11th October 2010
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 […]
1st October 2010
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 […]
24th September 2010
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, […]
17th September 2010
The Man-Eating Tree is a project consisting of Poisonblack, Sentenced, Reflexion, Embraze, and Fall Of The Leafe members, but that is far from the most interesting fact about this band. Fortunately it’s their music that […]
1st September 2010
Fourth album from Manchester’s alternative prog rockers sees the band playing some of the heaviest music of their carrier. The album opener “Part Cardiac” is heavy, fat, almost Sabbath like monster, with some surprisingly rough […]
10th August 2010
Sometimes, a job as a writer and journalist isn’t all about fun. To remain objective, no matter how big or well-established the band is, is one of the tasks that I find the most challenging. […]
7th August 2010
It seems like there is long time between very good hard rock albums this year and I guess the same goes for the past few years as well. With Audioslave out of the picture, Velvet […]
1st August 2010
Anti-Matter Poetry is third album from German t (Thomas Thielen), who has written, performed and produced this atmospheric album. Title is most likely inspired by Russell Edson’s poem “Amtimatter” and much like the poem this […]
1st July 2010
Debut album from Dutch five-piece, Sky Architect is in many ways a ride through some four decades of symphonic prog rock and while the backbone of the album is based around 70’s prog scene with […]
20th June 2010
Two years ago Demians released a splendid début Building An Empire, which introduced the great talent of Nicolas Chapel to the world, the man who wrote, produced, sang and played everything on it. The album […]
17th June 2010
Take look at the band’s name. Take a look at the song titles. Take a look at the front cover. It’s more then enough to form a first opinion of this band, right? Right. And […]
18th May 2010
To celebrate 30 years since the formation of this very important and highly influential punk band, Bad Religion have decided to release a live album which is available for free download for all those who […]
1st May 2010
Before there was a Bay Area-movement Y&T was packing sweaty clubs in the area became one of the bands to influence a whole movement of the bands who later became global stars and wrote their […]
1st May 2010
I guess by now everyone knows the story behind Deftones’ sixth album, but here it goes anyway: Band’s bassist Chi Cheng was involved in a car crash before the release of their sixth album entitled […]
1st May 2010
So what we have here is another album from an ex Helloween member. Over the years there have been a number of these bands, be it Gamma Ray, Michael Kiske or Beautiful Sin and with […]
23rd October 2018
Eleven years ago five Finnish musicians banded together to form a band, one hell-bent upon joining the already rising Second Wave Black Metal scene. They did so the following year by releasing their first EP, […]
23rd October 2018
Of course, it’s a marketing move, when you hype your new album as “Our ‘Black Album’”, but there is so much nonsense in such a statement even before actually hearing the album. Nevertheless, Disturbed chose […]
23rd October 2018
Tales of Hate, Lust And Chaos is the new album of Peruvian (!) death ‘n’ roll project called Fervent Hate. Tales of Hate, Lust And Chaos consists of 10 very strong tracks that show the […]
20th October 2018
Helsótt, despite the very Old Norse word (meaning ‘fatal illness’ in case any of you out there either are a fan of viking history or collect random trivia) is in actuality an American quintet, founded […]
19th October 2018
Satanath is quite a peculiar band, to say the least. First of all, both the name of the one-man band (Satanath) as well as the name of every single one of the twenty tracks present […]
16th October 2018
Riven is a Belgian-based one-man band known for two other projects: Namely Svarthart (a Doom/Death Metal mix) and Verderf (Death Metal). Riven, his by default solo project, explores a darker, more powerfully down-trodden path than […]
9th October 2018
With their previous album, the 2014 opus The Satanist, Behemoth have not only created the highlight of their career, but at the same time showed the strength of broadening the horizons of the genre, whilst […]
9th October 2018
It often feels like power metal genre is the genre that has evolved least since its heyday in the 80’s. Sure, the likes of Ghost are taking the music and the whole concept in distinctive […]
3rd October 2018
Forgive me for generalizing and being somewhat blunt when describing this upcoming Split Album – It is not because it is a particularly bad album, nor by any means generic – In fact, I quite […]
2nd October 2018
Wrathrone is a death metal band swarming from the gutters of Laitila, Finland. They’ve been around for 10 years now, and this year they strike hard with their sophomore album fittingly entitled Reflections Of Torment. […]
