Dunwich is a sludge & stoner metal quintet from Calais in France. Not to be confused with the Italian, Russian and Canadian bands with the same moniker! This French five-piece was founded at the end […]
My friend and partner Gabriel S. from Nihilistic Holocaust sent me another album for review. This time it is Diseased Oblivion from US, and their A Blackened Harvest of Decomposure album. There’re eight tracks and […]
This particular Split album is, as the name aptly suggests, a near-even split between two French Black Metal acts with similar enough soundscapes for it to make sense that they are present upon the same […]
I was not really sure of publishing this review as it has very little in connection to heavy metal. On the other hand one can occasionally hear some of gothic doomy influences which I believe […]
More than a decade and a half have passed since the previous solo studio album from former Black Sabbath singer Tony Martin, but already a minute into “As the World Burns” the album opener, it’s […]
One thing that is certain when a new Dèhá release drop in through your mail box is that you are never quite sure what it is you are receiving. Since the Belgium-based musician first started […]
Dead Ficus is a melo-death metal band formed in 2006 in Strasbourg, France. The band consists of six lone-time friends, namely; Sébastien (vocals), Arnaud (guitars), Olivier (guitars), Lucien (bass), Karim (drums) and Laurence (keyboards). In […]
Mika Sundvall from Thyrargo sent me band’s first EP entitled Impulses for review. Before going more into this four-tracker EP here comes a short introduction to this band from Helsinki, Finland. Apart from Mika Sundvall […]
I + Live At Roadburn is a rather unique, but honestly quite logical, approach to a live album – Instead of merely releasing an album with effectively the soundtrack found at any given festival or […]
No wonder if you’ve heard the name Rimthurs before, as the band/project started in the mid-nineties, but wasn’t very productive until 2001 and 2002. For those of you still not familiar with Rimthurs, I can […]
Rise To The Sky is one of those pleasant surprises that pops up every now and again – A band just up my alley that is well-established, talented, with a clear concept and overall approach […]
Au-Dessus, the Lithuanian Post-Black metal quartet is a band that I am always getting one of my, by now, numerous eyes on. Granted, they are not the most productive of artists as far as amounts […]
Godz Ov War Productions from Poland never disappoints! This time they’ve released a very powerful and stunning new album from a French duo going under the moniker of Corrupter. Descent Into Madness is their full-length […]
I’m almost ashamed that I didn’t get familiar with this progressive trio from Poland before! For some reason I never got familiar with their sound before, even though What if… is actually their seventh full-length […]
Sign Of Death is a relatively new band to emerge from Ladenburg, Germany. They were originally formed in in the beginning of 2019, but it is after the arrival of the new drummer in the […]
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 […]
Photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmescalero.com Since releasing their debut album Opus Eponymous in 2010 it has only gone one way for Tobias Forge’s project – and that’s up. The band has in a record time […]
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 […]
Archive photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmescalero.com There is so much that can be said about one of the biggest musical acts in the world, but not much of it was never said before. Therefore, let’s […]
Photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmescalero.com Spiritbox is a Canadian band formed some five years ago by two former Iwrestledabearonce members, guitarist Mike Stringer and vocalist Courtney LaPlante. They’ve released a few EPs and quickly gained […]
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 […]
Photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmescalero.com Ever since ultimately inventing the grindcore genre almost 4 decades ago, Napalm Death have inspired countless bands and genres which have in one way or the other risen out of […]
Photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmescalero.com Perhaps because of the respect that truly yours has for Annihilator’s main man Jeff Waters, whenever the time comes to experience Gojira live, Waters’ words from the interview we conducted […]