4th November 2021
Sirens is a debut full-length studio album by Israeli Blackened Dark/Doom/Gothic metal band Edellom. It’s been released almost two years ago via Metal Scrap Records’ sublabel Another Side Records, and it came as a follow-up […]
2nd November 2021
One of these releases I never expected to get released on a metal label like Metal Scrap Records?! At least, it was one of my initial thoughts prior to listening to the record. After two […]
29th October 2021
Since the release of their debut almost two decades ago it was clear that Mastodon is a band with massive potential, but unlike so many other bands, the Atlanta quartet managed to meet their potential […]
28th October 2021
Mysthicon are another extreme metal band from Poland, but this time not unfamiliar to our readers as we’ve presented the band in this interview done in 2020 with band’s guitarist Nigrum Amnis Silvam. For those […]
25th October 2021
Hegemon (the concept of having dominance over someone else) is, in this case, a French Black Metal quintet – One that has been around for twenty-five years as of writing. In that timespan they have […]
25th October 2021
Niels Ottink (Guitars/Vocals) was kind to send me a physical copy of his band’s latest eight-tracker opus entitled Eighty Years War (Dutch War of Independence). In other words, I somehow knew what to expect from […]
22nd October 2021
Despite several Dream Theater members’ side projects, it does make so much sense that the band was rather productive during the pandemic, writing and recording their fifteenth album, which is out today some two and […]
21st October 2021
Beastlurker are a relatively new three piece from Chicago, Illinois. The band consists of J. Geist (guitars), S. Boersma (bass) and M. Maggio (drums, voice, elegies). They’re a former members of underground death metal acts, […]
20th October 2021
Once again I have a pleasure of listening to a record released almost two years ago. What we have here is another extreme band from Poland. Unlike many of other Polish acts, my knowledge of […]
19th October 2021
Rüyyn is a French Black Metal one man act and one that, by any stretch of the definition, would be considered a new contestant onto the world stage. Springing into existance early this very year, […]
19th October 2021
Conquest Icon is not the most productive band on the planet, as it’s been now ten years since their debut Hellspire was released. For those of you who’re still unfamiliar with this band, I can […]
15th October 2021
In the last couple of years we’ve featured many extreme metal bands hailing from Poland. Here comes another one, Inhumanity Vortex! It is a death metal quintet from Bialystok, Poland. The band has been active […]
14th October 2021
Pazuzu hails from San José, Costa Rica. Judging by the cover artwork one can see that we are dealing here with a piece of unholy underground metal, released on a cassette by French label Nihilistic […]
13th October 2021
Fausttophel is an old-school black metal act, initially founded in 1999 in Ukraine. The group disbanded after two years as one member died in 2001. The band returned in 2009 but now based in Russia. […]
9th October 2021
A while ago I reviewed a Funeral Doom act (Solemn Echoes I believe, but memory seems to fail me at the moment) who had borrowed a very talented singer to provide female vocals on one […]
17th June 2023
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 […]
17th June 2023
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 […]
16th June 2023
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 […]
16th June 2023
Archive photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmescalero.com Pantera is basically the most demanded heavy metal festival booking this year, but is it even Pantera? Let’s answer that in the conclusion of this review. Twenty years since […]
16th June 2023
Photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmescalero.com Celebrating three decades since the release of their pivotal debut River Runs Red, Life Of Agony are back at Copenhell where they played in 2015 on the very same stage. […]
16th June 2023
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, […]
16th June 2023
Fathom (verb) 1. to understand (a difficult problem or an enigmatic person) after much thought 2. to measure the depth of (water) Inside personal discourses of metal’s status quo, the old age metalhead mantra of […]
16th June 2023
Photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmescalero.com Halestorm played Copenhell two years ago, well two festivals ago, which was in 2019. We all know what happened in 2020 and 2021. So it feels sort of as if […]
15th June 2023
Archive photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmescalero.com (Photographers were banned from Mötley Crüe Copenhell show) Over the course of their career, Mötley Crüe have released plenty of good music and even more of the forgettable music. […]
15th June 2023
Photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmescalero.com At last year’s Copenhell we got ourselves a NYC hardcore treat in form of Agnostic Front. This year we were blessed by company of another NYC hardcore legends – Sick […]
