24th October 2024
Initially released independently in 2020, Ziemie Jałowe (translates to ‘Barren Lands’) is the first EP by the Polish unholy trio from Zmarłym. Ziemie Jałowe got re-released by Godz Ov War Productions, the same label that […]
23rd October 2024
It’s not often we feature metal bands from Asia. Today we make an exception with a proming young band that won ‘Wacken Metal Battle India 2022’, and represented India at ‘Wacken Open Air 2022’. The […]
17th October 2024
1000mods have over the years become an established underground Stoner Rock/Metal name in Europe, with especially their last couple of albums resonating with a somewhat broader audience, earning them spots at some major festivals. Their previous […]
16th October 2024
Sordide is a French Black Metal trioe that has recently pierced the veil into their second decade of existance, gracing the world with five Full-length records since their inception back in 2013. These were released […]
16th October 2024
Heavy metal bands from the early 70s (Black Sabbath) to nowadays’ numerous, death metal acts in particular, have always had this fascination for a horror and gore movies. Here’s also where Fulci comes in, named […]
15th October 2024
Bay Area thrash/death metal quartet Laceration have launched their sophomore full-length entitled I Erode. It comes three years after the release of their debut LP, Demise from 2021. Despite of the fact that this is […]
8th October 2024
For a while now Greek Metal scene, and Prog Metal in particular, has been, a very vibrant with lots of new interesting bands emerging. Some of them also managed to establish themselves amongst the most […]
8th October 2024
Omhuldra is the new album from Tusenårseken (The Thousand Year Oak), a solo project from Sweden, which we have presented on these pages (2023) when Andreas Karlsson (responsible for all the instruments and vocals) released […]
7th October 2024
Special thanks to the Catholic Church in Poland for being an endless source of fucking badass lyrical inspiration for many of the country’s extreme metal bands, as Polish extreme metal has a tradition of attacking […]
3rd October 2024
Rising from the ashes of the past, Danish black metal veterans Horned Almighty return with their seventh studio album entitled Contagion Zero. It has been released via Soulseller Records in the middle of the summer, […]
1st October 2024
It’s always a difficult task to review a material received from an artists that is very limited information about. From my limited search I learned that Vergeblichkeit is one-man project from Upper Austria. A man […]
30th September 2024
Spectral Voice are a death-doom quartet from Colorado made up of three out of the four members of Blood Incantation. They’re joined by Eli Wendler of Black Curse on vocals & drums. Thus the current […]
27th September 2024
Last year I had the distinct pleasure of getting to review the debut EP of Polist Post-Black Metal duo Zørza. Looking back at what I wrote at the time, I seem to have had nothing […]
25th September 2024
What do you get if you merge the old-fashioned aggression of American Death Metal act Nunslaughter with the repentless, incessant drums of equally American Black Metal act Grand Belial’s Key? In this modern day and […]
25th September 2024
Grave Heresy is a Death/Black Metal quartet hailing from an at time of writing unknown part of Sweden – Likewise, I have so far been unable to determine exactly when the band was formed. What […]
9th December 2024
Belgian quartet Tim’s Favourite have been active for more than 25 years, where they released their debut back in 2003 entitled, Noises from the Dark Room. Six years later their sophomore full-length Geometry for the […]
2nd December 2024
What’s the point of releasing live albums anno 2024? Taking into the consideration that there is an amateur recording of just about any live performance on YouTube, which despite dreadful quality perhaps does serve as […]
2nd December 2024
Dyscordia are a Belgian (Kortrijk-based) melodic heavy metal band featuring veteran musicians who have played with Gwyllion, Double Diamond, Artrach, and others. Current band line-up consists of; Piet Overstijns (vocals), Stefan Segers (vocals & guitars), […]
28th November 2024
Archive photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com Three decades have passed since Therapy? released their landmark breakthrough album Troublegum and, as the case is with so many other bands these days, the occasion is being marked on the […]
28th November 2024
Self-released, and distibuted by Bad Dog Promotions, A Game of Whispers is is debut full-length album by Age of Distraction. A natural question that arises now; who are Age of Distraction? It’s a relatively new […]
27th November 2024
Fabulae Dramatis is a female-led progressive metal quartet hailing from Belgium. The band consists of Isabel Restrepo (vocals), Daniel Diaz (guitars), Teo Dimitrov (drums) and Marco Felix (bass). A proper band that has released two […]
26th November 2024
Morgue (not to be confused with Morgue – a death metal band from Dijon, or Morg – a death metal from Nice) is a death metal powerhouse hailing from France. The horde was founded in […]
25th November 2024
Desires Profane is the first full length album by Sweden’s ‘avenging witches of black metal’, going under the moniker of Völva. The powerful trio behind Völva (In Norse mythology the seeress is usually referred to […]
22nd November 2024
Sometimes it’s just killer album art that knocks me over the edge to give an album a try. A sword thrust in the bleeding sky did the trick. More important, the band describing their influences. […]
21st November 2024
Withdraw is the name of a solo project that a Viennese multi-instrumentalist has been pursuing since 2021. Now comes the most interesting part; nine full-length since 2021?! No, it’s not a mistake, it’s an actual […]
