23rd October 2018
Eleven years ago five Finnish musicians banded together to form a band, one hell-bent upon joining the already rising Second Wave Black Metal scene. They did so the following year by releasing their first EP, […]
23rd October 2018
Of course, it’s a marketing move, when you hype your new album as “Our ‘Black Album’”, but there is so much nonsense in such a statement even before actually hearing the album. Nevertheless, Disturbed chose […]
23rd October 2018
Tales of Hate, Lust And Chaos is the new album of Peruvian (!) death ‘n’ roll project called Fervent Hate. Tales of Hate, Lust And Chaos consists of 10 very strong tracks that show the […]
20th October 2018
Helsótt, despite the very Old Norse word (meaning ‘fatal illness’ in case any of you out there either are a fan of viking history or collect random trivia) is in actuality an American quintet, founded […]
19th October 2018
Satanath is quite a peculiar band, to say the least. First of all, both the name of the one-man band (Satanath) as well as the name of every single one of the twenty tracks present […]
16th October 2018
Riven is a Belgian-based one-man band known for two other projects: Namely Svarthart (a Doom/Death Metal mix) and Verderf (Death Metal). Riven, his by default solo project, explores a darker, more powerfully down-trodden path than […]
9th October 2018
With their previous album, the 2014 opus The Satanist, Behemoth have not only created the highlight of their career, but at the same time showed the strength of broadening the horizons of the genre, whilst […]
9th October 2018
It often feels like power metal genre is the genre that has evolved least since its heyday in the 80’s. Sure, the likes of Ghost are taking the music and the whole concept in distinctive […]
3rd October 2018
Forgive me for generalizing and being somewhat blunt when describing this upcoming Split Album – It is not because it is a particularly bad album, nor by any means generic – In fact, I quite […]
2nd October 2018
Wrathrone is a death metal band swarming from the gutters of Laitila, Finland. They’ve been around for 10 years now, and this year they strike hard with their sophomore album fittingly entitled Reflections Of Torment. […]
28th September 2018
Much has been said about sudden passing of Riverside’s founding member and guitarist Piotr Grudziński and for a while it seemed that the band, too, has come to an end. Fortunately, the band decided to […]
27th September 2018
18 months since mighty Sittin’ Heavy came out, and Canadian ( from Hamilton, ON) rockers Monster Truck are already ready with a new album entitled True Rockers. The album consists of 11 tracks that are […]
26th September 2018
Vcid (alternative spelling for ’Void’, no doubt inspired by their interesting logo) is something as relatively rare and fresh as a Black N’ Roll act – That is to say, a band that specializes in […]
25th September 2018
Formed out of the ashes of several prominent local death metal bands (Suture, Catholicon, Despondency) Excommunicated is a Louisiana-based old school death metal quintet. The band is a potent cohesion of the various influences and […]
25th September 2018
Since forming in 1982 the Canadian band quickly become a band that never really could be compared with anyone else out there. Their unique fusion of trash, progressive rock and punk was unlike anything else […]
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 […]
