Sergio Leone disagrees. Well, what a premise! After reading about the upcoming Spiritworld record and its Wild West-influenced style and theme, I could hardly await...
VILE NILOTIC RITES Europe tour touched Seville last Friday night and made it special for Seville’s metal crowd as they had a chance to observe...
While it’s good to hear more from Oceans and their Hell is Where the Heart Is project, the full album version is certainly interesting, but...
So what happened to death metal? That’s not meant to be sneering or derisive, but it feels like the most concise way to describe my...
The Era of…Hades Rising Finally, after what felt like a decade of near-silence, Thou Art Lord returns with this little EP to please fans of...
Considering how radical it can result, it is uncommon to see transitions from death metal to power metal, as in the case of Nocturnal Rites....
Nocturnal Rites‘ sophomore album encapsulates much of the trends that were part of the Euro power metal scene’s golden past. As a result, the album...
There is not much to point out about this album. In general, this is one of the most cheesy and commercial releases, even one of...
As many experts and reviewers have previously stated, a common disease that rock and metal albums have suffered since the 1970s is how the greatest...
The trends of the music industry dictated that bands needed to fit a weird set of standards in order to sell more and more. As...
Scorpions bet this time on a concept that is not new in the heavy metal world, as it was already exploited by Deep Purple in...
In mid spring Brazilian fivesome Abstracted gave birth to their first LP Atma Conflux via M-Theory Audio Records, releasing earlier a couple of singles that...
By the end of June English musician Josh Keech from Bedford has independently released his first official EP Warrior in the Clouds Pt. 1, the...
If you’re involved in the underground Extreme Metal circles, it’s pretty much unavoidable that you’re probably going to come across the myriad of bands that...
Let’s continue the reviews of gothic metal reeditions! This new release of Type O Negative’s last album isn’t as good as Lacuna Coil’s new version...
Winter finally found my home for the first time this year, in the form of freezing temperatures and an inch or so of snow. Despite...
I have no idea what I’m in for when I listen to an album, but what I need to do is remember that I am...
One fascinating aspect that made many thrash metal bands great was their ability to evolve within a style that clearly has its limits. Sodom started...
This has been a tough review to write. I have listened to this album so many times yet am battling to describe it… and not...
Blackened thrash is overall a pretty simple style in execution- it’s practically where black metal as a whole got its start, with the extreme take...