Metal Horde Zine - Special Report SWR Barroselas Metalfest XV (2012)

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bolt Thrower - The IV Crusade (1992)

The IVth Crusade is the fourth studio album by the legendary British death metal band Bolt Thrower, released in 1992 via Earache Records.

Key Features

• Sound: On this album, the band significantly slowed down their tempo compared to their previous work, War Master, leaning into a heavier style influenced by Death-Doom and bands like Candlemass and Pentagram.
• Theme and Artwork: The title refers to the Fourth Crusade and the capture of Constantinople. The cover features the 1840 painting by Eugène Delacroix titled "The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople".
• Legacy: It is considered one of the band’s most powerful and consistent works. In 2025, Loudwire named it the best death metal album of 1992.

 

 

 

 

 Tracklist:

1.     The IVth Crusade     04:59
2.     Icon     04:10
3.     Embers     05:18
4.     Where Next to Conquer     03:50
5.     As the World Burns     05:25
6.     This Time It's War     05:50
7.     Ritual     04:30
8.     Spearhead     06:47
9.     Celestial Sanctuary     04:37
10.     Dying Creed     04:17
11.     Through the Ages (Outro)     03:45
 
53:28 

 

Line up: 

• Gavin Ward : Guitars
• Karl Willetts : Vocals
• Barry Thomson : Guitars
• Jo Bench : Bass
• Andy Whale : Drums.

 

 

 

 Label: Earache Records. MOSH 70CD

 All tracks recorded and produced at Sawmills Studio, August 1992 by Colin Richardson and Bolt Thrower.
Mixed at: Fon Studios, Sheffield-September 1992.

Front Cover "Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople"Painted By Delacroix In1840.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Absence - Riders Of The Plague (2007)

 

 The Absence is an American metal band from Tampa, Florida. Their style has been described as aggressive thrash metal fused with melodic death metal in the manner of the Gothenburg sound of Scandinavian metal. They were previously signed to Metal Blade Records and are now signed to M-Theory Audio.

The band released a self-titled EP in 2004 and followed up with their debut album, From Your Grave, in 2005. The band's second album, Riders of the Plague, was released in 2007. The album was praised in a review for finding an "interesting balance" between the genres death metal and thrash metal. In 2007, bassist Michael Leon joined the band. Drummer Jeramie Kling left the band that same year and was temporarily replaced by Chris Pistillo from the Tampa death metal scene. The band recruited Justin Reynolds as their new drummer in early 2008.

The Absence stated in late 2008 that they would be entering the studio to record a new album in March 2009. Due to time constraints and touring duties, the band said they would enter the studio on September 10 since the original date "wasn't the right time." The band delayed the recording of the album again and later entered Mana Recording Studios on November 2, 2009, to record Enemy Unbound. Their third studio album, Enemy Unbound was released on September 14, 2010, and reached No. 55 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. Jeramie Kling rejoined the band during summer 2010. On September 27, 2010, The Absence released their music video of "Enemy Unbound" from their eponymous album Enemy Unbound. As of January 1, 2013, guitarist Peter Joseph parted ways with The Absence. On January 22, 2013, it was announced that Per Nilsson of Scar Symmetry had joined the band.

 

 

 

 

 

 Tracklist:

1.     Riders of the Plague     04:01 
2.     Dead and Gone     05:04 
3.     The Murder     05:22 
4.     Echos     05:05 
5.     World Divides     05:35 
6.     Prosperity     04:08       instrumental
7.     Untitled     00:04       instrumental
8.     Awakening     05:13 
9.     Merciless     06:44 
10.     Into the Pit (Testament cover)     02:48 
11.     The Victorious Dead     04:16
12.     Outro     07:03       instrumental
 
55:23

 

Line up: 

 • Jamie Stewart : Vocals, Lyrics
• Patrick Pintavalle : Bass (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12), Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 1, 3-8, 11)
• Peter Joseph : Bass (tracks 2, 4, 10, 11), Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 2, 4, 5, 9)
• Jeramie Kling : Drums, Vocals (backing) (track 10).

 

 

 

Label: Metal Blade Records – 3984-14623-2P

 Recorded at Mana Studios, Florida, February-March 2007.
Mixed and mastered at Black Lounge Studios, Grangärde, Sweden, March 2007.
Additional editing at Tropicsounds Studios, Florida.
Jonas Granvik's backing vocals recorded by Simon Johansson at Solna Sound Recording, Sweden.

 

 

 

 

 

Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral (2014) [Promo]

 

 Took their name from a Cancer song. The band's logo is a tribute to Gorement's.

Bloodbath formed in 1998 during one evening when friends Mikael Åkerfeldt, Anders Nyström, Jonas Renkse, and Dan Swanö had the idea to play death metal in the realm of Entombed mixed with some of the US Florida death metal scene bands. Quite simply, Bloodbath was born out of this shared admiration for quality death metal in its old fashion combined with a new sound.

Mikael Åkerfeldt left Bloodbath about a year after the release of Resurrection Through Carnage because he wanted to focus on his more serious group, Opeth, but he still performed with the band for their Wacken 2005 set. He then returned to the band in 2008 and left again in 2012.

 

 

 

 

 

 Tracklist:

 1.     Let the Stillborn Come to Me     04:37
2.     Total Death Exhumed     03:51
3.     Anne     03:59
4.     Church of Vastitas     03:37
5.     Famine of God's Word     04:56
6.     Mental Abortion     03:47
7.     Beyond Cremation     04:41
8.     His Infernal Necropsy     03:35
9.     Unite in Pain     03:52
10.     My Torturer     04:17
11.     Grand Morbid Funeral     05:35

 46:47

 

Line up: 

 • Lord Seth : Bass, Songwriting (tracks 1, 4, 6, 8), Lyrics (tracks 1, 4, 6, 8)
 • Blakkheim : Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 2, 7, 9, 11), Lyrics (tracks 2, 11)
• Axe : Drums
 • Sodomizer : Guitars, Songwriting (tracks 3, 5, 10), Lyrics (tracks 3, 5, 10)
 • Old Nick : Vocals, Lyrics (tracks 7, 9).

 

 

Label: Peaceville – CDVILEF546WM

Recorded Ghost Ward & City of Glass, March - September 2014.
Mixed at Ghost Ward, Stockholm, September, 2014.
Mastered at Stockholm Mastering, Stockholm, September 2014.

Tracks #1, #4, #6, #8 Published by Imagem Music Ltd
Tracks #3, #5, #10 Published by AMF Music
Tracks #2, #11 Published by Imagem Music Ltd
Tracks #7, #9 Published by Imagem Music Ltd/Copyright Control

Chris Reifert courtesy of Autopsy & Peaceville Records
Recorded at HipCro Productions, Benicia, CA
Eric Cutler courtesy of Autopsy & Peaceville Records. 

On some Digital platforms the sample of Ted Bundy in "Anne" was removed.

A video was made for "Church of Vastitas".

 

 

 

Moonblood - Fullmoonwitchery [ep] (2013)

 

 Moonblood was formed in Germany in February 1994 by Gaamalzagoth (vocals) and Occulta Mors (all instruments). The band released a wealth of demos and their first full-length album, Blut & Krieg, was released in 1996. A couple of splits and more demos followed and in 2000 the second album, Taste Our German Steel! was released. The band at this time was already defunct (1999). 

 

 

Tracklist:

 1.     Fullmoon Witchery     04:30
2.     Under the Abyssic Black Wings of the Third Angel     05:28

09:58

 

 Line up:

⸸ Gaamalzagoth (vocals)

⸸ Occulta Mors (all instruments).

 

 

 

 Label: Iron Bonehead Productions.

Recorded September 22, 1996 Digan Tonstudio.
Track 1 originally appeared on the Encyclopedia Pestilentia compilation. 

 

 

 

Insaniam - Neurotic Mental Storm (2015)

 

 Extreme metal band from Spain born in 2013. Their sound is characterized by black melodies, but it also combines elements from other branches such as thrash or death.

 In fact, it's origins date back a long time ago, when five undiagnosed mental patients are admitted to a high-security psychiatric facility... After years of quarantine, isolated from any human contact, they are selected to participate on an experiment that ultimately lead to a pathological phenomenon called Insaniam.

''Neurotic Mental Storm'' is the first studio album by Insaniam. It was released on 11 september 2015. Recorded, mixed and masterized at Shade Studios (Albacete, Spain).

 Insaniam is not a conventional black metal band. Take a deep breath, close your eyes, open and raise your psyche and immerse yourself inside this universe of wildness and dementia.

 

 

 Tracklist:

1.     Enter the Insaniam     01:02       instrumental
2.     Intoxicated Call     04:06
3.     Fall and Rise     05:08
4.     Thy Eternal Calm     03:52
5.     Infernal Waves of Time     04:50
6.     Blind with Rage     03:26
7.     Sensory Dawn of Release     06:37

29:01

 

 Line up:

 • Psycho : Bass
• Theryan : Drums
• Dementh : Guitars
• Anxxiet : Guitars
• Neuros : Vocals. 

 

 

 

 Label: Independent.

Recorded, mixed and mastered at Shade Studios (Albacete, Spain).