15th August 2016
Hour of Anguish is an almost brand new Melodic Death Metal band, formed and presently consisting of a Swedish duet named Richard Lee and Andreas Henriksson. While those names mean absolutely nothing to me, after […]
12th August 2016
As time has passed, I have gotten more accustomed to, and even enjoy, certain mixtures of genres (whereas I was heavily against it in the past). For instance, American-based VRTRA (I have no idea what […]
10th August 2016
DrukNRoll is a band Russian Heavy Metal band who has been around for ten years now. In that time, they have kept themselves busy, releasing one EP and four full-length albums. The album that I […]
9th August 2016
Gory Blister is an Italian quartet, the first of its kind that I have stumbled across who plays a very technical (and good) Death Metal. Now, normally I prefer my Death Metal very old-fashioned (no […]
8th August 2016
As implied by the title of the album, IV: Beyond the Reef of Sanity is the fourth full-length release produced by Swedish Kayser and delivered by French Listenable Records. Now, this is the second time […]
5th August 2016
Ruins is an Australian Black Metal duet that has been around for the last twelve years. In that time, they have been somewhat busy, having released a single EP as well as four full-length records. […]
4th August 2016
I suppose that Unchained Reality can be considered the solo project of vocalist Koert Van Zon, seeing as how he is the driving force between the bands first ever release, full-length or otherwise. And, in […]
4th August 2016
Founded in 1997, Harm (not to be confused with the German death metal band that shares the same name) are a metal trio from neighboring Norway. Earlier this year they presented their new sonic assault, […]
3rd August 2016
Temtris is a female-fronted dark heavy metal band hailing from the New South Wales in Australia. The band was founded in 2000 and Enter The Asylum is their fourth full-length album. The album features Wayne […]
2nd August 2016
Obsidian is the solo project of the drummer from the German Death Metal band Era Hex. By his own admission, it is meant as a means to create his own sound, of what hatred, death […]
1st August 2016
Ex Animo is, as is often the case when it comes to the Gothic Metal genre, a female-fronted quintet, in this case one that hails from Ukraine. This does not hinder them in delivering the […]
21st July 2016
Later this year, the eight installment in Danish Iron Fire’s discography will hit the stores. And, since zombies and zombie-inflicted apocalypses seem to be all the rage these days (in film and TV-series at least), […]
17th July 2016
American quartet Omen is nothing less than a blast from the past. Having originally been formed back in 1983, the band has disbanded only to reform again in 1996. Despite their short break fom the […]
15th July 2016
Savage Master is an American Heavy Metal band, one that seems to have taken quite a few lessons from earlier decades (the early eighties to be exact – The band themselves admit to be heavily […]
12th July 2016
If you attempt to revolve a Doom Metal concept around classical horror stories, like those portrayed in the old black-and-white movies (and even adding a hammond, a type or organ found in said horror movies), […]
22nd December 2019
Ades Numen (which is latin for ‘Come Force’) is an Italian Black/Death Metal trio that was founded two years ago in Padua. From what I have been able to gather, the first two years of […]
18th December 2019
Valgrind are veterans of an extreme metal scene, formed from the ashes of the 1993 blackened-death metal act, Necrospell. These Italians have been very active and productive since the very foundation of the band, always […]
11th December 2019
At first, judging by the name of the band alone, I expected Desert Near The End some kind of southern/oriental rock. I would say luckily I was completely wrong, as this band (founded in 2009) […]
7th December 2019
Xoresth is a Turkish Funeral Doom Metal band consisting of four members who teamed up about six years ago. In that time, the band has released several Splits, a single Demo and, as of last […]
4th December 2019
Only seven years after its formation, Nordland (United Kingdom) has released four full-length albums. The Dead Stones is band’ 2018 release containing nine tracks. Actually, Nordland is one-man project by the guy called Vorh. Usually, […]
2nd December 2019
Mercury is the classic debut album by Gothic band Madder Mortem. It’s official release was back in 1999, but after having been unavailable for many years, it is now re-released by Dark Essence Records. In […]
30th November 2019
Dust is a Metalcore band from Torino, Italy and they released their debut album called Break The Silence 22nd November 2019, through Volcano Records, and there is no doubt they stay true to the metalcore […]
29th November 2019
It is rare that I come across bands from Chile. As a matter of fact, I am pretty sure that Decem Maleficivm represents the second of third such band that has travelled across my desk […]
28th November 2019
Last year, the French band, best known for their blend of post tech metal and avant-garde progressive metal, released an album that could be described as an acoustic Latin American soundtrack to a movie. The […]
27th November 2019
Photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com With almost four decades behind them, it goes without saying that any band has been through several ups and downs, and that is especially the case for Seattle’s Queensrÿche. Band spent better […]
