and check out the uncensored version of Behemoth’s video for “Alas, Lord Is Upon Me” from the band’s latest album, Evangelion:

“Push the Venom” is the first video from Kataklysm’s amazing new album, Heaven’s Venom.

Witchery is back, with none other than Legion (ex-Marduk, Devian) on vocals!
Here’s the first video, for “Conqueror’s Return,” from the band’s new album, Witchkrieg:

Southern Deathcore-turned-Death Metal outfit Through the Eyes of the Dead don’t have much luck with vocalists. Youngster Danny Rodriguez is their third in three albums, and with the overwhelming brutality and heaviness of 2007’s breakthrough Malice due in large part to the demon-possessed bear vocals of ex-frontman Nate Johnson, he has big shoes to fill. Musically the band is as tight as ever. While I had no problem with their original breakdown-fueled Metalcore attack of albums past, I’ll take their full-on Death Metal assault any day. They still incorporate some of their old tricks, and while Skepsis may not be quite the monster Malice was, it still decimates. As far as Rodriguez’s vocals go, he is a formidable replacement to say the least. In fact, I honestly couldn’t tell it was a different guy until I looked. If you’re looking for pure brutality, crank this up and try not to shart yourself.

What more can be said of the remarkable 20-year career of the mighty Immolation? How many bands can lay claim to their ninth full length album having the same jarring ferocity as their first or second? Immolation simply are not interested in fixing what is not broken. Essentially the same formula as any one of their nearly flawless albums, Majesty and Decay sizzles and jabs with the band’s trademark technical proficiency and atonal brutality. Quite possibly the best production the band have ever achieved with the rhythm section and Ross Dolan’s bestial, demonic roar the primary beneficiaries. Bob Vigna is still the jagged riff master, his otherworldly concoctions are in a distant league of their own. Immolation have always succeeded in making their own brand of Death Metal their own way. Boundary pushing brutality and unmatched creativity, yet still memorable and beyond focused. The completely pro-Jesus Christ lyrics on this album did throw me for a loop at first though. Ha! Just kidding. Favorites: “The Purge,” “A Token of Malice,” “The Rapture of Ghosts,” and “The Comfort of Cowards.”

Deathcore is becoming quite the dirty word in the Extreme Music community. Take the UK’s Annotations of an Autopsy, whose debut album Before the Throne of Infection was a solid, brutal chugfest of blasting and breakdowns. It received scathingly poor reviews from nearly everyone (except the massive crowds attending their shows, that’s odd). “We’ve heard it all before” seems to be the battle cry of the critics. It’s much more honorable and novel to heap praise on Neurosis clones I guess. That’s not a trend at all (bandwagon-jumping fucks). So, with 2010’s new offering from the band, minus 3 original members who left the band to play full time in Ingetsed (a great Deathcore troupe in their own right), responds by shedding much of the Core and emphasizing almost exclusively on the Death. You won’t hear any complaints from me, as the young band can apparently tackle any style they desire. Reign of Darkness is the best Death Metal album of the year. Okay, as of press time in early February it’s the only Death Metal album of the year so far, but it’s still a damn good one. And scenesters, don’t be scared, there’s still hints of that slamming groove hidden throughout the core of this Deathly assault.