Honestly, my boss really did not have to try hard to sell this record to me. I believe I discovered as much as the primary artist behind this project was of Darkenhöld fame (another French […]

Lilla Veneda is an extreme metal band from Wrocław, Poland. The band took the name from one of the most famous Polish romantic tragedies ‘Lilla Weneda’ written by Juliusz Slowacki. Now, this unholy Polish trio, […]

A long unending slog sifting through albums to review. It’s a good problem to have. It’s even better when the band is unsigned, free agents. Very little to go on, Nashville and stoner rock was […]

Out of Tampa, Florida, comes Hope Darling. I’m tempted to put a comma there, but the band members didn’t, so I guess I can’t. Oh, well. We’re not here to critique band names or the […]

Diabeł Boruta is a character from Polish mythology, folklore and literature, associated with the Polish town of Łęczyca. Meanwhile it is also a moniker for a Rzeszów-based quartet consisting of following members; Paweł Leniart (bass […]

Back in 2018 when British legends released Firepower it seemed as if the album might be their final. With K. K. Downing out of the band and Glenn Tipton not being part of the band’s […]

Griffon is a French Black Metal quartet with, so far twelve years underneath their collective belts, spread across an EP, a Split, a Collaboration and three Full-length releases – And while I will admit that […]

Adversvm is a German doom metal band, founded in 2015, which currently consists of Sascha Borchard (guitar/vocals), Fabian Guschlbauer (guitar), Jörg Uken (drums) and Don Zaros (keyboards). In 2023 this quartet released their highly anticipated […]

I’m sorry that I just recently have discovered this album, released in early summer last year. What we have here is the third full-length album from US-death metallers Torture Rack. It arrived five years since […]

26 years into their career, the kings of Norwegian death metal, Blood Red Throne celebrate with the release of their eleventh studio album entitled Nonagon. It arrives three years after this hard-hitting Norwegian quintet released […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]