Thanatos are a death/thrash pioneers and the very first extreme metal band to come from The Netherlands. They are now celebrating 35 years of full death/thrash metal dedication and passion with the release of a […]
Eleven tracks. Nearly forty-five minutes of runtime. Such is the offering presented from US-based T.O.M.B as the calender drags into the year 2020, at the same time marking the Industrial Black Metal bands 22nd consecutive […]
I was unfamiliar with the existence of this Swedish band despite them coming from neighbouring Helsingborg. Chronus is a quartet that has been around for some years now. The band was founded in 2012 and […]
This album was recorded and released in 2018 but for some reason I first received it lately. It shall not prevent me of giving it a spin or two and see if it’s still of […]
Saturnalia Temple is a Swedish Doom Metal band that has spent the last fourteen years since their inception creating and releasing their own Stoner version of the genre, culminating in Gravity, their third-ever Full-length release […]
2017’s Medusa, saw the English Gothic Metal legends pull a full-circle, basically coming back to their very early ’90s Doom Metal roots. Following the band during the past three decades was an interesting ride. The […]
Just recently I received this album, released in November 2018, but it should not prevent me for giving it a couple of spins. First a few words about the band, one-man act named Feed Them […]
Misanthropic Rituals is an American one-man Black Metal band hailing From New Jersey, officially founded eight years ago (which would make it the year 2012 for all of you either not interested in counting or […]
Anointed In Darkness – Live in Europe is the newest release from these deathly masters from Atlanta, Georgia. The band was founded in 2006, playing brutal death metal ever since. This live album, entitled Anointed […]
Poccolus is a near-legendary Black Metal act hailing from Lithuania, one that was primarily active from 1993 to 1997. As such, they were a part of the Second Wave of Black Metal and helped shape […]
Four years ago, O’Brother released Endless Light, which was the absolute highlight of their career. Now the band is ready with a follow-up, which not only marks the departure from Triple Crown Records after a […]
In 2018 Katatonia announced that they were going on hiatus, but already in February 2019 the band returned to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2009 album, Night Is the New Day. And already here in […]
It seems ages ago that Trivium busted onto the scene with their breakthrough album, Ascendancy, but it has actually only been fifteen years since. Ever since, the band has been very productive and what seems […]
The progressive environment in Finland has done it again… They come up with bands from out of “nowhere” that just catches me. This time this is a band from Tampere in the middle of the […]
Back in 2018, the Finnish one-man band Kuolonkoura released their first (and, as it would turn out, only) EP under the title Infirmum. As far as I can tell, the and – And by extension, […]
Belgian-based quintet Nyrak is an Atmospheric Black Metal band in the vein of Sunken, Cepheide and Diadem Of Dead Stars in numerous ways aside from merely the fact that all three contribute to the same […]
French Modern Black Metal one-man project Jours Pâles has recently released their second full-length album (third if you count the singular albume released under their Asphodèle moniker – Which I do since the two bands […]
Deliverance is a French Sludged Black Metal quartet who can actually celebrate their ten year anniversary this year – As notably they have, by releasing their third full-length album Neon Chaos In A Junk-Sick Dawn […]
Formed back in 2011 in Athens (Greece), Achelous started as one-man project by Chris Achelous. Already in 2013 the band was formed, when ex-Reflection singer Chris Kappas joined the band. Currently the band is a […]
Interview with Nikolette Olsson (composer, singer, pianist) https://www.facebook.com/AfterEvolution/ During the weekend I had an interview scheduled for a talk with Nikolette Olsson, a composer, singer, pianist and founder of the Czech band, After Evolution. […]
Iron Flesh is a one man band born in early 2017. It’s founded by Julien Helwin (songwriter & lyricist) who, after the recording of Worship the Necrogod EP, decided to start playing live shows to […]
Founded in 2018, Bells and Ravens is a ambitious project of ex-Contracrash mastermind/multi-instrumentalist Mr. Matt Carviero. What Death Cannot End is his second solo record, featuring many special guests, among them are big names like […]
WitcheR is a Hungary-based duo, founded in 2010, that consists of a vocalist/guitarist Roland Neubauer and synths/keyboardist Karola Gere. Lélekharang (translates as ‘Soul Bell’) is their third full-length, containing six beautifully composed and arranged compositions. […]
Wesenwille is a Dutch Black Metal band that recently seems to have cut their numbers down to a single individual, namely the guitarist/vocalist who has taken on songwriting uties alongside picking up both a bass […]
A couple of weeks ago I received this 7″ single entitled Kakofoni. It’s a debut 7″ single released by the post-metal/post-hardcore/blackgaze project from Aalborg, Denmark – named Vægtløs. There are two songs of total duration […]