20th April 2024
With their previous release Etemen Ænka, Scottish Dvne, not only released the strongest album of their career, but also one of the strongest albums of 2021. Their bland of Post and Progressive Metal as well […]
19th April 2024
Heavy, meaty grooves. The first track “A.I.” is right out of the Black Sabbath heavy metal forge. Sparks of Orange Goblin and Nebula mixed in the metal alchemy. A slow, sludge, pumping mechanical drumbeats. A […]
19th April 2024
CAB (Christopher Augustino Botolon) is a solo artist Detriot, USA. CAB is basically an old school seasoned drummer/percussionist from Detroit, who’s been around including playing L.A. music scene 1982-1989, then returned home to Detroit in […]
18th April 2024
The British Doom Metal legends released their previous album The Ghost of Orion just days before the pandemic paralyzed the world in 2020. It was an important album for the band, because it came out after five […]
18th April 2024
Next band I choose to present today is Deathlike Dawn who hail from a Polish extreme metal scene that has achieved great international success and has become one of the most significant ambassadors of Polish […]
17th April 2024
Idiot Child are a five piece noise rock/sludge metal band from neighbouring Malmö, Sweden. The band currently consists of Melker Engelberger (drums), Isak Svensson (bass) Jonas Stojiljkovic (guitar), Oliver Dahl (guitar) Mikey Engelberger (vocals & […]
16th April 2024
Kouristus is a grindcore quartet from Tampere, Finland founded in 2012. The band has been active on the stage for many years and now their earned experience resulted in a completely new release from this […]
16th April 2024
Sunnata is in many ways a rather unique band. Musically, their doom cornerstone is inspired by the boggy grunge of 90’s Alice and Chains and the spellbinding depths of general Swans approach. And while on […]
15th April 2024
Necroeucharist Productions is a fairly new (since 2020) Black/Death metal label from Switzerland. One of their latest releases is from a Slovakian black/project metal band Klifot. I don’t even know if it is a one-man […]
12th April 2024
The Swedish (Kiruna-based) death metal band Those Who Bring The Torture has recently released their ninth album, Towards Decay via Iron, Blood and Death Corporation. For those of you still unfamiliar with this band, I […]
12th April 2024
Profane Burial is a self-proclaimed ‘cinematic’ Black Metal band, one that aspires to mix together the epic scores of a film soundtrack with that of a heavily melodious Black Metal sound – I seem to […]
11th April 2024
Founded in 2017, Meridion is a four-piece death metal combo hailing from Santiago, Chile. The band consists of Southern Curse (guitars, synths, horns & vocals), Bonefucker (bass), Shoort Dagon (drums) and Condanatore (keyboards). In 2018 […]
11th April 2024
Corpus Diavolis is a French Black/Death Metal quintet which a philosophical bent alongside both the occult and satanic approaches often seen in these genres. This quickly becomes clear both in regard to how they name […]
10th April 2024
Running Wild Productions (a non-profit label) & Mr. Rainer has done it again, released another very interesting CD-sampler. It’s entitled Austrian Metal News – The Power Of The Heavy Thrasher Vol. 2 and it, as […]
10th April 2024
Mòr is a French Black Metal duo, one that has been around and somewhat active at least since 2014 – As far as releases are concerned, their debut happened the next year where a Demo […]
24th June 2024
Tool press photo: Travis-Shinn (Photographers were banned from Tool’s Copenhell show) The progressive royalties are still out there supporting their latest album, Fear Inoculum, which came out almost five years ago. Perhaps the fact that […]
23rd June 2024
Photo: Goran www.urbanmescalero.com Previous day at Copenhell we got to see Biohazard and then we were treated by another New York City Hard Core band, Madball. Heaving its roots in late 80’s the band was […]
23rd June 2024
Photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com 15 years have passed since the pivotal release Wide Awake from Australian progressive metal band Karnivool and more than ten years have passed since the release of their latest album. But it’s […]
22nd June 2024
Photo: Goran www.urbanmescalero.com Some decade ago, Robb Flynn decided that Machine Head will not be playing festivals anymore because he didn’t really like them. But then something happened, and Machine Head recently started playing festivals […]
22nd June 2024
Photo: Goran www.urbanmescalero.com When Slayer played their final concert in 2019 it was clear that band’s guitarist Kerry King was not ready for retirement and that wish to put Slayer to rest was mostly driven […]
22nd June 2024
Photo: Goran www.urbanmescalero.com The opinions on Limp Bizkit are many, and they are very different, but regardless of what a typical Copenhell guest might think of the band, it’s likely that most would agree that […]
21st June 2024
Photo: Goran www.urbanmescalero.com Ever since their heyday in the 90’s New York Hard Core originals from Biohazard have been on and off with different line-ups. The classic line-up shortly reunited in late 00’s and then […]
21st June 2024
Photo: Goran www.urbanmescalero.com Somewhat of a scoop for Copenhell, looking at Mr. Bungle’s significance in 90’s when they released some of the most interesting and revolutionary experimental music. The band cantered around Mike Patton (Faith […]
21st June 2024
Archive photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com (Photographers were banned from Black Sabbath’s Copenhell show) Sadly Avenged Sevenfold’s career seriously took off after the passing of their drummer The Rev. Dream Theater’s Mike Portnoy stepped in for recording and […]
21st June 2024
Photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com In 2021 Scottish Dvne released Etemen Ænka which ended up being one of the strongest releases of the year and in fact an album that helped define progressive metal in this time […]
