I don’t know the reason why this material was sent to me for a review almost four years after its initial release?! Despite what I have just said, hereby I’ll try to say a few […]
Special thanks to the Catholic Church in Poland for being an endless source of fucking badass lyrical inspiration for many of the country’s extreme metal bands. Polish extreme metal has a tradition of attacking the […]
Music fans, serious music fans love an obscure band. Here you go. Tetsuo, an Italian post-punk/hardcore quintet. Their 2024 Spring release is a six-song set titled, Dots. Interesting album art, intriguing band bio. Alright you […]
Formed in 2003, and after a decade of hiatus since the release of their 2013 third full-length, Viennese symphonic extreme metal band Obsidian Chamber (the name is based on the Mayan mythology, which describes a […]
With release of their debut album Nocturnes and Requiems in 2017, Witherfall entered the metal scene with skill you’d expect from experienced gentlemen associated with Iced Earth, Sanctuary, White Wizzard etc., but what they have […]
Following the latest trend of Darkness Shall Rise, Parody Of The Masses is a re-release of a nineties Black Metal classics that somehow dodged the zeitgeit of the period (or, at the very least, I […]
World anno 2024 is a complex place with lots of era-defining events unfolding right before our eyes. As such, 21st century is big inspiration for artists. Swedish PreHistoric Animals have, unlike the majority, decided to […]
Following a 21-year hiatus (and some line-up changes) since their last album, UK-industrial metal pioneers Kill II This return with a new album entitled Variant. Earlier in their career they released; Another Cross II Bare […]
Dea Artio is a one-man atmospheric black metal project from Luftenberg/Upper Austria. It’s founded by a multi-instrumentalist Kevin Kuchlmayr alias Kvein. If his name sounds familiar to you, it’s because he’s also active, as a […]
Nemoreus is a six-member Austrian folk-metal band consisting of; Fabian Zechmeister (vocals, bouzouki & flutes), Kai Auer (guitar), Stefan Hochegger (guitar), Maike Fink (violin), Stefan Jerabek (bass) & Adrian Weiss (drums). The band is not […]
Tomáš Kohout is responsible for churning of the most demented riffs in Czech Republic’ black metal history, as evidenced by his work in Master’s Hammer. However, a lot of people are not aware of his […]
Released on Halloween 2023, Tales From Death is latest album by Belgium one-man project going under the moniker of Horrorwish. It comes as a follow-up to his 2020 debut album No Place To Hide. The […]
In a classic example of not planning ahead properly, I can now sit down and review the first ever release from Swedish Death/Black Metallers In Battle – The band whose ‘second’ ever release I was […]
Alone the idea of a supergroup consisting of Glenn Hughes, Joe Bonamassa, Jason Bonham and Derek Sherinian was enough to create plenty of buzz around in the world of rock music even before Black Country […]
Heavy music being produced in Poland is something I am always fond of so I was exited when I saw another metal release from Poland landed at my doorstep. Ethelyn is no exception, as they […]
Continuing on with my ramblings from yesterday I am proceeding backwards through time and the discography of Aorlhac, to the also-to-be re-released album La Cité des Vents (rough translation meaning ‘The Windy City’), their first […]
Aorlhac is a French modern Black Metal act that I have had the pleasure of following for the majority of their sixteen year lifespan – Coincidentally enough, my first introduction to the quartet was the […]
Ulvehunger, which is Norwegian for ‘Wolves Hunger’ was originally envisioned as a continuation of the band Balvaz, a Death Metal act – Albeit with somewhat of a twist, namely a substantial amount of Black Metal added […]
Azketem, despite being the self-titled release of German One-man Black Metal act, is in actuality the second Full-Length released under their current moniker and the fourth overall, counting his original two Demos, all of which […]
I am a harsh critic…when it comes to Thrash metal. It’s the metal genre I grew up listening to, back in the day (late 80’s). First listen, meh. Not into it so much. Then…as every […]
Another interesting and different release from Darkness Shall Rise Productions. For the first time ever, they release a compilation on LP/CD/3-MC box and digital gathering the three demos from melodic death metal pioneers – Desultory. […]
My Metal Revolution inbox brims with publicists digitally elbowing one another, record labels touting their next release in lengthy word salad emails. It’s a good “problem” to have. More new music than I can remember […]
Leprous is a highly productive band and 15 years into their recording career the band is ready with their eighth full-length studio release entitled Melodies Of Atonement. The last couple of releases were somewhat dividing amongst […]
Sarke is a pioneer Norwegian metal act who was founded more than 15 years ago. It started out as an one-man band, but was later joined by musicians from bands such as Dimmu Borgir, Satyricon, […]
More than three years have passed since The Dead Daisies released Holy Ground, their first album since parting ways with singer John Corabi and bassist Marco Mendoza. The two were replaced by legendary singer/bassists Glenn […]