Review Seeds Of Torment "Those who feed the maw"

With Seeds Of Torment—a collaboration between two experienced underground musicians from the Ruhr region, specifically Hattingen and Gelsenkirchen—yet another band is set to release its debut album on CD via Black Blood Records for eager listeners these days. To be more precise, the two main members are Daniel from Defected Decay (read an interesting in-depth interview here) and Suffersystem (review of the latest album here), who handles vocals and lyrics here, and Marcel from Symbontic, Hraun, and The Witches' Dream, who composed and recorded the music for this album. 

Review Nordlys "Lichtglanz Finsternis"

So here it is, the long-awaited debut album from Nordlys, more than 30 years after the band was formed. But that doesn't mean anything; the greatest bands, such as Eternal Darkness from Sweden, took a similar amount of time to release their debut album, and Sadistic Intent still haven't managed to release an album to this day...

But I digress. Nordlys from Memmingen in Bavaria (which seems to be a real metal stronghold, especially in relation to the modest size of the city; just think of Nekrovault, Sacroscum, Khaos, and Niht, even though these bands are all based more or less on a core group of musicians), started out under the name Fjell, were called Pest and Die Schwarze Wut in the meantime, and never made it into the spotlight of the black metal underground like Lunar Aurora, Nagelfar, Secrets of the Moon, or Desaster.