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Review: Hyperia “Insanitorium” [Sliptrick Records]

There are not so much female fronted Thrash Metal bands. Somehow, historically, girls go to Symphonic Metal or straight to some extreme genres but for...

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Review: Rat King “Vicious Inhumanity” [Within The Mind Records]

Sometimes it happens when you find something horrid at first glance but somehow you can’t take your eyes of it? And the more you look...

Interview: Timo Rotten from OCEANS

Oceans is the loudest debut in starting 2020 so far. A week ago their debut album The Sun And The Cold was released. When I...

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Review: Victorius “Space Ninjas From Hell” [Napalm Records]

Some say that Power Metal is dying, like it’s outdated and isn’t interesting for no one. Nevertheless, Sabaton and Powerwolf are pretty good with regular...

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Review: Pripjat/Hell:On “A Glimpse Beyond” [The Crawling Chaos Records]

It often happens that I lose a sight of some really good or for some reason important releases, as always. Split album called A Glimpse...

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Review: Oceans “The Sun And The Cold” [Nuclear Blast Records]

Whether we want it or not, we’re living in postmodern era: looks like everything was already invented before and the only thing that left is...

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Review: Rage “Wings Of Rage” [Steamhammer/SPV]

For the 35 years of existence Rage have been through many things: rises and falls, line-up changes and sound experiments – I think there is...

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Review: Deface “Blatant Denial” [Metal Scrap Records]

Israeli Groove/Death Metal band Deface formed in 2002 but the debut album they release only this year. Of course, many will ask a reasonable question:...

Interview video: Amorphis

On December, 11-th 2019 Amorphis came to Israel for the second time with their beautiful album Queen Of Time. We had a small talk with...

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Review: Avalanche “Sent From Hell” [Sliptrick Records]

You know how it is: sometimes you have an album and for some reason you put it aside. But then you turn it on and...

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Review: Avatarium “The Fire I Long For” [Nuclear Blast Records]

Doom Metal is quite diverse genre with apparent narrowness of its frame. Here can be found a place for the deepest darkness, heaviness and many...

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Hellfest 2020: huge bands update. Sold out.

Hellfest announced the almost complete three days line-up. To name a few: Judas Priest, Messuggah, System Of A Down, Korn, Opeth, Mayhem, Obituary, Doro, The...

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Review: Strident “March Of Plague” [Punishment 18 Records]

Israeli metal scene, despite it is small and neglected, still alive and quite various: there are many Black Metal bands with some original views on...

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Review: Sodom “Out Of The Frontline Trench” [Steamhammer/SPV]

Seems that Uncle Tom Angelripper isn’t going to stop the war machine named Sodom. After another line-up change the band works on their new album....

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Review: Cyhra “No Halos In Hell” [Nuclear Blast]

Cyhra, which can be considered as a “superband”, formed in 2016. Next year, 2017 their debut album Letters To Myself was released and now, two...

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Review: Quiet Riot “Hollywood Cowboys” [Frontiers Music srl]

The passing 2019 was a year of many releases from old honored bands. Few days ago Pretty Maids‘ new album was released and in the...

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Review: Pretty Maids “Undress Your Madness” [Frontiers Music srl]

Pretty Maids‘ history is the history of rising, falling and rising again. Though, if melodic Heavy and Hard Rock were trendy in 80s (the first...

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Review: Agnostic Front “Get Loud!” [Nuclear Blast]

Fathers (or, maybe, grandfathers) of NYHC Agnostic Front have something to say about things that happen in their country and the whole world again. And...

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Review: Blind Guardian Twilight Orchestra “Legacy Of The Dark Lands” [Nuclear Blast Records]

It is never long that comes at last. In case of Blind Guardian it was really long, 23 years to be exact. In 1996 the...

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Review: The Dark Element “Songs The Night Sings” [Frontiers Music srl]

Two years ago The Dark Element‘s debut self-titled album was released. Honestly, I took this band, with former Sonata Arctica‘s guitarist Jani Liimatainen and Anette...