14th March 2018
The late 2010’s would appear to the the era for the French bands. The newest band from said country that I have been introduced to is the Hardcore quintet Wolfpack who, despite being formed deep […]
12th March 2018
Negative Self is a Swedish Heavy metal comet, for a lack of a better comparison. Despite having been active for a ‘mere’ three years (counting from their first ever release), their low-tuned yet energetic style […]
12th March 2018
With almost five decades of creating music behind them Judas Priest are not only a household name, but at the same time of the bands that helped create and define the genre of heavy metal. […]
12th March 2018
Road To Jerusalem is an international hard rock group based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Official formation of the band was in late Fall of 2016 when Per Møller Jensen (The Haunted, Invocator, Konkhra etc.) joined forces […]
9th March 2018
The Golden Grass is something that I have next to no prior experience with, and as such is a band that I had an excessively hard time labelling and wrapping my very rigid mind around. […]
8th March 2018
Sophomore release by the Italian band This Broken Machine is a logical next step for the band. But building further on their 2012 debut The Inhuman Use Of Human Beings, also sees the band expanding […]
7th March 2018
Formed in 2005 in Salo (Finland), Abhordium is a blackened/death metal quintet. Omega Prayer is their sophomore 9-tracker album, a follow-up to their 2011 debut When Depravity Incarnates. From the very beginning of their musical […]
4th March 2018
Polish metal and rock scene has most certainly experienced somewhat of a creative explosion in course of a last decade or so. It seems like the rise of internet has helped the unfolding of massive […]
4th March 2018
The Crimson is the debut release by Canadian doom metal quintet Die Some More. The four songs on this EP are all riff-based doom tunes inspired by the likes of Black Sabbath and My Dying […]
4th March 2018
Lectern is an Italian Death Metal quartet, one that has been around since the end of the nineties. In that time, the band has released numerous releases, among them their second full-length album: Precept of […]
1st March 2018
The Mutual Admiration Society is a new album from Sterling Ball, John Ferraro and Jim Cox. It is also featuring guitar greats Steve Vai, John Petrucci, Steve Morse, Albert Lee, Steve Lukather and Jay Graydon. […]
27th February 2018
My first encounter with Painted Black came 2014 via Sleeping Pulse, a side project from Mick Moss of Antimatter, which was created in collaboration with Painted Black’s guitarist Luis Fazendeiro. The album, Under the Same […]
26th February 2018
I think I have admitted to having a weakness to the French Black Metal scene at some point in the past – Particularly in regards to the Atmospheric sub-version of said genre. Luckily for me, […]
22nd February 2018
Dutch new-comers Dauthuz is an old-school Death Metal quintet, and one who did their homework quite extensively. At first glance, their debut full-length album Destined for Death, could easily have fooled me into believing that […]
21st February 2018
An album that was released almost 3 years ago just recently landed on my doorstep for a review? Anyway, I have to do what I have to do, and I start with a short introduction […]
23rd March 2021
Founded in 2008, Social Scream is a heavy metal band from Sparta (Greece). The band released their debut album Epiclesis in June 2014. Two years and a few shows after the band’s second album called […]
22nd March 2021
Wesenwille is a Dutch Black Metal duet, one that has been active for the last eight years. Since their inception in the year 2013 they have so far released two Full-length albums – A self-titled […]
22nd March 2021
Hailing from Portuguese grounds, Summon is a quartet performing their own mix of black & death metal. This Portuguese quartet is formed in 2016, and Helios is their second EP, arriving three years after its […]
19th March 2021
Tomahawk arose as one of numerous projects Mike Patton kicked off after Faith No More dismembered two decades ago. Out of the endless line of projects he ventured into, Tomahawk is the one that leaned […]
10th March 2021
Dear readers and black metal metal worshippers, due to the absence of any biographical details online, allow me to introduce you to Kommando Baphomet, a two-piece Black/Death act from Lisbon, Portugal. Blood Gospels Of Satanic […]
9th March 2021
In 2017 new progressive metal band released their debut. Well it was a new band, but it consisted of people associated with Iced Earth, Circe II Circle and White Wizzard, so as such this was […]
3rd March 2021
Looking at the cover artwork of Sunnata’s fourth album, there is an undeniable beauty to it as there is a certain grim unease. There is also something grand to it, yet at the same time […]
1st March 2021
Less than a year has passed since the release of their latest album, How We Want To Live? the German instrumental band has just released a six-song EP, whose main characteristics are more focus and […]
1st March 2021
Rotting Kingdom is a Death/Doom Metal quintet from Lexington, Kentucky. With only one self-titled demo/EP prior to their name, the band have released their debut full-length entitled A Deeper Shade Of Sorrow. The album, released […]
26th February 2021
Moonspell have always been a band that was distinctively evolving throughout their almost three-decade long career and were never shy for experimenting. Through it all they managed to maintain the quality of their releases rather […]
