Why does the combination of witchcraft, heavy metal, doom metal and blues work so well? Anyway, here’s a kick-ass album, with all the best parts of the genres ...
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March 16th is the night when The Swamp felt the iron once again. While we were still recovering from neck aches that Cryptopsy and Atheist gave us, another ...
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There are worse ways to end your Tuesdays, especially for your eardrums. One of those ways was last night’s four tons of death metal by the American band ...
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Comments Off on Gig report: NASTY ABYSS: Cryptopsy, Atheist, Serpentslain, Almost Dead, Monastery: March 5th, 2024
On March 2 took place Bucharest Deathfest 2024 at Quantic Club, one of the best venues in Bucharest, an event organized by Coro and Axa Valaha Productions. It ...
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There is not much known about the band Karkosa: these guys are from Fort Wayne, IN, formed not a long time ago and released their debut EP Harvest ...
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Promising Anthems of an Inevitable Demise… The Age of a Man as an album shows a certain strength that’s already perfectly represented in the opening track: diversity without ...
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I remember when I heard Dust Bolt for the first time: it was in 2016, when they released their Mass Confusion album. Despite there was nothing essentially new, ...
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Our world is volatile and now it staggers from the menace of nuclear war with another world wide pandemic to some tectonic changes in the society. So when ...
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Arcane Tales is an Italian Symphonic Power Metal one man band. I never heard of it up to day, to be honest and there was almost nothing about ...
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In late autumn of 2022, the French pagan/black metal band Aldaaron finally released their long-awaited album Arcane Mountain Cult via Paragon Records. And although they never officially disbanded, ...
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The young Grecian band from Athens Burn the Sun made their mark last year by releasing their debut album Le Roi Soleil via Sliptrick Records. Although the band ...
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Last summer, the Australian one-man project Demogorgon released its fifth studio album You Are Worthless and I Want You Dead via independent music label Sliptrick Records. Demogorgon is ...
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You are waiting for an event to happen for so long but when it passes it feels like it was just a second in comparison. This is how ...
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In 2020 Night Crowned became probably the biggest new name with their debut longplay Impius Viam. After a year and a half these guys have evolved their ideas ...
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A Comfortable Nap in Hell… Austrian folk metal outfit Nemoreus just released the third part of their Orcunadoras trilogy. I have to admit that I haven’t heard any ...
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Comments Off on Review: Nemoreus ”Orcunadoras-Chapter Three: Rogue” [Running Wild Productions]
It was definitely one of those nights where there was such an odd mashup of bands that left your head scratching: samurai metal from Japan, symphonic metal from ...
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Comments Off on Gig report: PAIN, ENSIFERUM, ELEINE and RYUJIN | Zagreb, Croatia
Grim Tales. Excellent Storytelling. Solid Musicianship… For those who might not be fluent in the tongues of Austrian metal: Withdraw has certainly been on many a radar these ...
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A couple of days ago Austrian progressive sludge metal band Chorosia delivered a brand new EP Stray Dogs via Grazil Records and Kvlt und Kaos Productions, focusing once ...
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The last days of August are usually a sad period – the end of summer and all the back to school preparations aren’t exactly what we dream of. ...
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Cannibal Corpse‘s relentless march through the annals of death metal history continues with their latest offering, Chaos Horrific, to be released on September 22nd, 2023. Since their inception ...
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