I know it’s nine months after its official release, but I simply had to give this record a few spins and write a short review. What we have here is something quite unique and exotic, […]
A split release, two psych/stoner rock bands from the misty green deep forests of the Pacific Northwest (PNW). The album art is an early era Dungeons & Dragons styled illustration. When creating your half elven […]
Scandi DIY-ers Swartzheim are at it again. After a rather quiet 2021 debut, these Crossover-thrash Danes have spent two years “consolidating themselves as a live entity”, primarily playing gigs, clubs, parties and festivals in their […]
Chorosia are a progressive sludge quartet from Vienna, Austria. The band was founded in summer of 2017, with purpose of creating the music ‘they wanna hear’. The band consists of Anto Pranjić (vocals & guitars), […]
CDN Records released this split entitled Eastern Beast – Western Wolf between a brutal death metal legends from Japan called Vomit Remnants (Eastern Beast) and a Canadian (Western Wolf) brutal death metal legends, Blood Of […]
A split album, two bands on one disc. Earth Altar kicks off the two band effort. Two Canadian bands put down an 8-song set. Excellent fantasy sci-fi album art is a draw. Sometimes, yes, we […]
La Nausée is a groove/sludge/crust/punk/hardcore/metal project hailing from Ghent, Belgium. They Prey is trio’s third EP in three years, and it consists of five tracks, namely; “Pest”, “Blinders”, “They Prey”, “Venom” and “Spectre”. Their fellow-Belgium […]
Dauðaró is an Icelandic Funeral Doom Metal one-man act – One that, despite having only sprung into existance a handful of years ago, has been very active overall. Case in point, two years ago (in […]
Four years have passed since the release of Baroness’ previous album Gold & Grey, and now they are ready with the follow-up, which marks the current line-up’s second album. Stone also marks the band’s first album […]
It’s rather rare to see a black-thrash record clocking at almost 74 minutes, but nevertheless it’s the case with Carry the Beast. It’s seventh studio album by Norway’s Nocturnal Breed, released earlier this summer by […]
From the Apennine peninsula a doom rock Italian quartet are ready to bust out on the metal scene. Their debut full length album is out worldwide September 30. The album art resembles tattoo flash art. […]
There’s not much info, at least not in English, about this German-based band called Driven By Impact. However, it should not prevent me to say a few words on them and their debut EP entitled […]
Wilczyca (polish for ‘She-Wolf’) popped up on my radar for the first time two years ago when they released their then third Full-length release – And looking up my own scribble on our website i […]
Ulthar is a unholy trio hailing from Oakland, California. The band consists of Steve Peacock (bass & vocals), Shelby Lermo (guitars & vocals) and Justin Ennis (drums). Over the course of their first two albums, […]
Out of France comes a new addition to the halls of Alternative Metal and that addition is called Smokeheads. So far, so good. Attempting to build on the works of illustrious musicians such as Devin […]
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 […]