12th June 2023
Recently I’ve had a pleasure to listen to many extreme metal release from our eastern neighbours from Poland. Here we have another one, this time a relatively young Polish black/death metal band Towards Hellfire, who […]
9th June 2023
Salaman Isku is the moniker of a Psychedelic Rock/Folk/Metal one-man-band from France. Thus, Salaman Isku, which means ‘lightning strike’ is an impressionist music project created by Julien J. Neuville in 2013 to develop his deep […]
9th June 2023
Many may not be accustomed to the atmosphere Walls have sequestered in for some time now, but under safe regard as to whether or not you know this infinitesimal slice of Belgian metallic hardcore, it […]
8th June 2023
About a year ago I had the pleasure of reviewing the debut EP of up-and-coming French Black Metal trio and, skimming what I wrote back then, I can see that much of what I surmised […]
7th June 2023
From time to time I receive some really remarkable and extra ordinary album for a review. One of these is with Luxembourg-band called ShadoWhisperS. The band is formed in 2009 and after a lot of […]
6th June 2023
Norwegian (hailing from the town of Stavanger) hardcore/metal quartet Panic Attack! recently released its new release entitled Don’t Stop via Music-Records! As their moniker might suggest, Panic Attack! represents lives of bipolar depression, confusion, anger, […]
5th June 2023
Qui Penis Aquam Turbat (Latin for ‘He who disturbs the water of the penis’?!?) is the new and third full-length album by the Polish Death ‘n’ Roll duo named Salceson X. Band’/side project’s moniker Salceson […]
30th May 2023
The last couple of years were hard for Metal Church camp, with the band’s singer Mike Howe suicide in 2021 and the band’s former drummer Kirk Arrington passing away this year. Arrington hasn’t been part […]
29th May 2023
Originally formed in 1990, Toxic Youth are Italian, Milano-based hard-core quartet which consists of Ale (vocals), Kri (guitar), Max (bass) & Hichy (drums). The band dominated the scene from mid-to late 90s with their uncompromising […]
26th May 2023
Holocene is the final part of the three-part saga from one of the most interesting progressive post metal acts of the past decade or so. The Ocean Collective’s massive concept of telling the story of […]
26th May 2023
A Horrible Death To a Horrible Man is of course a name you will know very well, unless you’re one of those freaks that don’t frequent Copenhagen’s Post-Metal scene. In other words: if you’re like […]
24th May 2023
Johann Cadot (guitars & vocals), a bandleader from a French quintet Asylum Pyre recently sent me their latest opus for review purpose. Apart from Johann the band also consists of a female vocalist Oxy Duprat, […]
23rd May 2023
Molekh is an extreme, avant-garde black & death metal quartet from Poland/Ireland. The band has been founded in 2017 in Dublin and it features three members of Polish black/folk metal band Thy Worshiper, but this […]
22nd May 2023
In 2015 Michael Sweet (Stryper) and George Lynch (Dokken, Lynch Mob, KMX) released their debut album under the mundane, but focus awaking, name Sweet & Lynch. Entitled Only to Rise, the debut was well composed and […]
17th May 2023
Warcore are a power-trio consisting of Carlo (bass), Francesco (drums) and Stefano (guitars & vocals). The band arrives from Pesaro, Italy, and they’ve been together for just about two years now. Their debut full-length is […]
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
Photo: Simona It has become a tradition, annual Metalized Tour around the country and its biggest cities. Metalized magazine (the oldest metal magazine in Scandinavia) has once again designed a delicious tour which this year […]
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. […]
