It’s hard to find authentic bands nowadays. There are many killer acts, but authenticity (or lack of it?!) is always a key element. Yet creating new music that way is almost imposible, even when you […]
Hyrgal is a French Black Metal trio, one that I have had the pleasure of reviewing a few times over the years. While they are perhaps not the most active band in the world as […]
Restless Oblivion is a Russian Doom/Gothic Metal band containing five members at present. They have been active as a band since 2009 – In those 11 years they have so far released one Full-length record […]
Glaukom Synod is an extreme industrial death metal from France that we’ve featured in on these pages before. It’s a piece of old-school industrial/death metal with experimental influnces. Ectoplasmic Revelations is a material released almost […]
Almost four years have passed since the release of this Spanish trio’s debut album, the impressive 2017’s Spectral Ascent and Carmen, Marga and Alba are now ready to follow it up with perhaps bit too […]
Edenian is a female-fronted Ukranian Gothic/Doom Metal sextet, one that has been active on the global music scene for the last decade, the last eight years of which under their current moniker (originally they performed […]
Shattered Hope is a Greek Death Metal-inspired Funeral Doom quintet, not unlike their Swedish counterpart, Doom:VS, who was founded about the same time. By the numbers however, Shattered Hope came first, first seeing the light […]
Nergard is a Power Metal all-star band, one that primarily focuses around one particular musician (namely Andreas Nergård), who has then strived to band together similar like-minded individuals, both from his native Norway and more […]
This review will be relatively short as I’m not sure why I received this CD for a review eight years after its release?! Nevertheless, here follows a short introduction to the band. Acid Death is […]
Darkenhöld is, aside from being a band that I have had the pleasure of reviewing several times since my employment here at Metal Revolution, a very solid band. In the last twelve years since their […]
After a rather turbulent period which among others, saw the founding member Malcolm Young pass away, Guns N’ Roses singer W. Axl Rose take away on vocals for several shows due to singer Brian Johnson’s […]
Spectrale is a French (mostly) acoustic Folk band with a heavily ambient and atmospheric approach, not entirely unlike what one would expect to find on a Heilung record – Clean, female vocals, spanish guitars, drums […]
Grindcore/deathgrind/goregrind/brutal death is exactly what I need to get me started again after a long delay. Bloodfiend is the name of this project from Chile. This project took the style and shape already in 2001, […]
Back in the very beginning of the ’90s denim vests with band patches became the lamest thing ever, basically from day to day, but as with everything else, a couple of decades later they made […]
I need to tell you guys that this is an album I (personally) have been waiting and looking forward to for a long time. Very much because these guys are the future of Danish metal, […]
Ontario, Canada-based CDN Records, who has specialized in releasing extreme, mainly death metal, records sent me some of their latest releases for review purposes. One of these is the re-issue of Blood Of Christ’s 1995 […]
Grava is is a metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark and today is the official vinyl release of their debut full-length entitled The Weight of a God via their fellow Danish label Vinyltroll Records. At the […]
No matter what you think of Metallica few things about them are undeniable; they were driving force behind foundation of thrash metal in the early 80’s, they took a bold step which took metal to […]
Last year the project, which came about during the pandemic and basically as a result of it, released their debut album. MMXX is based around former Foreshadowing member Andrea Chiodetti on guitars/keyboards and rhythm section […]
Senshi are Serbian in origin, but they describe themselves as a band that plays “… a unique blend of ragga metal fused with traditional Japanese instruments”. I’m picturing Benji Webbe eating goulash in a kimono […]
Much like the majority of thrash metal bands who shaped the genre in the 80’s, Overkill has been enjoying the genre’s revival, which occurred some 15 years ago. The return of the genre in the […]
At the end of 2019 the former God Dethroned bassist Bert “Beef” Hoving brought an idea to form a new band. He contacted some members from previous projects, and Written In Blood was founded later […]
In the last couple of months I had a tremendous pleasure to review tape box releases from Venom, Destruction and Katatonia. Now, Denny and the rest of guys from Darkness Shall Rise Productions, provided me […]
2020 was a crucial year for Sao Paulo’s Outlaw. Three years ago, these guys managed to follow up an attention-grabbing debut with a solid, feet-planting sophomore effort that helped them firmly distance themselves musically from […]
This album is following up from 2020’s Inter Vivos; a rather odd, power-metal driven album with a sprinkle of Death Metal, tonnes of melody, a hefty dose of synth and electronica, and even a nice […]