Profane Burial is a self-proclaimed ‘cinematic’ Black Metal band, one that aspires to mix together the epic scores of a film soundtrack with that of a heavily melodious Black Metal sound – I seem to […]
Founded in 2017, Meridion is a four-piece death metal combo hailing from Santiago, Chile. The band consists of Southern Curse (guitars, synths, horns & vocals), Bonefucker (bass), Shoort Dagon (drums) and Condanatore (keyboards). In 2018 […]
Corpus Diavolis is a French Black/Death Metal quintet which a philosophical bent alongside both the occult and satanic approaches often seen in these genres. This quickly becomes clear both in regard to how they name […]
Running Wild Productions (a non-profit label) & Mr. Rainer has done it again, released another very interesting CD-sampler. It’s entitled Austrian Metal News – The Power Of The Heavy Thrasher Vol. 2 and it, as […]
Mòr is a French Black Metal duo, one that has been around and somewhat active at least since 2014 – As far as releases are concerned, their debut happened the next year where a Demo […]
Åsse, despite being named after the Norwegian name for ‘mountain ridge’, is in actuality an Italian Black Metal Duet (hence the honourable nod to Norway I am assuming – After all, their genre of choice, […]
Hailing from Tampere (Finland), The Lifted Veil is a six-piece black/death metal formation founded ten years ago (2014), by Henri Kyllästinen and Mikko Koskinen. Later that year Aleksi Koistinen, Topi Hiltunen and Jere Korpela joined […]
Heretique is something rather interesting from a sociological point of view – It is a Polish five-piece band that has been around since 2007 and has somewhat consistently been releasing new material since that time. […]
As you already know many subgenres in metal are both a blessing and a curse for me. Sometimes it helps to describe the sound of a band that our readers might not be familiar with, […]
An album as cerebral as it is expansive. The band’s debut album comes out of the cosmos, sparks of supernovas, collapsed star gamma rays, pulse through your speakers. An all-instrumental affair, Retrogradient is complex. A […]
Alpha Lyrae is a musical project of Guido Jeri (vocals, guitar and bass), a Peruvian solo artist residing in London, UK. Alpha Lyræ is his self-titled debut album containing six quite lengthy songs. Thus, each […]
Anyone knowing me for long time knows that a classic thrash has always been one of my favorite metal genres, especially during the golden era of thrash metal, from 1984 to 1994. It was also […]
Death Blood is something (for me) as novel as a brutal Death Metal trio hailing from my beloved France – Which, despite my strong affinity for the countrys Metal scene, has for the most part […]
Dark Horizon is an as-of-yet independent German Melodic Death/Black Metal quartet – One that was officially founded back in 2006 under the name Devastation, even if the name was altered to the above-described Dark Horizon […]
Miles2fall is still a relatively young band from Germany that was founded in 2021 by former members of Mindcrime and Groophe. After just two years of band’s existence, the full-length debut entitled Lower Skies, was […]
A long time waiting on this heavy rock set by the New York Hudson River Valley quartet. Their 2016 debut Sun Killer album is a retro rising bullet on my hot album chart. It’s 2024, […]
I don’t know the reason why this material was sent to me for a review almost four years after its initial release?! Despite what I have just said, hereby I’ll try to say a few […]
Special thanks to the Catholic Church in Poland for being an endless source of fucking badass lyrical inspiration for many of the country’s extreme metal bands. Polish extreme metal has a tradition of attacking the […]
Music fans, serious music fans love an obscure band. Here you go. Tetsuo, an Italian post-punk/hardcore quintet. Their 2024 Spring release is a six-song set titled, Dots. Interesting album art, intriguing band bio. Alright you […]
Formed in 2003, and after a decade of hiatus since the release of their 2013 third full-length, Viennese symphonic extreme metal band Obsidian Chamber (the name is based on the Mayan mythology, which describes a […]
With release of their debut album Nocturnes and Requiems in 2017, Witherfall entered the metal scene with skill you’d expect from experienced gentlemen associated with Iced Earth, Sanctuary, White Wizzard etc., but what they have […]
Following the latest trend of Darkness Shall Rise, Parody Of The Masses is a re-release of a nineties Black Metal classics that somehow dodged the zeitgeit of the period (or, at the very least, I […]
World anno 2024 is a complex place with lots of era-defining events unfolding right before our eyes. As such, 21st century is big inspiration for artists. Swedish PreHistoric Animals have, unlike the majority, decided to […]
Following a 21-year hiatus (and some line-up changes) since their last album, UK-industrial metal pioneers Kill II This return with a new album entitled Variant. Earlier in their career they released; Another Cross II Bare […]
Dea Artio is a one-man atmospheric black metal project from Luftenberg/Upper Austria. It’s founded by a multi-instrumentalist Kevin Kuchlmayr alias Kvein. If his name sounds familiar to you, it’s because he’s also active, as a […]