The third album by the Abrahma marks, not only, the longest it has passed since the release of the band’s full-length releases, but also marks major personnel changes. In The Time For Last Rays Of […]
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 […]
Kadaverreich is a Russian-based Doom Metal act, one that as of time of writing seems to have three years of experience under their collective belt, not counting the excessive amount of time each of the […]
More than five years have passed since the release of the sophomore album by French thrash/groove metal band Heart Attack, the rather strong and promising The Resilience. It was an album that, like many others […]
German death metal veterans Purgatory have been releasing music for three decades now. The band’ line-up is; Dreier (vocals), René Kögel (guitars & vocals), Wolfgang Rothbauer (guitars), Nico Solle (bass) and Lutz Götzold (drums). Apotheosis […]
Here we are ten years ago almost to the day since the release of Phantom Antichrist, the album that brought the German thrash metal legends back to the spotlight, thanks to the rise of thrash […]
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 […]
Photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com Prog metal giants in Dream Theater were somewhat lucky with the timing of the release of their previous album Distance Over Time, which came out in early 2019, meaning that the band […]
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 […]