Raw metal sounds spewing out of Leeds UK. A crossover throwback. Think golden age of thrash/punk/metal sounds, think Slayer Haunting the Chapel era screeching hellfire conjuring guitar wails, Exodus, Testament, Cro Mags, influenced and reminiscent […]

6Exhance is Belgium power trio, formed in 2021. It consists of Peter Verdonck (saxophone and screams), David Jean’s Nokerman (guitar and bass effects) and Kjell de Raes (drums). The band have self released their debut […]

This is going to be a relatively quick review since we are dealing with four-tracker MCD. But first a few words on the artist; Witchfuck (took their name from the track “Witchfuck” off of the […]

Chasing Zeniths is the progressive and symphonic rock brainchild of songwriter, composer and vocalist Carl Kernie. His base is in Seattle, Washington, but his latest project Chasing Zeniths is an international project consisting of 10 […]

In many ways a love letter to the old-school Black Metal scene of the nineties, German quintet Total Hate sprung into existance a decade after the fact, encompassing straight off the bat, all the things […]

Rising from the ashes of Manu Armata comes Boneripper, a Dutch metallic hardcore quintet consisting of Eric (guitar), Jeljer (guitar), WD (vocals), Douwe (bass) and Kees-Jan (drums). In the accompanying press that came with this […]

Old Temple returns to the roots of (in this case a Polish) metal, and with undisguised pride presents next re-release. This time it’s the re-release of Politics, a twelve-tracker sophomore album by Quo Vadis (a […]

To be honest I find most of one-man acts to be boring and uninspiring. Therefore my expectations towards another one-man project were pretty low. Luckily, to times we get surprised and it’s exactly what I […]

Yet another example, here at the start of the new year, of a band that is just up my proverbial alley that somehow managed to go completely undetected by me and my clearly defective musical […]

Never before did I had to do a review of a material that is 14 years old, while having almost no information about the act, nevertheless that’s exactly the case with Hell’s Death Metal. It’s […]

Released exactly a month ago via ‘Running Wild Productions’, For the Loud and the Aggressive (10 Year Anniversary Edition) is the re-release of Morbid Strike’ debut album supplemented with a cover version of Tankard’s “Zombie […]

In 2020, we stated the following in the review of the band’s previous album: “With ‘Fistful of Fire’ they not only released their strongest release in a long time, but anno 2020 they stand firmly […]

Anyone who had followed my writing for the past two decades will know that I’m a big worshipper of a thrash metal. Little can surprise me after listening for, thrash metal in particular, for more […]

If I were to say one thing about the record label Darkness Shall Rise, it would be that they have an almost uncanny ability to find, acquire the rights to, and re-release somehow overlooked gems […]