Åsse, despite being named after the Norwegian name for ‘mountain ridge’, is in actuality an Italian Black Metal Duet (hence the honourable nod to Norway I am assuming – After all, their genre of choice, […]

Hailing from Tampere (Finland), The Lifted Veil is a six-piece black/death metal formation founded ten years ago (2014), by Henri Kyllästinen and Mikko Koskinen. Later that year Aleksi Koistinen, Topi Hiltunen and Jere Korpela joined […]

Heretique is something rather interesting from a sociological point of view – It is a Polish five-piece band that has been around since 2007 and has somewhat consistently been releasing new material since that time. […]

As you already know many subgenres in metal are both a blessing and a curse for me. Sometimes it helps to describe the sound of a band that our readers might not be familiar with, […]

An album as cerebral as it is expansive. The band’s debut album comes out of the cosmos, sparks of supernovas, collapsed star gamma rays, pulse through your speakers. An all-instrumental affair, Retrogradient is complex. A […]

Alpha Lyrae is a musical project of Guido Jeri (vocals, guitar and bass), a Peruvian solo artist residing in London, UK. Alpha Lyræ is his self-titled debut album containing six quite lengthy songs. Thus, each […]

Anyone knowing me for long time knows that a classic thrash has always been one of my favorite metal genres, especially during the golden era of thrash metal, from 1984 to 1994. It was also […]

Death Blood is something (for me) as novel as a brutal Death Metal trio hailing from my beloved France – Which, despite my strong affinity for the countrys Metal scene, has for the most part […]

Dark Horizon is an as-of-yet independent German Melodic Death/Black Metal quartet – One that was officially founded back in 2006 under the name Devastation, even if the name was altered to the above-described Dark Horizon […]

Miles2fall is still a relatively young band from Germany that was founded in 2021 by former members of Mindcrime and Groophe. After just two years of band’s existence, the full-length debut entitled Lower Skies, was […]

Chilean-based Iron Blood and Death Corporation provided us with another high quality release. This time it’s with their countrymen from Deconsekrated. The band, which consists of; Gûl Evokator (vocals), Fides Naash (bass), Agorh Skullptor (guitars) […]

Enter the big game. Tropic Santos formed in Milan, Italy 2018.  The instrumental group bring varied influences, a psychedelic / stoner band, a post-punk hardcore outfit and an experimental lo-fi band.  The three coalesce into […]

It might not be the best, but this is surely one of the most exciting pieces of music I’ve heard in a long time. Located in Skåne, Sweden, Tusenårseken (translates to; a thousand-year-old oak) is […]

Originally founded in 1992 in the German capital (Berlin), Drowned recently released just their second full-length entitled Procul His. It arrives ten years after its 2014 predecessor, first full-length Idola Specus. Before you now think […]