12th April 2024
Profane Burial is a self-proclaimed ‘cinematic’ Black Metal band, one that aspires to mix together the epic scores of a film soundtrack with that of a heavily melodious Black Metal sound – I seem to […]
11th April 2024
Founded in 2017, Meridion is a four-piece death metal combo hailing from Santiago, Chile. The band consists of Southern Curse (guitars, synths, horns & vocals), Bonefucker (bass), Shoort Dagon (drums) and Condanatore (keyboards). In 2018 […]
11th April 2024
Corpus Diavolis is a French Black/Death Metal quintet which a philosophical bent alongside both the occult and satanic approaches often seen in these genres. This quickly becomes clear both in regard to how they name […]
10th April 2024
Running Wild Productions (a non-profit label) & Mr. Rainer has done it again, released another very interesting CD-sampler. It’s entitled Austrian Metal News – The Power Of The Heavy Thrasher Vol. 2 and it, as […]
10th April 2024
Mòr is a French Black Metal duo, one that has been around and somewhat active at least since 2014 – As far as releases are concerned, their debut happened the next year where a Demo […]
9th April 2024
Åsse, despite being named after the Norwegian name for ‘mountain ridge’, is in actuality an Italian Black Metal Duet (hence the honourable nod to Norway I am assuming – After all, their genre of choice, […]
8th April 2024
Hailing from Tampere (Finland), The Lifted Veil is a six-piece black/death metal formation founded ten years ago (2014), by Henri Kyllästinen and Mikko Koskinen. Later that year Aleksi Koistinen, Topi Hiltunen and Jere Korpela joined […]
5th April 2024
Heretique is something rather interesting from a sociological point of view – It is a Polish five-piece band that has been around since 2007 and has somewhat consistently been releasing new material since that time. […]
4th April 2024
As you already know many subgenres in metal are both a blessing and a curse for me. Sometimes it helps to describe the sound of a band that our readers might not be familiar with, […]
3rd April 2024
An album as cerebral as it is expansive. The band’s debut album comes out of the cosmos, sparks of supernovas, collapsed star gamma rays, pulse through your speakers. An all-instrumental affair, Retrogradient is complex. A […]
3rd April 2024
Alpha Lyrae is a musical project of Guido Jeri (vocals, guitar and bass), a Peruvian solo artist residing in London, UK. Alpha Lyræ is his self-titled debut album containing six quite lengthy songs. Thus, each […]
1st April 2024
Anyone knowing me for long time knows that a classic thrash has always been one of my favorite metal genres, especially during the golden era of thrash metal, from 1984 to 1994. It was also […]
1st April 2024
Death Blood is something (for me) as novel as a brutal Death Metal trio hailing from my beloved France – Which, despite my strong affinity for the countrys Metal scene, has for the most part […]
28th March 2024
Dark Horizon is an as-of-yet independent German Melodic Death/Black Metal quartet – One that was officially founded back in 2006 under the name Devastation, even if the name was altered to the above-described Dark Horizon […]
27th March 2024
Miles2fall is still a relatively young band from Germany that was founded in 2021 by former members of Mindcrime and Groophe. After just two years of band’s existence, the full-length debut entitled Lower Skies, was […]
8th August 2024
Here we go again – time for another supergroup. Sure, the term has been used more than it’s healthy for its own good, but what else do you call a band consisting of current and […]
2nd August 2024
A few months ago I wrote the review for Chapter One, so I’d recommend going back and reading it first. For those unfamiliar with Nemoreus, I can briefly tell that Nemoreus is a six-member Austrian […]
1st August 2024
Since the 1960s, progressive rock has pushed the boundaries of rock n’ roll music to incorporate longer songs, conceptual lyrics and advanced compositions and techniques. Here we have a band that does exactly that, playing […]
31st July 2024
Winters Breath is an Austrian (Vienna-based) metal project founded in 2020 and highly influenced by symphonic/progressive black & melodic death metal. ‘There are always stories, Stories not worthy to be told, Stories containing to much […]
26th July 2024
The Heretic started as a solo project of Stephan Larsen (who’s responsible for all the guitars, bass, vocal, drum programming) in 2020. However the idea for this project has been in the making for years. […]
23rd July 2024
This particular Split, by its very nature, consists of two halves, and hence will be divided into its constituent parts as part of this scribble. The first half I will be delving into will be […]
14th July 2024
Cachot d’Effroi (French for Dread Dungeon) is a Raw Black Metal solo act, one that I am having quite a bit of trouble finding any information regarding. What I have been able to dig up […]
13th July 2024
Ergot De Seigle, aside from being a type of fungus, apparently one that can create entire forests of itself is, as of 2022, also a Raw Black Metal solo-project hailing from my beloved France. So […]
11th July 2024
Demonist is a French old-school Death Metal trio who, by their own admission, strive to keep alive the standard set by mid-era Morbid Angel. This has so far been done through a Single that earlier […]
10th July 2024
The commercial heyday for Sinner and L.A. Guns may have been in the 80’s, but their respective members, Michael Sweet and Tracii Guns, have been rather prolific with several projects during a course of the […]
