23rd April 2024
Coming out just as the pandemic basically snoozed the world, Dool were unlucky with their previous album, Summerland. Well unlucky because they had their absolute career highlight on their hands and one of the strongest […]
22nd April 2024
The Norwegian band hit the absolute bullseye with their third album Ænigma in 2013 and since then they have released only one more album. 2018 Currents was a really good record, but it never matched […]
22nd April 2024
Sacrum Funeral is a materialization of the funeral psalms, released by a Polish horde going under the moniker of Cultum Interium. The 12″ vinyl was released at the end of 2023, in a collaboration with […]
21st April 2024
Hulder manages to tick off most of the points I seem to have been talking about for years now about what makes a truly great band. It is a solo act (meaning that there is […]
20th April 2024
Jours Pâles is a French Black Metal duo, one that I have had the pleasure of following since their inception back in 2019; At the time known as Asphodèle, a Post-Black Metal act – The […]
20th April 2024
With their previous release Etemen Ænka, Scottish Dvne, not only released the strongest album of their career, but also one of the strongest albums of 2021. Their bland of Post and Progressive Metal as well […]
19th April 2024
Heavy, meaty grooves. The first track “A.I.” is right out of the Black Sabbath heavy metal forge. Sparks of Orange Goblin and Nebula mixed in the metal alchemy. A slow, sludge, pumping mechanical drumbeats. A […]
19th April 2024
CAB (Christopher Augustino Botolon) is a solo artist Detriot, USA. CAB is basically an old school seasoned drummer/percussionist from Detroit, who’s been around including playing L.A. music scene 1982-1989, then returned home to Detroit in […]
18th April 2024
The British Doom Metal legends released their previous album The Ghost of Orion just days before the pandemic paralyzed the world in 2020. It was an important album for the band, because it came out after five […]
18th April 2024
Next band I choose to present today is Deathlike Dawn who hail from a Polish extreme metal scene that has achieved great international success and has become one of the most significant ambassadors of Polish […]
17th April 2024
Idiot Child are a five piece noise rock/sludge metal band from neighbouring Malmö, Sweden. The band currently consists of Melker Engelberger (drums), Isak Svensson (bass) Jonas Stojiljkovic (guitar), Oliver Dahl (guitar) Mikey Engelberger (vocals & […]
16th April 2024
Kouristus is a grindcore quartet from Tampere, Finland founded in 2012. The band has been active on the stage for many years and now their earned experience resulted in a completely new release from this […]
16th April 2024
Sunnata is in many ways a rather unique band. Musically, their doom cornerstone is inspired by the boggy grunge of 90’s Alice and Chains and the spellbinding depths of general Swans approach. And while on […]
15th April 2024
Necroeucharist Productions is a fairly new (since 2020) Black/Death metal label from Switzerland. One of their latest releases is from a Slovakian black/project metal band Klifot. I don’t even know if it is a one-man […]
12th April 2024
The Swedish (Kiruna-based) death metal band Those Who Bring The Torture has recently released their ninth album, Towards Decay via Iron, Blood and Death Corporation. For those of you still unfamiliar with this band, I […]
21st June 2024
Photo: Goran www.urbanmescalero.com Ever since their heyday in the 90’s New York Hard Core originals from Biohazard have been on and off with different line-ups. The classic line-up shortly reunited in late 00’s and then […]
21st June 2024
Photo: Goran www.urbanmescalero.com Somewhat of a scoop for Copenhell, looking at Mr. Bungle’s significance in 90’s when they released some of the most interesting and revolutionary experimental music. The band cantered around Mike Patton (Faith […]
21st June 2024
Archive photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com (Photographers were banned from Black Sabbath’s Copenhell show) Sadly Avenged Sevenfold’s career seriously took off after the passing of their drummer The Rev. Dream Theater’s Mike Portnoy stepped in for recording and […]
21st June 2024
Photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com In 2021 Scottish Dvne released Etemen Ænka which ended up being one of the strongest releases of the year and in fact an album that helped define progressive metal in this time […]
20th June 2024
Photo: Goran www.urbanmescalero.com One of the big names at this year’s Copenhell are California’s The Offspring, who haven’t played Copenhagen in a long long time. Off the bat it seems bit illogical that they were […]
20th June 2024
Photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com Corey Taylor had always been a busy man, unfolding his creativity in many directions. Ever since Stone Sour was placed on indefinite hiatus, Taylor focused on his solo career, alongside his bread-and-butter Slipknot. […]
13th June 2024
Houle is a French Black Metal quintet, one whom I had the pleasure of reviewing their debut EP some two years ago. In the interim between then and now they have not only seen it […]
12th June 2024
The Raging Project emerges from Project Rage, conceived in 2007 in Besançon, France by Ivan Jacquin and Lionel Fevre. This initially an electro-metal duo was later joined by female vocalist Jeannick Valleur. In 2009 they […]
11th June 2024
It’s a bit strange to write a review of a material released three years ago, and after I’ve reviewed Vol. 2 prior to this release. Meanwhile, what we have here is Austrian Metal News – […]
10th June 2024
Photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com Last year Richie Kotzen guested Pumpehusert in Copenhagen together with The Winery Dogs and shortly after the band’s drummer Mike Portnoy announced his return to Dream Theater and Kotzen announced his European […]
