1st March 2024
In the beginning of his solo career, Bruce Dickinson did that, which is generally the main reason for members of successful acts to even go solo. Dickinson released his first solo album in 1990, while […]
29th February 2024
There’s a few people whom I’ve promised a review earlier this year, but due some personal issues I can first leave up to my promise and deliver a review now. One of those is Bitume […]
27th February 2024
Witches Hollow is a band that I have been having a surprisingly hard time finding any real concrete information about. What I have been able to gather that was somewhat easily verifiable is the fact […]
19th February 2024
Arkona is, put quite simply, another example of the statement I made the last time I reviewed a Polish release: When they set their minds to something, there seems to be something inherently perfectionistic in […]
18th February 2024
Now if there is one thing I have learned over the years it is the fact that the Polish do nothing half-assed – If they set out to, for instance, create a Death Metal album, […]
17th February 2024
Cruel Force is, by both their own admission and that of their label, a German Blackened Death Metal quartet heavily inspired by the First Wave Of Black Metal (which, by and large, were Thrash Metal […]
13th February 2024
Insepulto is a Costa Rican-based Oldschool Death Metal duo with theoretically quite a few years under their belt – The original incarnation of the band draws roots back more than thirty years from what I […]
12th February 2024
The nautical theme grabbed my interest. An instrumental album, atmospheric soundscape / metal hybrid. Most heavy metal themes revolve around witches, apocalypse, and monsters. The Swiss quintet’s debut album is a six-song set covering nearly […]
8th February 2024
What we got here is a relatively newly released split-tape containing the music from two brutal bands from Finland. It’s been released via French-based Nihilistic Holocaust Records, which is now established as a one of […]
6th February 2024
With the release of a double MC entitled The Secrets Of The Black Arts (Reissue), Darkness Shall Rise Productions has now re-released most of the early recordings from leading Swedish black metal band Dark Funeral. […]
5th February 2024
In Vain’s Back to Nowhere is their sixth release, a first of their song sets for this metal fan. A fine rock n roll cocktail of power metal, speed, and thrash, a sonic assault. The […]
5th February 2024
Dwall is a six-piece act from the Norewgian capital, Oslo. The band was founded in 2014, and the current line-up consists of Stian Hammer (bass), Anders Johnsen (drums), Eigil Dragvik (guitar), Rikke Karlsen (guitar), Siri […]
3rd February 2024
Harvest Gulgatha is a US-based Black/Death Metal trio who, despite being a bit late to the proverbial party (having seen their inception in 2012) nevertheless have so far managed to release two Full-length releases, one […]
2nd February 2024
A little late to the party, I finally managed to get my hands on the record Ecclesia Gnostica (‘The Church Of Gnosis’, a Christian church based in the US), the debut Full-length record from Paris-based […]
30th January 2024
See, this is something really special, an untraditional and alternative piece of music, rather a timeless poetry! I’m talking about Aalborg, Danish based post-metal/post-hardcore/blackgaze quartet going under the moniker of Vægtløs. For those of you […]
17th May 2024
The Enduring Spirit is the fourth studio album by Canadian death metal trio Tomb Mold. This seven-tracker album was released through 20 Buck Spin in autumn last year (2023). After releasing three albums in three […]
16th May 2024
Mazzaroth is a sophomore release, a follow-up to 2020 debut The Great Demise, by a Swedish quartet going under the moniker of Sodomisery. Line-up consists of Harris Sopovic (vocals & guitar), Teddy Möller (guitar and […]
15th May 2024
First let me apologize for this late review of a material released nearly a year and a half ago, but I believe it’s better late than never. In the last year or so, we’ve presented […]
14th May 2024
When Slayer called it a day in 2019 it was clear that band’s guitarist Kerry King was not ready for retirement and that wish to put the band into the grave was a decision by […]
14th May 2024
Our partners from Necroeucharist Productions have been kind to provide us once again with a lot of their latest releases. One of these is of a Norwegian black metal legends Urgehal, and their latest album […]
13th May 2024
Poland is mostly known for its strong extreme metal scene, but this time we have something different coming out from Poland. Doomster Reich is a five piece psychedelic & doom metal band from Łódź, Poland. […]
13th May 2024
Ten years have passed since the release of the previous album from former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach and Give ‘Em Hell, was his strongest release to date. It took Bach more than a decade […]
13th May 2024
Out of Germany comes a pioneering Stoner band that even Google can’t shed much light on. Transonic Science – a band name that evokes images of Teutonic Thrash rather than Stoner Rock – have been […]
12th May 2024
Three years ago I was blessed with the chance to review the first release from then-newcomers Forever Falling (despite both members having significant experience from other genres) – And for the last week, I have […]
8th May 2024
All music reviews are subjective. On that note, all the sub-genres of heavy metal, speed/thrash metal, I’m a harsh critic. An unfair situation for modern speed metal bands. Why? My early teens, I was there […]
