Rienaus (finnish for ‘Blasphemy’) was formed in 2009 as a solo project of Mavrofos. Same year he released its first demo, and the following year now a full line-up released a demo entitled Beneath the […]
It has finally become official: Where Hatred Dwells and Darkness Reigns will be released on 15th of September this year (not November last year as I erroneously stated previously). The previously released single ”The Opposed” […]
Both Unru and Tongue share several similarities: For one, they are both based in the same town and area of their native Germany; Secondly, they are both playing their own take on the Black Metal […]
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) […]
Hyrgal is a French Black Metal trio, one that I have had the pleasure of reviewing a few times over the years. While they are perhaps not the most active band in the world as […]
Restless Oblivion is a Russian Doom/Gothic Metal band containing five members at present. They have been active as a band since 2009 – In those 11 years they have so far released one Full-length record […]
Glaukom Synod is an extreme industrial death metal from France that we’ve featured in on these pages before. It’s a piece of old-school industrial/death metal with experimental influnces. Ectoplasmic Revelations is a material released almost […]
Almost four years have passed since the release of this Spanish trio’s debut album, the impressive 2017’s Spectral Ascent and Carmen, Marga and Alba are now ready to follow it up with perhaps bit too […]
Edenian is a female-fronted Ukranian Gothic/Doom Metal sextet, one that has been active on the global music scene for the last decade, the last eight years of which under their current moniker (originally they performed […]
Shattered Hope is a Greek Death Metal-inspired Funeral Doom quintet, not unlike their Swedish counterpart, Doom:VS, who was founded about the same time. By the numbers however, Shattered Hope came first, first seeing the light […]
Nergard is a Power Metal all-star band, one that primarily focuses around one particular musician (namely Andreas Nergård), who has then strived to band together similar like-minded individuals, both from his native Norway and more […]
This review will be relatively short as I’m not sure why I received this CD for a review eight years after its release?! Nevertheless, here follows a short introduction to the band. Acid Death is […]
Archive photo: www.defecto.dk The live concert industry has been struggling a lot during this Covid-19 pandemic, and due to restrictions, there has not been that many concerts to attend at all during 2020 in Denmark. […]
Darkenhöld is, aside from being a band that I have had the pleasure of reviewing several times since my employment here at Metal Revolution, a very solid band. In the last twelve years since their […]