Black Wizard is a Stoner Doom Metal band hailing from the cold North (Canada to be precise). Despite all the precepts about the North to be cold and unforgiving as one often sees in modern-day […]

Aorlhac is a French Black Metal trio, one that has been around for over a decade now. In that time, they have released two full-length releases as well as a Demo, a Compilation album and […]

Katla is one of Iceland’s biggest volcanos. The volcano has not erupted violently since 1918. Meanwhile, Katla is also a musical co-operation between Fortíð, Potentiam singer/multi-instrumentalist Einar Thorberg Guðmundsson and ex-Sólstafir drummer and visual artist […]

The project featuring a movie director, members of Tool, Mastodon, Zappa Plays Zappa etc. is very much as you’d imagine even before you see the band’s name. It’s odd. It just is. Legend of the […]

Helvetestromb is, despite the name change and a slight change in sound, the same Swedish band founded back in 2010 under the name Skoll. And while they still retain their very dirty Punk-related Black Metal […]

Monads is a Belgium-based quintet which, since their inception seven years ago, have released both a Demo and, more recently, their first Full-length album. The common demoninator for both of these releases is Monads powerfully […]

Since I initially discovered Long Distance Calling in 2010, the band has been incising the presence of vocals in their music. This mainly instrumental band did have tradition of including a guest vocalist on a […]

In 1992 W.A.S.P. released The Crimson Idol an album, which not only defined their career, but became one of the finest concept albums in the history of Heavy Metal. Now some 25 years later, W.A.S.P. […]

Swiss rockers’ previous album High Noon saw them reuniting with the original singer Mark Fox after a couple (solid) albums released with John Prakesh on vocals. The return was yet another solid release from Shakra, […]