Year: 2025Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli It’s been quite a while since we last heard from Spanish Teitanblood. Their previous album was 2019’s The Baneful Choir (reviewed here); since then, it’s been awfully quiet. Luckily, however, it was not the quiet … Continue reading TEITANBLOOD: From The Visceral Abyss
Year: 2025Label: Xtreem Music “So, how long will we have to wait for a new full-length?” we asked in our review of Spanish Avulsed’s previous release, the two-track EP Extraterrestrial Carnage. And now we have the answer: almost two years. … Continue reading AVULSED: Phoenix Cryptobiosis
Release year: 2024Label: Xtreem Music Christ Denied is one of the many projects of Dave Rotten, whose perhaps best known band is Avulsed, whose Extraterrestrial Carnage ep we reviewed recently (click). Rotten also runs Xtreem Music, the label behind this … Continue reading CHRIST DENIED: Christopsy
HIV+ & FRIENDS: Spanish Electronic Body Music Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum Now, here’s a release that truly wears its heart on it’s sleeve. It’s title tells exactly what it’s all about e.g., EBM from Spain. And the artist name – … Continue reading Stay positive with friends
AVULSED: Extraterrestrial Carnage Release year: 2023Label: Xtreem Music It’s been a while since long-running Spanish death metal act Avulsed released anything – six years in fact. As such, this fresh new release will probably not sate the thirst of old … Continue reading Extraterrestrial avulsion
V/A: Chaos In Basque Country, 1. Bolumena Release year: 2021Label: Tough Ain’t Enough Records I’ve already touched upon what an eccentric but delightful oddity it is, that the strongest oi! scene of today is in the Basque Country. This autonomous … Continue reading Oi! in Basque Country
KALEKO URDANGAK: Bizirik Release year: 2021Label: Tough Ain’t Enough Records Of all the unlikely places for one of the most burgeoning, active and just plain old good oi! scenes to pop up, the Basque Country (in Spain) definitely ranks pretty … Continue reading Oi! from the Basque Country
CANKER: Exquisite Tenderness Release year: 1997/2021Label: Visur Productions/Xtreem Music No, not Cancer. Canker. You’re not the first one to get these two mixed up, and I suppose it’s more than understandable. Canker from Spain aren’t, after all, particularly renowned or … Continue reading Cankerous tenderness
PUTREVORE: Miasmal Monstrosity Release year: 2021Label: Xtreem Music If you’re into death metal, more than likely you’ve come across extremely prolific Swedish guitarist Rogga Johansson or one of his bands such as Paganizer or Johansson & Speckmann (where he teams … Continue reading Putrescent Monstrosities
UNDEAD: Existential Horror Release year: 2019/2020Label: Kadabra Music With what appears to be a zombie on the cover of the album, Undead set the tone for the record from the go. The band, whose members reside in Spain and the … Continue reading Curse of the Undead
Only Death Is Real 