A band that I must admit caught be completely off guard. I had never even heard of Amnutseba prior to receiving this, their very first release. However, three words in my presentation to the band […]
Ultimate Destination MMXVII is, as the name implies to some extent, not a new release. Rather, it is a remixed, cleaned and re-issued version of the bands second full-length album, originally produced and set loose […]
Outta Door is a debut album by Finnish quartet Leaflet. At first I thought that Leaflet is a misleading and silly name for a rock/metal band, but after listening to their 11-tracker debut I was […]
Black Bleeding is an extreme metal quartet (now a trio!) founded in 1998 in the south of Belgium. After the release of 3 Demo releases in 1999, 2000 and 2002, the band split up, where […]
While the whole one-man-band has always, to some extent at least, been a thing, it does seem to have had a resurgence in recent days; Perhaps it is due to the ease of which one […]
Skyclad is a British heavy & folk metal band. The band started back in 1990 and is considered one of the very first folk-metal bands. They’ve recently released their thirteenth studio album entitled Forward Into […]
Cathedral of the Black Cult marks the second collaboration of the Croatian quintet collectively known as Black Cult. The band itself refers to this records as both ‘the past and future of Black Metal’. While […]
By now I do not believe that it is any secret that I jump at the chance of getting my hands on more or less any record with the tag ‘Black Metal’ attached to it. […]
At age of 47 Richie Kotzen has just released his 21st solo record. On top of that he has also released number of albums with the likes of The Winery Dogs, Mr. Big, Poison and […]
Five years ago four like-minded individuals came together in their native Belgium, hellbent upon forming their own band, apparently with the original intention of it having strong roots in both the Black annd Death Metal […]
Dunderbeist (a Norwegian word roughly translating into ”Noisy Beast”) is a Norwegian quintet of some fame: In fact, since their inception back in 2008 they have released a grand total of seven full-length album and […]
Comaniac (Company Of Maniacs) is a four-piece Swiss band. Comaniac are a part of the resurgence of Thrash that’s been happening for the past few years. Since its formation in 2012 the quartet have released […]
Most of the times when I hear an album that instantly reminds me of Machine Head’s Burn My Eyes, I get an urge to take a nap, because most of them are just a dull […]
Formed in 1990, Disbelief is a Groß-Umstadt, Germany-based death metal group. The quintet issue tenth full-length studio album The Symbol Of Death on April 21st, 2017 through Listenable Records, as the opposite to their previous […]
Délétère is a Quebec-based Black Metal duet, one that has been active for the past eight years. In that time they have released a pair of Demo’s, a single Full-length album, a Compilation album and […]
In 2018 Katatonia announced that they were going on hiatus, but already in February 2019 the band returned to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2009 album, Night Is the New Day. And already here in […]
It seems ages ago that Trivium busted onto the scene with their breakthrough album, Ascendancy, but it has actually only been fifteen years since. Ever since, the band has been very productive and what seems […]
The progressive environment in Finland has done it again… They come up with bands from out of “nowhere” that just catches me. This time this is a band from Tampere in the middle of the […]
Back in 2018, the Finnish one-man band Kuolonkoura released their first (and, as it would turn out, only) EP under the title Infirmum. As far as I can tell, the and – And by extension, […]
The third full length album from Canadian rockers Spell, sees them delivering a collection of music with more identity and the overall professional feel, while at the same time staying true to all of their […]
First glance at the cover and for a moment there, one wonders if this is another remix of Trentemøller’s Into the Great Wide Yonder, but no, this is something quite different, with perhaps only that […]
French quintet Dusk Of Delusion present their second full-length offering entitled Watch Your 6. It’s a wonderful conceptual album containing 10 songs about history and First World War in particular. They tell the stories of […]
Gentihaa is a metal five piece combo from Athens, Greece. The band was founded by the guitarist Valgran in 2015. After a short period of time, Béheaal (Bass), Andre Boutos (Vocals), Rös Dracùl (Guitars) and […]
Rejection is a modern groovy metal quartet from Greece. I was unfamiliar with this band prior to listening their come-back third album entitled A New Age Of Insanity. I could later on read that it […]
I was pretty much confused and didn’t know what to expect from this album prior to listening to it. This is a sudden but pleasant surprise for me as I just didn’t expect a prog […]