Ponte Del Diavolo – De Venom Natura (2026) – Review

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Ponte Del Diavolo, or devil’s bridge in English. You got a bunch of them across Northern Italy and neighboring Switzerland. There is one in Cividale del Friuli in the North-East. The one Corte Di Lunas famously rocked about. The Ponte della Maddalena in Borgo a Mozzano, Tuscany, is another famous one. But let’s turn to the one just outside Turin. Located in Lanzo Torinese, a few clicks away from the city, this is the one that might have inspired the band’s name. A mystery of a construction, apparently built by the devil himself for the price of one soul.1… [...] Click to raid more!

Todtgelichter – Rooms (2016) – Review

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“Wenn du gestorben bist, bist du allein!”

Wow!

Harsh Teutonic sounds pouring out of my earphones from the rainy, water-logged flats of Hamburg in good old Northern Germany. And you will find a few more soundbites of the same ilk on this disc.

Rooms is like the possessed evil twin of the usually somewhat genteel Progressive Metal genre talking to you. The one that has gone down the Black Metal road, and then got second thoughts.

And it is not easy fare, pretty hard on your system and eardrums too. Like a progressive mixture of a darker Myrkur and their album M with … [...] Click to raid more!