6th August 2017
Den Förstfödde marks the end of an era, in a fashion. It has been stated by the band to be the last release from this underground Swedish Black Metal band, which carries the name Arckanum. In […]
4th August 2017
Eskapism is, as far as I have been able to gather, an Atmospheric Black Metal duet based in western Ukraine and one that, despite having very experienced members, is a fairly new addition to the […]
3rd August 2017
Fubar is a grind-core band from the Netherlands, unfamiliar to me prior to listening to their latest CD. It was sent to me recently from FDA Rekotz. A little research on the band told me […]
2nd August 2017
Tom de Wit, who is the driving force behind TDW has been releasing the records under this name since 2004, but this is my very first encounter with his music. De With wrote all the […]
1st August 2017
We’re rapidly approaching a decade mark since Steven Wilson put Porcupine Tree on hold and while the band is missed deeply, with every new solo record from Wilson, the missing is bit easier to handle. […]
31st July 2017
Tommy Victor has always been a busy man, even during Prong’s hiatus in late 90’s and early 00’s. Over the years he has been involved with number of other artists such as Danzig, Ministry, Rob […]
28th July 2017
While Japanese Metal acts are not unheard of, they are, in my experience, rare at best. As such I usually jump at the chance to get my hands on any such bands that cross my […]
19th July 2017
Four tracks, fifty-two minutes. That was the first thing I noticed about Vision Wallows in Symphonies of Light – And one of the primary reasons why I was drawn to it. I have long had […]
13th July 2017
Toxik represents, to me at least, a trend that has been going on for quite a few years now. More and more of the old-school Thrash Metal bands, many of which have been inactive for […]
12th July 2017
I’m not much about “female-fronted” term when it comes to music, but I must admit that there is something to female fronted bands in certain genre’s Metal Revolution works with. Perhaps it’s the fact that […]
2nd July 2017
In course of their career Stone Sour have prove to be a band that can deliver hard rock / heavy albums of fairly steady quality while at the same time allowing themselves to experiment within […]
1st July 2017
A while ago I had the distinct pleasure of reviewing the album Castellum by the French Black Metal act Darkenhöld. If memory serves, that proved to be quite an experience for me, since it not […]
27th June 2017
Florida-based quintet Ether shares their name with quite a few bands – I have been able to count three so far. This version, however, is a fairly new entry, release-wise (as far as I can […]
21st June 2017
Karne is, simply put, one of apparently many new-comers to the modern Black Metal scene. And, as seems to be more often the case than not, they are part of the evergrowing French version – […]
19th June 2017
It has been an interesting journey for Anathema since they started as a doom metal band in early 90’s. Since then they have changed numerous band members, changed almost as many record labels and changed […]
4th August 2020
Romanian Raw Black Metal duo Vokodlok (which is apparently a bastadized version of the word for ‘Werewolf’) reformed two years ago, fifteen years after releasing their latest Full-length album. Inbetween touring Eastern Europe they seem […]
4th August 2020
Despite of being a reviewer for 20 years now I still have the same level of excitement as I did when I was a kid when checking out and for discovering new bands. I’m not […]
29th July 2020
Since half of our staff employees originate from the Balkans, we always get exited to hear from a new and unfamiliar acts from that particular area. Thus, naturally I also got exited this time around […]
24th July 2020
Let me say from the very start that my knowledge of this band from Poland was non-existent prior to the release of this album. I think the majority of the people reading this didn’t know […]
22nd July 2020
Looking back at Haken’s discography, the first thing that comes to mind is that over the course of all their releases, the band has managed to uphold a remarkable quality level. And if that wasn’t […]
19th July 2020
Since this was my first experience with the band at first a band named Witcher didn’t sound as a black metal band to me, but rather some kind of medieval, doom and war metal. Nevertheless, […]
15th July 2020
Forbidden Rites is an internationally based Blackened Death Metal act, one that has so far been active for roughly three years. In that time they have seen it fit to grace us with their debut […]
14th July 2020
It’s not very often during my two decades as a writer that I’ve had the opportunity to listen to as good death/thrash metal as this one. I’m talking of a debut album of Italian five […]
9th July 2020
Doing this since 2001 I don’t believe that I’ve ever had the opportunity to listen to a black metal act from Los Angeles/California?! Indesiderium are just that, an uncompromising black metal duo from the city […]
1st July 2020
Germany has always been known for its strong thrash metal scene where many bands have been active since the 80s. Here comes another veteran German band – Disbelief, founded back in 1990 in Hesse. One […]
