8th February 2019
Aornos is a Hungarian One-man Black Metal act that was founded five years ago. Since that time, Algras (which is the name of the artist behind the band) has made a point out of releasing […]
5th February 2019
It’s not very often that we have the opportunity to listen to a death metal from the island of Cyprus, so I was quite exited prior to listening of this album. Pure Eternal Hate is […]
28th January 2019
Hardly two years since the release of masterpiece The Night Siren, former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett is ready with the follow-up. At The Edge Of Light sees the 68-year-old guitar legend dial down on the […]
28th January 2019
Grimorium Verum is a Russian Symphonic Black Metal trio which rose to prominence following closely behind the creation of Dimmu Borgir – A Norwegian Symphonic Black Metal band, that Grimorium Verum closely resembles in several […]
22nd January 2019
What the fuck is this? Bassists from Anthrax and Megadeth released a record? Is it a recording from one of their bass clinics? Not only, it’s not a bass clinic recording, but it’s a collection […]
22nd January 2019
If there is one thing that I have learned in the last year it is that you never quite know what exactly will play through your speakers when you put on a record publiced by […]
14th January 2019
Aetranok, to me, represents what seems to be a rise in popularity for Second Wave Black Metal in the US. Since the beginning of the 2010’s, I have seen a fair amount of such bands […]
8th January 2019
A couple of years since the release of Metal Church’s “return” album unimaginably titled XI, the Californian Metallers are back with the follow-up Damned If You Do. Calling XI, return-album might be somewhat misleading, because […]
25th December 2018
Cascadian Black Metal, as I have heard quite a few bands being referenced as these days, seems to be a genre growing exponentially faster and faster as time progresses – And, seeing as it is […]
19th December 2018
Pensees Nocturnes is, without a doubt, one of the most peculiar mixtures of genres and themes that I have come across all year (which, coming in at the end of said year, is saying something). […]
13th December 2018
Chaotic Matrix is official re-release of the second full-length album by the legendary Colombian most well-known death metal outfit, Internal Suffering. Infernal Suffering has four full-length albums in its discography and each drastically different from […]
28th November 2018
Myrd has recently released their third full-length album – Negativisme (Danish for ‘negativism’) which, this time around, is a collaboration between the lead singer (as far as I can tell, the only remaining member of […]
28th November 2018
Few things in life are certain. One has to be that Sigh will surprise you with each new record, and another one that each next Sigh album will not disappoint. Heir to Despair is the […]
27th November 2018
Slegest is a Norwegian band playing an addictive blend of black metal and classic heavy rock. Recently they unveiled their new album, entitled Introvert (a person who is predominantly interested in their own inner experiences). […]
26th November 2018
For some reason, it doesn’t seem like P.O.D. have been around for more than a quarter of a century, but nevertheless that is the case and Circles marks their tenth album. The new album is […]
10th June 2022
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 […]
6th June 2022
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 […]
26th May 2022
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 […]
25th May 2022
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 […]
24th May 2022
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 […]
24th May 2022
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 […]
24th May 2022
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 […]
19th May 2022
One thing that is certain when a new Dèhá release drop in through your mail box is that you are never quite sure what it is you are receiving. Since the Belgium-based musician first started […]
17th May 2022
Dead Ficus is a melo-death metal band formed in 2006 in Strasbourg, France. The band consists of six lone-time friends, namely; Sébastien (vocals), Arnaud (guitars), Olivier (guitars), Lucien (bass), Karim (drums) and Laurence (keyboards). In […]
16th May 2022
Mika Sundvall from Thyrargo sent me band’s first EP entitled Impulses for review. Before going more into this four-tracker EP here comes a short introduction to this band from Helsinki, Finland. Apart from Mika Sundvall […]
