Advent Varic is an American Blackened Stoner Metal trio, one which I am a bit unsure about just how long they have been active. What I do know however, is the fact that Tumulus Part […]
No wonder if you’re yet not familiar with Undead Prophecies as they are a relatively newly formed quintet from France. Recently they released their 9-tracker album entitled Sempiternal Void through French Listenable Records. What you […]
Griffon and Darkenhöld, despite being from different parts of France, have quite a few similarities between them. The most obvious of which (aside of their shared love of Black Metal, the genre they both utilize), […]
Based around three former members of Spellcaster, the new Portland-based band delivers somewhat of a surprising debut. Unlike the far heavier approach of Spellcaster, Unto Others (formerly known as Idle Hands) looks the opposite direction […]
Lucide, despite being the name of the Cepheide half of this Split release, is actually a collaboration between two fairly new, but very talented Frenchm shall we say, ‘minimalist’ bands – This is in the […]
Mormânt De Snagov is a Finnish Black Metal quartet that has been active since 2008. In that time, they have produced a significant amount of musical material, culminating in their third Full-length album early last […]
Five years have passed since the release of Band Religion’s previous album True North and since then the band’s drummer Brooks Wackerman has left the band in order to join Avenged Sevenfold. He has been […]
A Skáld is an old Scandinavian and Icelandic poet, performer and singer dating back to the Viking Age and early Middle Ages, performing at the court of chieftains and kings alike. As such, they often […]
Back in 2010 another supergroup emerged. Consisting of members from Anthrax, Every Time I Die, and Fall Out Boy, the somewhat unlikely union delivered on a hell of a debut in the form of Ironiclast […]
Sworn Enemy is a US-based Hardcore quintet, originally founded back in 1997 in New York under the name Mindset. Two years later, they changed their name (but not their tune) to the one their use […]
The most media attention Scottish band Holocaust received during the course of their over four decades long career was Metallica covered their “The Small Hours” on the 1987 EP The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited. […]
Necandi Homines is an Italian quartet that has specialized in an sound that is excessively slow, simple and somewhat laden with detached melancholy. Not something I would claim is easy to do, yet Black Hole, […]
Present Days, Future Days might be IX – The Hermit’s debut, but band’s members have released numerous releases as part of other bands. This is quite evident after one spin of the album, because band’s […]
Brahdr’uhz is a Swiss one-man band, one that seems to be on a mission: To bring back the original, raw Black Metal sound as it was back in the early nineties. He seems almost single-mindedly […]
Seventh Genocide is an Italian Black Metal quartet with thirteen years of experience as a band. In that time, they have released two full-length albums, two Demos, two EP’s (of which SVNTH is one) and […]
Archvile King represents numerous approaches and clichés to the music I like, which is no doubt why I have taken quite a liking to the band: It is a solo act, with one very talented […]
Jarun is another band hailing from Poland, that I wasn’t familiar prior to listening to their latest record. Before we go further into this new album, I’ll just briefly mention that Jarun was founded already […]
Shrine Ov Absurd is one man band hailing from Cuba. It’s not very often that we review one man artists and even less if they’re from Cuba. A person behind Shrine Ov Absurd is the […]
When I first looked at the cover-artwork and the title The Void, I was convinced that I’m gonna hear some depressive or blackened doom metal. Thus, I got very surprised when the first riff of […]
Donikąd (English; To Nowhere)is a title for a debut full-length from Polish band Angrrsth. It arrives two and half years after their great debut EP entitled Znikąd (From Nowhere). It’s been released through their fellow […]
I’m sorry that I was not able to review this material earlier, as it is released back in 2020. On the other hand, I guess it’s never too late to discover new music, and tell […]
Lunar Tombfields, on paper, is already shaping up to being a very interesting band. The name of the band, Lunar Tombfields, is taken from a song found on the critically acclaimed first EP of German […]
In 2016, a Helsinki based quintet Demonztrator was founded. They started as a cover band, and their 2017 first full length album Forgotten Acts Of Aggression saw them interpreting some Finnish metal classics. Meanwhile, they […]
After four years of relative silence, Polish death & doom metal band Death Has Spoken are back with their sophomore album entitled Call of the Abyss. For you still unfamiliar with the band, Death Has […]
It’s first time that the extreme metal label Grind To Death Records, located in Malmö (Sweden) sent me some promo materials for review. The label is primary focusing on Nordic extreme music, from grindcore to […]