Label: Metal Scrap / Release Date: 24th November 2016 73% From the Shores - Of Apathy - 73% Founded in 2008 by five Italians with a penchant for lyrical themes revolving around pain and death. […]

Label: Hänsel & Gretel / Release Date: 18th March 2016 88% Scarlet Anger - Freak Show - 88% Scarlet Anger is a Thrash Metal quintet, one that has been around for a decade and counting, […]

Label: Dark Essence / Release Date: 8th December 2014 83% Taake Stridens Hus - 83% This is the third time that Bato has given me the honour of looking through one of Hoests (as the […]

Label: Sliptrick / Release Date: 2015 55% Bear Bone Company - Bear Bone Company - 55% A Swedish trio sworn to bring back the old-fashioned Hard Rock sound from the last four decades, according to […]

Label: Metal Scrap / Release Date: 5th March 2015 55% D.Hate – L.I.F.E (Look Into Fear's Eyes) - 55% D.Hate is a Ukrainian quartet that saw the light of day back in 2010. And in […]

Label: Metal Scrap Records / Release date: 24th March 2017 78% 1000Dead – 1000Dead - 78% 1000Dead is a metal band from Rethymno (Crete, Greece). This is my first encounter with this hard-hitting trio, as […]

Label: Saturnal / Release Date: 28th April 2017 51% Barathrum – Fanatiko - 51% Finnish sextet Barathrum (founded back in 1990 under the name Darkfeast) are, given, the extensive amounts of years that they have […]

Label: Mascot Records / Release date: 17th February 2017 80% Black Sites – In Monochrome - 80% Their sound might be one of the strangest combinations in the world of extreme music, but then again […]

Label: Record Breaking / Release Date: 24th February 2017 83% Striker - Striker - 83% Canadian-based Heavy Metal quartet Striker is one of those bands that seem to show up out of nowhere with a […]

Label: Listenable / Release Date: 10th March 2017 85% Lock Up - Demonization - 85% It never ceases to amaze me how many bands are out there. Specifically, the sheer amount of bands that I […]

Label: Listenable / Release Date: 24th February 2017 71% Hetroertzen – Uprising of the Fallen - 71% Originally a Chilean-based Black Metal quartet, the members have since their inception (all the way back in 1997, […]

Label: I Hate / Release date: 24th October 2016 70% Zaum – Eidolon - 70% Psychedelic Doom is not my favorite metal genre, but it was a pleasant surprise when Zaum’s Eidolon begun to spin […]

Label: Emanations / Release Date: 20th July 2016 50% Les Acteurs de l'Ombre Sampler MMXVI - 50% Not so much an album in its own right as a compilation of everything the label has to […]

Label: Metal Mind / Release Date: 17th July 2009 89% Augury – Fragmentary Evidence - 89% Canadian-based quartet Augury has been around for fifteen years at the time of this scribble, and in that time, […]