Despite having released it as their self-titled album, Kali Yuga is in fact, as opposed to tradition, not their debut album, but instead their third full-length release. And what does this mean for us, the […]
Ukranian Melodic Death Metallers Red Hills released their debut album entitled Pleasure of Destruction. While it is, technically, their debut album, it also doubles as a Demo of sorts (due to its fairly short running […]
Vera Euridice is a young metal formation from the italian speaking part of Switzerland. You can almost consider it an Italian band with everything it implies. First, these guys sing in Italian and they are […]
Dysylumn is a French Black and Death Metal duet, one that has been around since the year 2010. While I cannot seem to find any significantly long list of bands that the two musicians have […]
Yerbadiablo’s second full-length release It Doesn’t Work is probably one of the hardest reviews that I had to write this year, simply because it is not even close to anything that I usually listen to. […]
As you can no doubt ascertain from the two lines above, Slaughtering the Faithful is a re-release of the classical third full-length release of American Death Metal act Pessimist. And as such, I went in […]
A couple of years ago I’ve already presented you with this hard-hitting project named Glaukom Synod. Now, it’s time to write a few words on this French guy’s 13th release, a 2014 Promo CD entitled […]
Norway has always been known for its strong and ever progressing black metal scene. The latest arrival to this flourishing scene is the band named Blot (‘Blood’). It is a first proper full-length album from […]
Aeons of Ashes (AoA) is a realtively newly-formed quintet from St. Pölten, Austria. Founded in 2013 AoA features ex. members of renowned Austrian metal acts such as Trashcanned, Epsilon and Desiccated. Shutdown is their debut […]
The more I dabble with the French Black Metal scene, the more golden nuggets just seem to almost throw themselves at me. The newest great discovery (or rather, the newest band kindly provided to me) […]
Bremen-based Hardcore act Watch Out Stampede (a band that is notoriously difficult to learn anything about) has, at some point during this year, released their full-length album Tides. It contains a grand total of eleven […]
I recent times my eyes have begun opening upto the wonders of the French Black Metal scene, which, I discover more and more, is not only a lot bigger than I first anticipated; it is […]
BWP stands for Bad Weather Project, and it is an Italian quartet who finds its roots in grunge, early 90s heavy metal and post-rock. Stormriders is their latest release, a 9-tracker album released on their […]
US-based trio Sathanas are no strangers to the world. Having been around since 1988, they have had a good, long time to perfect their own style of heavily Black Metal-influenced Death Metal. From what I […]
If there is one thing I enjoy when it comes to advertising, it is simplicity. And that certainly played a part when Bato kindly sent me XV – Greatest Hits. XV refers to the release […]
There is something about young, unsigned bands. There has always been. A certain hunger and a view on music and even music business that is not jaded. It’s these kinds of bands that often start […]
What happens when two experienced musicians put their heads together, grab a friend to play the drums and they begin to write new material? Well, in this case, the French trio took on the name […]
Almost four decades into their career, Californian band come out with an album entitled, Shock. What is so shocking that they can deliver in 2019? The new album sees the band capitalizing on decades of […]
Fatalistic Uprisal of Abhorrent Creation is the third full-length album of UK/Greek death/black metal band Demonic Obedience. It used to be a one-man band run by a Greek guy named George Dtavelas. He recorded his […]
Photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com For the past year or so Greta Van Fleet has been on everyone’s lips and they are by many proclaimed as the band that will bring 70’s inspired rock back to the mainstream. […]
Dekonstruktor (band started out as Moon Mistress) is as strange and obscure as it sounds. At first I expected to hear some brutal death/black metal, but this is quite opposite and different. Having no limitation […]
Photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com Rainy Sunday evening in Copenhagen was in a sign of prog rock and more so than just because of The Pineapple Thief concert. There was also a serious Porcupine Tree / King Crimson […]
After two very strong releases with new singer Todd La Torre, Queensrÿche took a bit more time before releasing their 15th album. Well, it’s their 15th if you don’t count former singer Geoff Tate’s Queensrÿche […]
The second full-length release by the (un)likely partnership between Primus’ bassist Les Claypool and guitarist/vocalist Sean Lennon picks up where the 2016 debut left off. This means that we are off to the expected unpredictability […]
After releasing the weakest album of their carrier in the form of the previous album The Astonishing, which followed the solid, but unimpressive self-titled album, prog metal giants were in serious need of an album […]