Baxaxaxa - Hellfire

Here you fuckers go, some excellent ooold school German black metal from the depths of the underground...pure dungeon musick.

Bloodslaughter - Cannibalistic Massacre

German perversion of the nastiest persuasion, rude, crude and fucking brutal for 1987.

Cannibalistic Massacre

The Art of the Legendary Tishvaisings - Catharsis

Just what is a Tishvaising?? No idea. But whatever they are they do manage to play some magical and whimsical German thrash that is as much Spazztic Blurr as it is Destruction.

Catharsis

Fulgor

The best part of waking up...

On Repeat

Mille and krew unleashed an absolute stunner from the oft maligned but UNDERrated Endorama.

Helloween - Pink Bubbles Go Ape

Heavy Metal Hamsters Godammit!
 

PBGA!

Secrecy - Raging Romance

Secrecy's sophomore album and every bit as good as Art In Motion...just more of that Romantic Teutonic Technothrash that I can't get enough of lately.

Rager

Depressive Age - First Depression

Amazing...I cannot begin to describe my love for this album...a prog-tech thrash band that actually put as much care into the vocal pitch and placement as they did the guitar lines (Watchtower, Sieges Even I'm looking in your direction). Depressive Age, much like brethren Secrecy, were a desperate yelp of creativity during the death throes of thrash metal during the early 90's. Not only were they extraordinary musicians, but they were extraordinarily gifted songwriters, branching into areas that certainly must've been most uncomfortable for your common breed thrasher.

First Depression

Secrecy - Art In Motion

Technical German thrash that at it's best recalls the Baroque chordal sensibility of Blackie era Root (I'm especially reminded of Black Seal for some reason), setting this band apart even further are the Buddy Lackey-esque vocals of Peter Dartin. I love love love the solos on this album!

Art In Motion

My Summertime Jam

Whats Yours?


this guy really likes it, damn.

Winterblut - Der 6. Danach

Ol'LH's first stab at it back in 1999, and this was a wildly different beast, more like an ambient black metal ritual....definitely going for baroque and hitting it out of the park. Symphonix and Teutonix combined with fantastic results!!

Der 6. Danach

Ash Ra Tempel - Seven Up

Soundtrack to an LSD trip, featuring the cruise director himself Dr. Timothy Leary.

Heads UP Seven Up

Corneus - Teufelschmand

Dangerous Keyboard-driven blackness that employs an angry-ass pit bull for vocals...a must listen!!!

Teufelschmand

Ferocity - Puzzled Into Various Spaces

Ferocious...puzzling...spacey....all worthy adjectives to describe this incredibly obscure '97 German tech death/jazz dream. This is some unsettling shit all built around Cynic/Atheist style guitar acrobatics with an atonal avant-garde edge that places it on the weirder side of Pestilence's oft-maligned (but incredible nonetheless) Spheres. This is somehow even more "out-there" than any of those bands...if you don't believe, make sure to check out the incredibly fucked and un-fuckable with 10 minute closer "Yellow Puzzle"...it is fantastic, and addicting with half-sung vocals incoherently riding over unintelligible death growls, clean guitar passages and jazz bass fucking with your mind...ridiculous abstract/poetic lyrics about nature. I can't say enough good things about this demo....the only thing this band released by the way. Some members would go on to play with Necrophagist right around the release of Onset of Putrefaction...but I prefer Puzzled to anything by them. A technical masterpiece abstracted and reassembled by psychos. I can't recommend this enough!!

Puzzled Into Various Spaces

Godzilla - II

Another Metal Enterprises release...maybe even more insane than Killer Fox, but surprisingly listenable, go figure. Still, it's just not very good except for a laugh...and even then your better off with that Red Foxx album I posted a while back (ol' Red is a "Killer" Foxx after all, hehehe).

Go-zilla

Kalaschnikov - The Torture Never Stops

Another of the infamous Metal Enterprise releases...utterly cheesy and fun as hell!!

The Torture Never Stops

Undor - s/t

Czech out this insane German black "metal". Very much in the vein of the last RALF Projekt (vox-wise at least).

Undo(r)

Ulfsdalir - Christenhass

Ah that guitar tone...just magickal! Bask in some maniacal lawn sprinkler black Transylvanian Hunger worshipping devil metal excellence that is orthodox and true!!

Christenhass

Carpe Noctem - Dark Days Of Winter

Here's a charming little tale

On Feb 20, 2008, Matthias Schoorman (aka Karathron Carpe Noctem's vocalist) strangled a long-time friend to death, chopped her head off with a machete and set her headless body on fire. Apparently while he was in the midst of all this he was documenting it in real time on an internet forum...you can check it out if you want.
Schoormann then crashed his car into oncoming traffic during a chase with authorities (the girl's severed head was later found in a bag in the car).

At any rate, Carpe Noctem's debut is a very enjoyable raw melodic black metal affair with absolutely insane vocals, of course I guess that goes without saying.

Seize The Night

Verdunkeln - Eintritt in Den Qualenfall

Pounding black metal with a unique atmosphere. Has a little of that Symbolist cinematic flavor of Smohalla and Ruins of Beverast paired with the wrist slicing undertones of Bethlehem...play this one to get your Verdunkadunk goin'.

Entry Into Perversion