The side project (and one-man band) of the guitarist from fellow French Black Metal band Malevolentia (who also released a new album a short while ago), Heimsgard is still built up around a Black Metal […]

Over the last couple of years I have been more and more impressed by the French Black Metal scene. It is big, it is diverse, and no matter how many great bands you stumble across, […]

Ekram is a Spanish Hard Rock band, one with some degree of Heavy Metal (and, I suppose, a few Doom) influences scattered across their repertoire of tracks. These influences are most often seen as a […]

Near the beginning of this year Italian new-comers Revenience released their first full-length album under the title Daedalum. And while I can honestly say that I had never even heard about this quintet prior to […]

Pokerface (back in the 1980s, when I begun listening to metal, Pokerface would have been a great moniker for a metal band, but now, all I can think of is Lady Gaga) are not playing […]

Canadian-born quartet Black Wizard is quite the dedicated band. In the last six years they have released three full-length albums, each and every one of them riddled with tales of drugs and wild parties (as […]

Dutch trio Villainy have been anything but idle: In the six years that have passed since their inception they have released two demos, a compilation album, a single and, counting Dim, two full-length releases. And […]

Stortregn (Heavy Rain in Danish?!) is a four-piece extreme black/death metal formation. The band was founded in 2005 in Switzerland. Singularity, which consists of 9 ordinary and one bonus track “Neverending Singularity”, is their third […]