10th May 2008
The press releases, which are always attached to these CD’s we review, are something that I always read, but rarely find useful. The same was the case with Demians’ debut album, but one fact did […]
1st May 2008
Label: Nuclear Blast Records / Release date: 2nd May 2008 Almost five years after the release of their latest album, Prey, these Swedish goths are ready with a new album. Amanethes is produced by the […]
25th April 2008
It has been almost ten years since Testament released new studio material, but now, finally, the thrash legends are ready with a new album that sees the original guitarists Eric Peterson and Alex Skolnick recording […]
1st April 2008
Italian FO6 is a band that has its roots in a hardcore scene, but the band finds inspiration in other genres as well, and by doing this they try to create something different. The result […]
1st April 2008
With a big help from Corey Taylor of Slipknot and Stone Sour, Walls of Jericho have created a semi acoustic EP that showcases the band in a somewhat different light. The metalcore roots the band […]
17th February 2008
Nil Recurring is a mini album consisting of four songs, which are leftovers from sessions for the band’s 2007 masterpiece Fear Of A Blank Planet. The idea of releasing this material as a separate release […]
1st February 2008
Debut album from the Polish youngsters offers nine tracks of high-voltage heavy metal. From the very beginning, it is easy to see who is in charge as the music is based upon the impressive guitar […]
15th January 2008
In case that The Bedlam in Goliath is your first encounter with this band, you will most likely be overwhelmed by the sonic assault that hits you right from the start, and if you survive […]
7th January 2008
From the very beginning it’s clear that Future Awaits is nothing less then a perfectly produced record. Not only because the balance between the instruments is even and because the sound fills the room perfectly, […]
25th December 2007
Despite the fact that Paradox was formed more then twenty years ago, Electrify is only their fourth album. Due to personal tragedies and what not, the band was forced to stop their activities in longer […]
15th November 2007
After being fired from Skid Row in 1996, Sebastian Bach has done everything, from recording music with different musicians and taking part in numerous VH-1 reality shows, to acting in Broadway musicals and even acting […]
1st November 2007
Fifteen years after the release of their finest album to date, Land Of The Free, German power metal band Gamma Ray, with ex-Helloween guitarist/vocalist Kai Hansen in front, is releasing Land Of The Free II. […]
1st November 2007
After releasing Operation Mindcrime II in 2006 and live album Mindcrime At The Moore earlier this year, Queensrÿche are already releasing another album. However, Take Cover doesn’t consist of any original songs, but it is […]
22nd October 2007
Serj Tankian is the first member of System Of A Down to release an solo album since the band took a break form each other in 2006, a break that according to some of the […]
15th October 2007
After his drug overdose last year and a trip to rehab, Monster Magnet’s only original member, Dave Wyndorf, is back among the living with the band’s seventh album. This return also sees the return of […]
5th July 2018
Appollonia is a French one-man band, one that draws inspiration from such diverse sources as Alice in Chains, Queens of the Stone Age and Mastodon; The premise behind it being to merge the heavy sounds […]
2nd July 2018
Cor Scorpii was created the same year that legendary Windir sadly ceased to exist: This is by no means a coincidence, since three of the members of said legendary band transitioned over into this impressive […]
29th June 2018
H.P. Lovecraft is, in my humble opinion at least, one of the more predominant writers of the early 18th century. Not only did he manage to create an entirely new sub-genre of horror – One […]
26th June 2018
Hyrgal is a French Black Metal trio originally founded back in 2008 where they released their first Split album with the band Kairn. After a brief hiatus the band returned in full force two years […]
26th June 2018
Norwegian underground occult hard rockers Acârash have just released their debut full-length album entitled In Chaos Becrowned, but before we dwell a bit more into this 8-tracker album, let me introduce the band for you. […]
25th June 2018
Photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmescalero.com Trying to figure out what Helloween has been though in course of their almost 35-year long career is somewhat of a overwhelming task if you haven’t been living and breathing […]
25th June 2018
Photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmescalero.com It has been almost three years since the release of W.A.S.P.’s latest album Golgotha, but the band has, much like since the release of critically acclaimed 2007’s Dominator, been touring […]
25th June 2018
Archive photo: Zoran www.sonic-shot.com (Photographers were banned from Ozzy Osbourne’s Copenhell show) Couple of years ago Ozzy visited Copenhell on final tour with Black Sabbath. This year he headlined the Friday with his solo band […]
25th June 2018
Photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmescalero.com Over the course of a past decade German trash legends have experienced something of a revival. This is largely due to general rise of trash metal with giants like Metallica, […]
24th June 2018
Archive photo: Urban Mescalero Photography www.urbanmesclero.com (Photographers were banned from Alice In Chain’s Copenhell show) I had pleasure of experiencing Alice In Chains on their Dirt tour in 1993, with the original singer Layne Staley […]
