Coming out just as the pandemic basically snoozed the world, Dool were unlucky with their previous album, Summerland. Well unlucky because they had their absolute career highlight on their hands and one of the strongest […]
The Norwegian band hit the absolute bullseye with their third album Ænigma in 2013 and since then they have released only one more album. 2018 Currents was a really good record, but it never matched […]
Sacrum Funeral is a materialization of the funeral psalms, released by a Polish horde going under the moniker of Cultum Interium. The 12″ vinyl was released at the end of 2023, in a collaboration with […]
Hulder manages to tick off most of the points I seem to have been talking about for years now about what makes a truly great band. It is a solo act (meaning that there is […]
Jours Pâles is a French Black Metal duo, one that I have had the pleasure of following since their inception back in 2019; At the time known as Asphodèle, a Post-Black Metal act – The […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 & […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
June 21st was the day when Northern Hemisphere turned towards darker times again, but it was also the date for the release of the debut album from Sweden’s Abysmal Winds. It’s entitled Magna Pestilencia and […]
This review comes a little late, but it’s not long time ago that this CD landed on my doorstep. Thus, now I can devote myself to the 2024 EP entitled Apparitions. It’s a six-tracker release […]
Pâenil Era is a Romanian post-black metal solo project of Erwin Weber, initially founded in 2012 under the moniker of Signatura Rerum. According to the the mastermind behind the project itself, it’s ‘symbolizing a broken […]
This time it’s not because of my laziness or lack of interest in the music that I first write a review of the material released at the end of 2023. The truth is that I […]
Shock the Algorithm is a trio from Greece. A polished, tight band. Very unpunk in a lot of ways, and that makes it punk rock. “Eat the rich” and all that business. Several of the […]
Permanently on the lookout for new blood, Denny from Darkness Shall Rise Productions has released this Digipak-CD w. 8-page booklet – all available on CD, MC, two separate MLPs and Digital. We are talking of […]
In 2020 Little Rock, Arkansas-based combo Terminal Nation released their debut full-length Holocene Extinction. Since releasing the first album, the band’s current formation is Chase Turner (bass & vocals), Stan Liszewski (vocals), Tommy Robinson (guitar), […]
Tennessee and stoner rock so far have been a sweet pair. When Wyndrider’s latest album landed in my promo stack, it moved to the top. Stoner rock sounds, check. From the Tennessee Appalachian mountains, check. […]
Armageddon Patronage is the second full-length from Copenhagen’s trio going under the moniker of Strychnos. The band was originally formed back in 1998, but things were pretty quiet in the Strychnos camp for many years. […]
From Lexington, Kentucky hails Misanthropik Torment. A couple of years ago we have presented this American duo to our readers, but for those still unfamliar with this duo, I can tell that Misanthropik Torment is; […]