WINTER TORMENT WEBZINE
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Bluthammer--Iron Eagle Division CS {WolfKult Religion} done on 8-27-25
Sunday, August 24, 2025
TombWorm--WormWar III CD{CDN Rec.} done on8-24-25
TombWorm is a trio that comes out of Canada's brutal old school death metal scene.WormWar III is the debut EP.featuring six songs of brutal and raw death metal that is catchy and delievers great sounding death metal.The music presented here on the debut is a mix of heavy,mid paced guitars and drum passages.The guitars and drums to speed to a more fast pace range throughout the songs to give each song a nice balance.The vocals are brutal death metal growls and some deep death growls are also used,If you are a fan of early Cannibal Corpse,Autopsy etc defintly give TombWorm a chance and check them out today. TombWorm https://www.facebook.com/people/TombWorm/61576335715633/ CDN Records https://cdnrecords.com/shop/ https://cdnrecords.bandcamp.com/music https://www.facebook.com/cdnrecords https://www.instagram.com/cdn_records/
Saturday, August 23, 2025
Violator--Unholy Retribution cd{Kill Again Rec.} done on 8-23-25
Brazil's Violator return with a new release of relentless and aggressive thrash metal.Unholy Retribution is the newest full length with eight anthems of violent and intense authentic thrash metal.The guitars are played with skillful writing that is fast and furious guitar passages.The guitarists does perform some well played solo's and memorable guitar patterns.The drums are a mix of heavy mid paced drums and some chaotic fast drum passages.Both styles are done with power and experience.The vocals are raw screams that are powerful in the delievery.Their are also some hollering style vocals used in a few tracks.If you are a fan of well executed and delievered thrash metal do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of Unholy Retribution today. Violator https://violatorthrash.bandcamp.com/music https://www.facebook.com/Violatorthrash https://www.instagram.com/violatorthrash/ Kill Again Rec. https://www.killagainrec.com/ https://www.facebook.com/KillAgainRecords https://www.instagram.com/killagainrec/
Saturday, August 16, 2025
Pestilential Shadows--Wretch cd{Northern Silence} done on 8-16-25
Australia's Black Metal masters Pestilential Shadows return with their latest full length.Wretch contains eight tracks of well played traditonal black metal.The guitars are played with a mix of extreme fast paced guitars that are chaotic at the same time well performed.The guitars do slow to a more controlled mid paced with some memorable passages even adding in a few guitar solo's.The drumming is top notch with some mid paced heavy.pounding drums that are powerful in their delievery.The drummer does speed to a much faster drum style with chaotic,fast drum patterns.The vocals are grim,raw black metal screams and some gruff growls and screams are also used in a few tracks.I have been a fan of this Australian band for many years and this is a great release to add to your collection if you are a fan of this band or just well delievered black metal. Pestilential Shadows https://pestilentialshadows.bandcamp.com/merch https://www.facebook.com/PestilentialShadowsOfficial https://www.instagram.com/pestilentialshadows/ Northern Silence Prod. https://northern-silence.de/en/ https://northernsilenceproductions.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/NorthernSilenceProductions https://www.instagram.com/northernsilenceproductions/
Empalamento-- Album: Ep "Ordem da Estaca" cd{Haloran Records} review done by Cátia Godinho "Caos" done on 8-16-25
In recent years, for the first time, I had the immense satisfaction of knowing a Portuguese band that was recreating the art of a musical cult which existed for a brief period in the 1990s in France, a cult represented by a select few artists, who were called Les Légions Noires.
It could even be said that the band Empalamento is the mirror image of "Vlad Tepes", 90's French musical project, as a Portuguese version, in the best sense of the terem.
The duo "Lord Drahkul" and "NekroTeppes" , completely inspired by the history and legend “Count Vlad Dracul,” a mesmerizing obsession deeply rooted in Eastern European legends.
If that weren’t enough, the album is intensely dark, freezing, a true delight for fans of pure raw black metal.Each track succumbs to a 90s production, without clean sounds, a total atmosphere of sucking blood and petrifying us, allowing us to go back to the golden age of raw black metal, with blast beats from another dimension.
The production is terrifying and full of minimalist old school creation, with a very dark and gloomy atmosphere, creepy vocals, and riffs so rare and old school, guitar solos that we can easily say we are really back to the cult of 30 years ago.
Tracks such as “O Sangue Escorre” and “Ascensão Obscura” will echo and repeat themselves in the minds of fans and followers of the genre.
The debut EP “Ordem da Estaca” brings us a new band with the potential to become eternal with their serious and professional Pure Minimalist Raw Black Metal.
9/10
Cátia Godinho "Caos"
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Cruentation--Damned Fallen Angels cd&LP{IronBonehead Rec.} done on 8-12-25
https://cruentation1.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/people/Cruentation/100083550304988/ https://www.instagram.com/mastersperversity/ Iron Bonehead Prod. https://ironbonehead.de/ https://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/IronBoneheadProductions https://www.instagram.com/ironboneheadproductions/?hl=en
Sunday, August 10, 2025
Deathhammer--Crimson Dawn CD/LP/CS {Hells Headbangers} done on 8-10-25
Deathhammer is a name that should be known to you if you've followed either black metal or thrash at any point in the last 20 years. Their records for Hells Headbangers always strike quick and hard, and this one is no exception, which is a feat for a sixth studio album and a band with a defined sound. See, some of us in the underground (yes, there is still an underground, more of a spirit now than an actual network) like when a band doesn't change drastically. Sure they can throw new sorts of riffs at us, new little tricks, but if the core remains the same we are generally happy with it as long as the quality remains high. Deathhammer is a band like that. They don't change, they don't "progress," they don't do anything other than what they've promised us, and that is deliver fast blackthrash in the best way possible. Echoes of Norwegian black metal's sound can be heard under the corpsepile of Germanic thrash and speed metal, as can some Celtic Frost influence in some certain songs. This is about the old ways of metal, not the trends that exist today. They came to prominence at a point when blackened thrash was on the rise, and now that it's cemented itself as a subgenre, this band has taken a kingly position among the rest. Songwriting is their key to success, as well as an underrated ability to play some truly tricky and skilled stuff that's hiding in all the madness. They do have a sense of melody behind the crashing drums and aggressive riffs. Every song here is memorable in the same way as the records you bought when you first found metal and were blown away by Destruction, Kreator, or Sodom, whether it was in the majestic 1980s or the early 1990s as those bands were stripping the blackness out of their sound for something more polished but still violent. I hesitate to compare them too closely to those progenitors since their sounds have strayed so far from what Deathhammer is doing. This is honest music, not an attempt at nostalgia, and should be regarded as such. Just because they are playing a style made famous in the 1980s does not mean the style lived and died in that decade and didn't attract a new set of followers and purveyors. Go to Hells, get this album when it's out, and be thrashed into pulp. You will not be disappointed. Note: the cover is also awesome, I love when bands use photos of themselves.
Deathhammer
Hells Headbangers
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