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Review: Possessed “Revelation Of Oblivion” [Nuclear Blast Records]

How can you call a band that releases a new album after 30 years recess? Resurrected? Revenant? Or this comeback happens because of more mundane...

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Review: Battle Beast “No More Hollywood Endings” [Nuclear Blast Records]

Four years passed since Anton Kabanen and Battle Beast parted their ways. During this time Anton released two great albums with his band Beast In...

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Review: Forever Still “Breathe In Colours” [Nuclear Blast Records]

There are lots of female fronted bands nowadays and that’s good. The bad thing is that 70 percent of them are similar to each other,...

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Review: Grand Magus “Wolf God” [Nuclear Blast Records]

Since the release of their very first album, Grand Magus gained attention of many metalheads. And with every next release their fanbase became larger and...

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Review: Eluveitie “Ategnatos” [Nuclear Blast Records]

In 2016, during the work on Evocation II: Pantheon, three members of Eluveitie leave the band. One of them was Anna Murphy, female vocals and...

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Exclusive premiere: Blackdraft “Out To The Open Sea”

The single “Out to the Open Sea” is the fifth chapter from current concept-album The Quest. This song describes the journey out on the rough...

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Review: Iron Savior “Kill Or Get Killed” [AFM Records]

German metalers, sci-fi lovers and simply good musicians Iron Savior release their 12-th album with awesome name Kill Or Get Killed. What’s inside is also...

Interview: Kobi Farhi (Orphaned Land)

Credit: Zohar Ron Their music is an incredible oriental ornament, composed of technically complex metal parts and delicate Arabic lace. It’s like bittersweet coffee with...

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Exclusive premiere: Meridian “Second Best” (Official Music Video)

Danish melodic metal band MERIDIAN are releasing the single “Second Best” from their upcoming new album Margin Of Error. “Second Best” is a upbeat hard-rocking...

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Review: In Flames “I, The Mask” [Nuclear Blast Records]

It’s been a long time since slamming In Flames became good rule; for mainstream sound, back off their roots and all that stuff. But, as...

Exclusive premiere: Oculum Dei “Dreams of Desire and Torment”

Hailing from the ashes of Charlotte, USA’s darker side comes forth the blackened death trio, Oculum Dei. Mixing different elements and influences of black metal,...

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Review: Rhapsody Of Fire “The Eighth Mountain” [AFM Records]

2010s aren’t easy years for Rhapsody Of Fire: almost every member systematically leaved the band. Meanwhile, the band’s founder Alex Staropoli renew the line-up and...

Interview: Anton Kabanen (Beast In Black)

Music can be endlessly divided for genres and sub-genres, there will always be arguing about techniques, “true/fake” and all this stuff. But in the end...

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Review: Evergrey “The Atlantic” [AFM records]

Since 1995 Evergrey shows the dark side of Progressive Metal. Fear, paranoia, death, mourning, shame – all these somber feelings and thoughts were in their...

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Review: Furor Gallico “Dusk Of The Ages” [Scarlet Records]

Mixing different genres is not something new, but a quite hard task. Italians Furor Gallico play their mix of Death Metal and Celtic Folk since...

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Review: Flotsam and Jetsam “The End Of Chaos” [AFM Records]

Christofer Johnsson once said: “In a fair world they would be platinum selling”. Actually, he talked about Voivod, but this this statement can be easily...

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Review: Arch Enemy “Covered In Blood” [Century Media Records]

Bands always played covers. It can be a tribute, some kind of starting point for a band, anything you want. Arch Enemy isn’t an exception:...

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Review: Delfinia “Deep Elevation”

Konstantin and Daria Naumenko are well-known persons in Ukrainian metal: they both play in Power Metal band Sunrise. Daria also has her own project called...

Interview video: Sakis Tolis of Rotting Christ

In October Rotting Christ performed in Tel Aviv, so we had an opportunity to talk to the band’s founder and frontman Sakis Tolis. A little...

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Review: Dragonlord “Dominion” [Spinefarm Records]

After long 13-years lull Testament guitarist Eric Peterson found some strength, time and release the long waited third album of his side project Dragonlord –...