Persefone is a progressive death metal band that you may not know of, hailing from a small country that you’d find hard to locate on a map. The name of the country known for its […]

Las Casas Viejas is a German-Austrian six-piece that is completely new in this world (founded sometime earlier this year) so you would be forgiven if you, like me, have never even heard of them. Judging […]

Oversense is a melodic and epic power & heavy metal band from Northern Bavaria, Germany. The band was founded in 2012, releasing their 2014 EP Dreamcatcher. Finally a long-waited debut full-length The Storyteller is here. […]

Let’s get the ridiculous out of the way. After the success of Myrkur’s debut album M, the (black) metal community went nuts because of Amalie Bruun’s pop-meets-Paradise Hotel past. Ok that’s more than enough about […]

Just recently I’ve had a pleasure of listening to a true gem from former Yugoslavia (Bosnia & Hercegovina) with a cult black metal act Bombarder. It was their first LP Speed Kill from 1989. This […]

Metamorphosis is the second time that I have had the pleasure of listening to a release from the Tunisian-based sextet Persona – Which is not all that surprising, considering that this is their second overall album. […]

Of the two quintets that donated tracks to this Split, Ancst is by a wide margin the most active. Since their inception six years ago, the Berlin-based band has released a staggering sixteen albums (primarily […]

Wakboth is a Finnish quintet, born and raised in the nineties as a love child of sorts between the rising Second Wave Black Metal scene and the more traditional Punk and Thrash Metal approach (this […]

Soul Dissolution is, in all its simplicity, a Belgian take on the very melancholic and sometimes even depressive version of Black Metal, that has risen to prominence more and more over the years. The band […]

There are many similarities between myself and the guys from Bombarder. The band was born in 1986 in Sarajevo, Bosnia/Yugoslavia, the same year when I discovered heavy metal and in the same country as myself. […]