LA’s death metal army Kommand released their second full-length, a six-tracker entitled Death Age earlier this year. It’s just recently that it landed at my dorstep, but it should not prevent me from giving it […]
Ceremonies, we’ve all sojourned the experience. Decrees in harmony and valedictions to the lost. All of us have been bound together by an infinite unity, where all of our stationed emotions inevitably become fugitive to […]
Oïkoumen which is a metal band from Paris, France founded in 2017. The band was founded in 2017 by Elie Veux (guitars & composition) and Laura Mazard (vocals & lyrics). Then Yael Febvray joined in […]
Misanthropik Torment is a solo project of Erik Leviathan who’s responsible for all music, vocals, lyrics etc. He’s based in Lexington, Kentucky and The Leviathan is his six-tracker EP released in 2021 on his own […]
Vredensdal (translates to ‘Valley of Wrath’ in Danish) is a black metal trio founded in 2018 by Goblin Reaper in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Current line-up is like this; Goblin Reaper (guitar & vocals), Myrvandrer (bass) […]
Old Forest is an unholy trio from United Kingdom. The original line-up of the band consists of Kobold (ethereal synths & chants), Beleth (guitars & bass) and Grond (drums). A few months ago they released […]
I was absent for a month due to my summer vacation, but as soon as I came back home, I noticed that the brand-new Deicide 4-Tape Box has arrived. It’s sent to me by Denny […]
Heaving Earth is a Czech Death Metal quartet that, unsurprisingly since they have taken their band name from a popular Morbid Angel song, strives to keep the old school approach to the genre alive and […]
The 2021 debut by German heavy metal outfit The Night Eternal came out in that pandemic vacuum, and it was one of those albums that really stood out in the somewhat clogged genre, without it […]
Vadak the previous album by Hungarian Thy Catafalque saw the band’s only principal member Tamás Kátai created one of his most ambitious albums and certainly one of the strongest albums of the band’s career. With […]
I remember writing a review of Lumsk’ previous album Det Vilde Kor while our webzine was on another platform. It was 16 years ago, since the release of Det Vilde Kor. This Norwegian progressive/neo folk-inflected/Viking/psychedelic/metal […]
I’m pretty sure Nargathrond is one of those creatures from Lord of the Rings that I vaguely know the name of and I’m fairly certain he doesn’t moonlight as a DJ, whatever his day-job. So, […]
You can’t get more underground than this new CD by Psychopathologist & Crepitation. Actually, there’s none information on any of the two bands to be found on internet. What I can understand from this Cardboard […]
Oldskull is a death metal quintet from the south of France that plays their style of metal in the old-school way. The band consists of Herve (drums), Yan (bass), Manu (guitars), Nico (guitars) and Seb […]
After their The Crypt of Time album, which we’ve reviewed last year, this trio is still busy and are now following up with a new release. But, before we go further into this new release, […]
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 […]
Dark Horizon is an as-of-yet independent German Melodic Death/Black Metal quartet – One that was officially founded back in 2006 under the name Devastation, even if the name was altered to the above-described Dark Horizon […]
Miles2fall is still a relatively young band from Germany that was founded in 2021 by former members of Mindcrime and Groophe. After just two years of band’s existence, the full-length debut entitled Lower Skies, was […]
I’ve never heard of Margem Sul before. Initially, I assumed it was some sort of Lord of the Rings reference, but it turns out to be much closer to Lisbon than Mordor. It’s definitely in […]