12th September 2008
There were the 80s and there were the 90s, both decades that were marked forever by one single band, making not only thrash metal, but rock history in general. In the 80s when I begun […]
25th August 2008
Volbeat have put the Danish metal scene on fire with their eminent bland of metal and rock ‘n’ roll on their 2005 debut album The Strength / The Sound / The Songs. Already a year […]
15th July 2008
The CD started and almost instantly a big smile was glued to my face and it stayed there for all the sixteen songs this album includes. New album from the Californian band sees the band […]
7th July 2008
It has been eight years since the last Mötley Crüe album and eleven years since the original members recorded an studio album together. This alone is enough to get the press and fans boiling with […]
1st July 2008
Lȧȧz Rockit is one of those bands that was part of that revolutionary Bay Area movement, but band broke up back in 1992 and after 13 years of silence they got back together in 2005 […]
15th May 2008
For two decades now Paradise Lost have been one of the most important names in the gothic metal scene and now they celebrate their twenty year anniversary with the release of their first live CD […]
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, […]
27th August 2018
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, […]
26th August 2018
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 […]
23rd August 2018
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 […]
17th August 2018
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 […]
11th August 2018
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 […]
7th August 2018
Leaving The Land is the second full-length album by Finnish prog rock four-piece, Sisare (originally formed in 2008). The album was released earlier this year, exploring the universe from multiple different perspectives on these six […]
6th August 2018
I remember one cold autumn weekend four years ago where a friend and I had travelled to Leeds on order to attend a one-day festival with a particularly great line-up. At the time I did […]
31st July 2018
Almost 13 years have passed since the release of the last System Of A Down album and even thou the band has been touring for years now, there are no plans for releasing new music. […]
28th July 2018
Greedy Capitalist is a fairly new band in the world – As far as I can tell, they were founded a little over a year ago in Greece. In the time that has passed, the […]
26th July 2018
In a way it shouldn’t work. It should just be tacky. And tacky it is. Tacky it has always been. But like handful of other power metal acts who basically overdo it, the German Powerwolf […]
