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Crossnail is the band formerly known as Teodor Tuff (The band subsequently did support shows for both Whitesnake and Deep Purple.)

Once again Transcending Obscurity will introduce an Indian Extreme Metal band to the worldwide scene, after, for example, Toxoid, Chaos, Gypsy, Orion or Halahkuh (distributed via Transcending Obscurity or released via Transcending Obscurity India). Also neighbor countries such as Bangladesh (Morbidity) and Nepal (Dying Out Flame) have been promoted in mean time.

Vomit Bucket Productions are an underground DIY-label from Germany, started by a guy who calls himself Gag (named after the movie?). Actually it was founded in 2007 in order to release the Vomitous Discharge-recording Festering Carcass Covered With Rot (pro-CD-r) (though, there was some material before as well), and since Vomitous Discharge are an outfit by Gag… Got the picture?

It took quite a while, for The Lurking Corpses’ last album was released in 2008 (Smells Like The Dead). Okay, there was the re-issue of their 2003-debut 23 Tales Of Terror in September 2013 (update of the review undersigned did: see October 19^th 2013), which was re-released to celebrate this band’s tenth anniversary, but new stuff, no, that has been too long, way too long. Until now… This band from Indiana, U SS A, have always amused me with their Horror Metal, though not one effort I know from them was really mind-blowing, I think.

Thanatos from Holland can be considered as one of the first wave of European Thrash bands as their history goes back as far as the mid eighties... GLOBAL  PURIFICATION  is the 6 th full length release since.

Before I joined Concreteweb’s crew, I wrote reviews for my own sake. I made one for each single recording I bought (tapes, vinyl, and as from the Nineties also CD’s) for my own pleasure. Then, almost fifteen years ago, I joined Concreteweb (it’s a dirty job but someone has to do it; and how else would this label gain such a superior status if I wasn’t involved? …indeed, I thought so…).

Remete is a new project by Hungarian artist János Madura, currently active in Slumbersun and formerly known from Zebaoth or Our God Weeps as well. And if I am not mistaken, it’s the same guy involved with e.g. Kriegsfall-U and Mortem too.

Well, when talking about ‘sonic confusion’ (isn’t that a subject we’re dealing with every single day? no?), please enter Necrosadik. Nowadays this Mexican one-man outfit, formed in 2008, implements some metalized elements, but that wasn’t the case in the past. Katharsis is a perfect example of this schizoid outfit. I firstly ‘met’ them thanks, once again, to Satanath’s master brain ;-) Aleksey, by the way…

The 4^th full length from these Swiss prog/power , for a band that’s been around  for 15 years that’s not  a lot and for me it’s the first  introduction to the band.  There was a time in the mid eighties and early nineties that this sort  melodic  prog/power metal was  the playground of  a limited number of bands from the USA .  Indeed  like FATES WARNING, LETHAL ,CRIMSON GLORY  early DREAM THEATER have set a standard back then which in my opinion is still not matched by  any of  prog power  metal albums released the last 10  years or so….

Weltfeind is a new label (actually it started in 2013), with three releases until now. It was founded by D., the guy who runs the superb Martial Industrial-label Castellum Stoufenburc as well.