Three things are all you need in order to get an idea of whether The Wiccan is an album for you or not: 1: It is Black Metal with a traditional Greek twist, not unlike […]
Divine Ascension is a female fronted progressive metal outfit from (Melbourne) Australia. Over the past few years this sixtet from down under have developed a complex and unique sound. Meanwhile, Liberator os their second full-length, […]
One thing is for certain: If you are looking for musical superstar bands (or a very talented one-man band), you will more often than not look towards the Black Metal scene. And Norwegian (obviously, Norwegian) […]
Back in 2006 British doom pioneers released A Line of Deathless Kings, an album that not only is among their finest, but an album that possessed energy, hunger and vitality that made the band feel […]
Few things you need to know about me before you read this review. I’ve been following Iron Maiden for three decades. I think that The X Factor is a phenomenal album. I think that the […]
In May 2009 the band Suicide Heaven was founded, but shortly after the band changed its name to Gyze. Thus, Gyze is a Japanese melodic death metal (with notable Neo-Classical influences) trio who we’ve presented […]
Ob(Servant) is a nine-tracker re-release of this band (founded in 1999) from down under. It comes as a follow-up to the highly aclaimed predecessor Symbols Of Failure. Ob (Servant) is their fourth studio album, released […]
Founded in 2003 Burning Saviours are a Swedish doom lords, a band that has been on I Hate Records since the release of their second full-length Hundus. Boken Om Förbannelsen (The Book About The Curse) […]
Take two equal parts of Black and Doom Metal, mix them together into one person and add several talented session musicians. Stir for five years in a city in Austria and you end ud with […]
Most Russian bands I’ve heard in the last few years were mainly playing doom, pagan and gothic metal. Tacit Fury is different in a sense that they are playing a groovy and brutal death metal. […]
Naked Idol is a hard rock band from Espoo (Finalnd), founded in 2006. Filthy Fairies is their latest EP-release. Their music has been described as an ‘unique combination of big poppy choruses, grungy riffs, and […]
Veonity is, as one might be able to discern from the cover art, a Power Metal band, one that draws a lot of inspiration from the legends of the eighties (most notably Manowar) and more […]
Continuing their re-releasing spree, one of Graveworms finest albums to date is granted a new, golden finish: Indeed, (N)utopia is back among us! And thankfully, nothing has been changed except the colour of the physical […]
Italian Black Metal quintet Graveworm are quite well-known these days. So much in fact, that Metal Mind Records have decided to re-release several of their most famous (and, probably best-selling) albums in a limited Golden […]
Faithful Darkness is a melodic death & thrash metal quintet from Helsingborg (Sweden). Archgod is band’s third full-length album, containing 13 tracks. They’ve been aorund for almost a decade now, so they are not a […]
Triste Terre is a French Atmospheric Black Metal band that has been around since 2016. In that time they have primarily focused on honing their music, releasing the occassional EP along the way. And now, […]
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 […]