20th March 2018
Probably the best perk about this job is that every once in a while (fairly often actually, since I get my hands on quite a few releases) I stumble across a band that I, for […]
19th March 2018
Penthos is something as rare as an oldschool Death Metal act, of the sort that specializes in keeping their music dirty, gritty and riddled with aggression. As of the time of this writing, the band […]
19th March 2018
Sophomore album by Ukrainian band Somali Yacht Club is a ride that flows smoothly and seamlessly, but at the same time it’s a complex piece of work that reveals new aspects for every new spin […]
15th March 2018
The Edmonton, Kentucky-based quartet Black Stone Cherry has been around for 17 years and is now ready to unleash their sixth studio album entitled Family Tree. It arrives barely a year after the release of […]
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. […]
24th August 2021
Formed in 2014, Electric Haze is a four-piece Swedish band. The band consists of lead vocalist Anton Ekstrom, guitarist Tommy Toya, bassist Andre Ekstrom and drummer Yuppie Anderson. Soon after the formation of the band, […]
24th August 2021
Interview with Linus “Lee” Wester & Pontus “Evan” Hagberg https://symphonyofsweden.se/ It’s not often that we cover non-metal bands on these pages, but when it comes to Swedish pop rock band Symphony Of Sweden things get […]
12th August 2021
<code> are a very unique UK-based black metal quartet originally founded in 1998 as Seasonal Code, and since 2002 under this name. Flyblown Prince is fifth album from this legendary experimental extremists band. Flyblown Prince […]
11th August 2021
Not just this particular release, but many others too, have suffered from my latest absence. To try to get back on track I’ve picked this short EP from a German (North Rhine-Westphalia) quartet named Helltrail. […]
30th June 2021
Looking past black metal genre and its qualities, something exciting occurs when extreme metal (black, doom, death metal) artists venture into unrelated genres. Some artists such as Emptiness, Anathema and Manes have over the years […]
22nd June 2021
Sordide (which means ‘Filthy’ in French, as far as Google Translate tells me) is a Black Metal trio that proved to be somewhat difficult to dig up information about. Not as difficult as, say Istina […]
18th June 2021
The self-titled album by German power metal legends Helloween is perhaps the most anticipated metal release of 2021. And rightfully so. In order to understand the magnitude of this release, we’ll start off by trying […]
16th June 2021
Maldoror’s Metamorphosis is a debut album by a Spanish black metal duo going under the moniker, No Life Code. The band consists of J. Nefarious (multi-instrumentalist) and M. Berserk (vocalist), noth ‘well-known from Spanish underground […]
12th June 2021
Black Sun Brotherhood are the mighty maniacs hailin from Sarpsborg, Norway. At the end of 2020 this extreme metal band released their full-length debut entitled God & Beast. The album contains 11 tracks of pure, […]
9th June 2021
Traumasphere is, or should I say was, a death metal band from France. It’s has been formed as a duo between Ivan Sikic (vocals, guitars and bass) and Guillaume (drums and keyboards). After releasing their […]
