Still Looking For the Answers is a début album form 41Point9, but what we have here is a group of rather musically experienced gentlemen. Consisting of Bob Madsen (Enchant, Xen), Brian Cline (Enchant) and Kenny […]
Odin’s Court financed their first releases themselves but since the band has been signed to ProgRock Records and released their label debut Deathanity in 2008. The follow up is in many ways simpler and more […]
Debut album from UK’s TesseracT, appropriately entitled One, is one of those albums that crave your time, attention and patience. These is a lot going on the album both when it comes to music, lyrics, […]
Nine Stones Close’s debut on ProgRock Records is by far the band’s finest release. All of a sudden the band has reached whole another level of production and the concept behind the album seems more […]
Third album from German (almost) instrumental band sees the band continuing in the style set by previous two albums, meaning that the music is inspired by the likes of Tool, Pink Floyd, ISIS and nineties […]
Shakra are not found of change. Their music never really changes much, and the new album offers no surprises. However, it’s with the same formula that the band after ten years of existing managed to […]
Debut EP from Australian duo is a melancholic and dark affair that mixes metal with alternative rock and as such it’s a new ground for these gentlemen best known for their black metal bands, Woods […]
Every time the new Pain Of Salvation album comes out I feel like taking a day off from work in order to be able to listen to their album all day long. They are one of […]
Self titled EP from Seattle based Nazca Lines serves as a teaser for their forthcoming second album and judging from this three song EP there is something to look forward to. Building around East Cost […]
Eleven months since their debut, the Finnish band consisting of people associated with Poisonblack, Sentenced, Reflexion, Embraze, and Fall Of The Leafe, are ready with their second album. This is exciting news, but taking into […]
After 5 albums in little over 5 years Devon Graves decided to take a break from DeadSoul Tribe and focus on other projects. When we met him back in 2008 he was talking about one […]
Twenty years into their carrier Therapy? have just released their first official live CD. And it was about time. Looking back at this band’s career the one thing that always stands out, the one thing that […]
Excess is a first English speaking album form Polish band, Coma. Actually Excess is made of ten songs from their previous album Hipertrofia – rerecorded and translated to English. This feels like a bad idea […]
Usually I’m not the biggest fan of heavy metal super groups, but this time is exception. The Damned Things is all American heavy metal supergroup featuring Scott Ian & Rob Caggiano (Anthrax), Keith Buckley (Every […]
Where were you 30 years ago? It’s hard to believe that Bad Religion have been around for three decades, but what’s even harder to comprehend is that over the years the band has remained influential, […]
It might not seem so, but The Pineapple Thief have been around for almost two decades and in course of that time the band has displayed constant evolving. If their previous release Your Wilderness signaled the band […]
Avast is a rather unique creation – Even more so the more I delve into it. From what I have been able to gather so far, we are dealing with a Norwegian quartet that has […]
It seems surreal that more than three decades have passed since Udo Dirkschneider left Accept and released the first album with his own band U.D.O. Still to this day it’s hard to find a review, […]
Greybeards is an alternative rock quartet from Gävle, Sweden. For The Wilder Minds is their second full length 10-tracker album where the band come across with a good personality and own musical identity. In a […]
In 2007 Norwegian band Manes released How The World Came To An End, which ended up being the finest release of that year. Since then the band has taken their sweet time when it comes […]
Five years since the release of their previous album Alice In Chains are ready with the third album of their William DuVall-era. Since the outstanding return in form of 2009’s Black Gives Light to Blue, […]
Lithuanian Au-Dessus (who still confuses me a bit with their French name), was founded four years ago as as Post-Black Metal quartet and cemented their status as a worthy addition to the genre a year […]
With the release of their latest offering Deprevador, the Spanish (based in Madrid) noise-mongers VOR bring to the table one of the most corrosive releases of the year. The album contains only 7 tracks, but […]
Paganland is a Ukranian-based Black Metal band with strong roots and other connections to their history and past as part of the Slavic countries. The five musicians take great pride in both their nationality and […]
Toteninsel (German for ‘Isle of the Dead’) is a rather interesting EP with quite a bit of history already, despite the fact that it is not to be released for another month. A few years […]