Ob Nixilis (its name comes from a popular character from the trading card game Magic: The Gathering) is blackened-death metal act hailing from Colorado Springs, USA. The band, that has been active since 2020, consists […]
In 2019 Hypno5e followed up their eminent , mostly acoustic album Alba – Les Ombres Errantes, with A Distant (Dark) Source, which saw them return to their more familiar sound. But most noticeably with it […]
Dosgamos is an Italian quartet hailing from the city of Parma, officially formed in 2018. The band consists of Michele Altavilla (Vocals), Vincenzo Moramarco (Guitars), Giulio Garibaldi (Bass) and Giuseppe D’Avola (Drums). This relatively young […]
Svar (an answer in Danish?!) is one-man solo project from Krakow, Poland. The only man handling all the instruments and vocals is Kamil Bolesta. Under a Sky Full of Thunder is his latest release, a […]
Finnish band Anzillu (its moniker is inspired by the ancient Sumerian word for ‘abomination’) has risen from the ashes of Inkvisitor, who released an EP and two full-lengths between 2014-2018. Anzillu, founded in 2019, consists […]
Although released a year and half ago it’s first now that I have the opportunity to listen and review this live album by a Hanover-based (Germany) band Ember Sea. It’s not utterly my fault this […]
A couple of weeks ago I had a tremendous pleasure to review Venom’s To Hell And Back – 8-tape box. Now, the guys from Darkness Shall Rise Productions, provided me with Destruction’s strictly limited tape […]
There is something about vocals in music that gives it a whole another dimension. They are more than just another instrument and absence of vocals, for the most part, leaves a grander gap than absence […]
Last Legion is another hard-hitting combo from neighbouring Malmö, Sweden. The band has been around since 2009, but it’s first now that they release their debut album. The band consists of; Olle Olsson (vocals), Andreas […]
Vayron is a relatively new death metal formation from France. It features previous members of another French band called Silure. Their first four tracks demo tape is now released by Visceral Circuitry Records, is simply […]
An Evening With Knives is a post-metal trio from Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The band consists of; Peter van Grunsven (Bass guitar), Jarno van Osch (Drums & samples) and Marco Gelissen (Guitar & vocals). It all […]
Autophagy, aside of being the scientific description for an organism feeding upon or digesting itself, is also a US-based Death Metal quartet with – At the time of writing, five years worth of experience as […]
Moonthoth is one-man Black Metal project led by Nocturnal. The moniker for the band refers to the lunar deity Thot/Thoth. It emerged from the depths of murky, vast, Slavic forests of Poland. Actually, already in […]
For some reason I first saw this CD more than a half year since its release. Nevertheless, here follows my initial thoughts on Ascension, the second full-length album by Belgium black metal horde Serpents Oath. […]
I’m devastated by the fact that I didn’t check this release before, since it’s been released more than seven months ago. Better late than never, right? So, here comes a short review of Swedish black […]
Nunslaughter is, put quite simply, one of the original Death Metal acts and, as far as I can tell, one of the oldest still active as well. Tracing their origin back to the US in […]
Temple Of Dread is a German Death Metal trio with, so far, four Full-lengths under their belt spread over the last six years. Throughout that time the line-up of the band has been surprisingly stable, […]
Photo: Zoran: www.sonic-shot.com How about that line-up for a Friday night? The concert was announced when Life Of Agony played Copenhagen last time in June at this year’s edition of Copenhell Festival. The show was […]
Throneum originally sprang into existance under the moniker Throne back in 1996 and carried that title up until the turn of the millenium. Apparently the name was changed by adding their current suffix due to […]
A couple of years ago Spanish duo TodoMal released their debut which introduced their rather interesting take on atmospheric doom. Using obvious doom inspirations like Candlemass and My Dying Bride and wrapping them comfortably in […]
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 […]