EGO PLANET was founded by guitarist/bassist Chris Baker in 2020. Baker apparently wrote the majority of the material whilst quarantine (remember those days?) was going on. Baker found himself in New Jersey at the time […]
Promenada Ciszy (Polish for ‘Promenade Of Silence’) is the second Full-length release of the Depressive Black Metal trio Signs Of The Dying Summer (or SotDS for short). The band consists of former members of the […]
What do you do when an album titled Bombs, Babes and Bazookas by a band named Bazooka Troopaz comes along? Do you laugh? Do you cry? Do you hold your head in your hands for […]
Two months after the initial release, comes this eagerly anticipated release on CD and MC. There are three different bands named Ossuary, but the one we’re talking of here is US-based old-school death/doom metal trio […]
“Dark. Sexy. Loud.” This is what you’re promised by The Fixer, a rather bizarre-looking, sex-dungeon-inspired quintet from Canada. They promise you this in relation to their debut full-length effort entitled Your Lie. Unlike a lot […]
2023 has proven to be an exceptionally good year for me personally – Several good releases have been popping up thruoghout the year, several bands I never thought I would get the chance to see […]
Lunar Tombfields (named after a song by German Death Metal act Venenum) is a French Atmospheric Black Metal duet with apparent roots going back to the original COVID pandemic, marking their inception as a musical […]
On two previous occasions we’ve presented you with this Canadian band called The Blood Of Christ. First it was the review of their previous third full-length entitled Chapter III – The Lonely Flowers Of Autumn, […]
Is this 1985? Fire Starter is a time warp. The follow up to Slowburn’s 2020 debut, Rock n Roll Rats. Album number two picks up where they left off, rocking your face off. The album […]
Steamachine is a relative young metal band hailing from the city of Olsztyn, Poland. It’s founded by Krystian “Juras” Jurkiewicz and Konrad “Gałązka” Gałązka. They released their debut full-length in 2022 entitled Arctic Fire (in […]
Cthulhuss are Polish death doomsters, founded in 2017. Other than this, there’s not much info on this combo, and they seem to live in the deepest and most evil and ugly underground world. In other […]
Continuum Of Xul is an Italian Death Metal quartet, founded at an unknown time and place in said country – However, the FaceBook page of the band has been up and active since 2019, so […]
W Czeluść, (which is Polish, roughly translated it means ‘Into The Depths’) is a Split album by two Polish Black Metal acts by the names Angrrsth (no known meaning that I could find) and Czort […]
The metal community saw the birth of the Italian band Huronian in 2020. The band currently consists of Daniele Lupidi (vocals), Umberto Poncina (rhythm guitar), Tommaso Pellegrini (lead guitar), Gianluca Trotta (bass guitar) & Marcello […]
Tilintetgjort (Norwegian for ‘Destroyed’) is a Norwegian Avantgarde Black Metal quintet, made up of band members from a wide range of Black Metal-related acts, including Den Saakaldte and Whip – And, unsurprisingly, the music of […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com Green Lunge’s story is somewhat weird, with the band’s debut album coming out one year before the pandemic paralysed the world, but just in time for the band to seal the deal […]
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 […]
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 […]