In the course of their first four albums, Leprous have been moving in different directions, with the last two, especially, exploring a more commercial approach. On their fifth album, the shift in this direction is […]
Otherside by the Australian rockers My Dynamite was released in the beginning of 2016, however it is first recently that I received this CD for review. It comes after the eponymous debut in 2012. Many […]
When it comes to creating simple yet very intense and emotional pieces of music, few can rival those performances played on either the piano or the violin. These two monikers are some of the more […]
Here we go again; another ”supergroup”. With amount of these sorts of projects coming since the rise of digital music distribution its getting hard to get excited about most of them. But there are some […]
Wow, it doesn’t happened very often that I enjoy a progressive rock release as much as I did with Subterranean Masquerade’ Vagabond. First a few words on Subterranean Masquerade; it is an international and multi […]
I would stipulate that Conclusion Of An Age, in many ways, encapsulate the modern era. I mean this in both the specific sound of the band, which I have aptly heard described as Melodic Heavy […]
It’s three years almost to a day, since the release of Accept’s previous album Blind Rage and German metal legends are ready with a follow up, their fourth since Mark Tornillo replaced Udo Dirkschneider. But […]
Pungent Stench is anything if not experienced and travelled. The trio originally founded the band back in 1988 under the much longer title The Church of Pungent Stench, only to shorten it to Pungent Stench, […]
Red Hands Black Deeds is a sixth album (a career spanning over twenty years) from those five Jefferson City, Missouri rockers. It comes after a highly succesful predecessor Smokin’ Hearts & Broken Guns. The new […]
Since the shift to the electronic and more approachable music in the late 90’s and early 00’s, Paradise lost have slowly been getting back to their roots, culminating with 2015’s The Plague Within. If that […]
Task Force Beer is, as the same heavily implies, a band that does not take itself too seriously. It was founded two years ago by six like-minded Germans, all with extensive musical experience prior to […]
Ten years ago (I seem to get a lot of these recently – Imagine that) four Italian musicians with a strong desire to create Death Metal (yet another example of my stereotypical generalization being wrong) […]
Dawn of Winter is, in its most simple and literal sense, not a new release, but instead a re-release: Originally this album was released seven years prior and back then, it marked the first full-length album […]
Now, I am not a man that is too big to admit when I am wrong (my girlfriend disagrees with me on this, but that is another story), and this is relevant in this case […]
One prevalent thing that I have noticed about record labels these days I that more and more of them seem to have a target audience – More so than merely being a ‘Metal’ label, for […]
Originally the solo project of musician Dimon’s Night, Humanity Zero is a Greek death/doom metal band. The band has existed since 2008 and since then released five full-lengths and some demo releases. Thus, Proselytism is […]
Nyrst is an Icelandic quintet formerly known by the moniker Skuggsjá, before changing their name four years ago as they released their first Demo. Since then, the five band members have been digging deep into […]
King Witch are a heavy/doom quartet from Edinburgh, Scotland. It consists of Laura Donnelly (vocals), Jamie Gilchrist (guitars), Rory Lee (bass) and Lyle Brown (drums). King Witch rises from the ashes of Firebrand Super Rock […]
I got to admit that it feels a bit strange to review a material released exactly four years ago?! On the other hand it’s good to see if it still sounds any good from this […]
Slow and steady wins the race – Quite an old proverb, and one that Norwegian Doom Metallers Dwaal seems to have taken to heart. Quite aptly I might add, considering their affinity for a more […]
Bait is a German Post-Black Metal trio (which, as I have come to understand it, boils down to a Black Metal act infused with Hardcore elements, creating a more fast-paced and somewhat aggressive result). Almost […]
Grave Circles is a Ukranian Black Metal band with four consecutive years under its belt. In that time, they have so far released an EP entitled Tome I and, last month, their first Full-length album, […]
Thanatos are a death/thrash pioneers and the very first extreme metal band to come from The Netherlands. They are now celebrating 35 years of full death/thrash metal dedication and passion with the release of a […]
Eleven tracks. Nearly forty-five minutes of runtime. Such is the offering presented from US-based T.O.M.B as the calender drags into the year 2020, at the same time marking the Industrial Black Metal bands 22nd consecutive […]
I was unfamiliar with the existence of this Swedish band despite them coming from neighbouring Helsingborg. Chronus is a quartet that has been around for some years now. The band was founded in 2012 and […]