4th March 2024
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 […]
1st March 2024
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 […]
29th February 2024
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 […]
27th February 2024
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 […]
19th February 2024
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 […]
18th February 2024
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, […]
17th February 2024
Cruel Force is, by both their own admission and that of their label, a German Blackened Death Metal quartet heavily inspired by the First Wave Of Black Metal (which, by and large, were Thrash Metal […]
13th February 2024
Insepulto is a Costa Rican-based Oldschool Death Metal duo with theoretically quite a few years under their belt – The original incarnation of the band draws roots back more than thirty years from what I […]
12th February 2024
The nautical theme grabbed my interest. An instrumental album, atmospheric soundscape / metal hybrid. Most heavy metal themes revolve around witches, apocalypse, and monsters. The Swiss quintet’s debut album is a six-song set covering nearly […]
8th February 2024
What we got here is a relatively newly released split-tape containing the music from two brutal bands from Finland. It’s been released via French-based Nihilistic Holocaust Records, which is now established as a one of […]
6th February 2024
With the release of a double MC entitled The Secrets Of The Black Arts (Reissue), Darkness Shall Rise Productions has now re-released most of the early recordings from leading Swedish black metal band Dark Funeral. […]
5th February 2024
In Vain’s Back to Nowhere is their sixth release, a first of their song sets for this metal fan. A fine rock n roll cocktail of power metal, speed, and thrash, a sonic assault. The […]
5th February 2024
Dwall is a six-piece act from the Norewgian capital, Oslo. The band was founded in 2014, and the current line-up consists of Stian Hammer (bass), Anders Johnsen (drums), Eigil Dragvik (guitar), Rikke Karlsen (guitar), Siri […]
3rd February 2024
Harvest Gulgatha is a US-based Black/Death Metal trio who, despite being a bit late to the proverbial party (having seen their inception in 2012) nevertheless have so far managed to release two Full-length releases, one […]
2nd February 2024
A little late to the party, I finally managed to get my hands on the record Ecclesia Gnostica (‘The Church Of Gnosis’, a Christian church based in the US), the debut Full-length record from Paris-based […]
21st June 2024
Photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com In 2021 Scottish Dvne released Etemen Ænka which ended up being one of the strongest releases of the year and in fact an album that helped define progressive metal in this time […]
20th June 2024
Photo: Goran www.urbanmescalero.com One of the big names at this year’s Copenhell are California’s The Offspring, who haven’t played Copenhagen in a long long time. Off the bat it seems bit illogical that they were […]
20th June 2024
Photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com Corey Taylor had always been a busy man, unfolding his creativity in many directions. Ever since Stone Sour was placed on indefinite hiatus, Taylor focused on his solo career, alongside his bread-and-butter Slipknot. […]
13th June 2024
Houle is a French Black Metal quintet, one whom I had the pleasure of reviewing their debut EP some two years ago. In the interim between then and now they have not only seen it […]
12th June 2024
The Raging Project emerges from Project Rage, conceived in 2007 in Besançon, France by Ivan Jacquin and Lionel Fevre. This initially an electro-metal duo was later joined by female vocalist Jeannick Valleur. In 2009 they […]
11th June 2024
It’s a bit strange to write a review of a material released three years ago, and after I’ve reviewed Vol. 2 prior to this release. Meanwhile, what we have here is Austrian Metal News – […]
10th June 2024
Photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com Last year Richie Kotzen guested Pumpehusert in Copenhagen together with The Winery Dogs and shortly after the band’s drummer Mike Portnoy announced his return to Dream Theater and Kotzen announced his European […]
10th June 2024
A long time waiting on this heavy rock set by the New York Hudson River Valley quartet. Their 2016 debut Sun Killer album is a retro rising bullet on my hot album chart. It’s 2024, […]
10th June 2024
I don’t know the reason why this material was sent to me for a review almost four years after its initial release?! Despite what I have just said, hereby I’ll try to say a few […]
5th June 2024
Special thanks to the Catholic Church in Poland for being an endless source of fucking badass lyrical inspiration for many of the country’s extreme metal bands. Polish extreme metal has a tradition of attacking the […]
