Reviews 2744 articles

The resurgence of Thrash metal in the last decade or so has certainly had a lot of buzz in the metal community, and you could...

If this was the 16th century, I would probably be accused of heresy, convicted and sentenced to death by the end of this review. In...

Certainly much better than the debut! Only a few weeks ago, the Tasmanian-turned-German devil Patrick Schmidt reached out to me – he had just put...

Here is a pop/metal/unclassifiable album that, while it’s not the most memorable album even for that subgenre, is really enjoyable. Once again, you must listen...

Life is pain. In both immeasurable atrocities and mundane disappointments, there is only acceptance that no one gets out alive, no one escapes without scars,...

Good death metal is a lot like a slab of nicely-cooked steak; if you slice it just the right way, you can look across it...

While one-man bands are a dime a dozen in the bedroom black metal space, and similarly strewn about freely in stoner doom metal, for the...

The Scum are just about exactly what you think of when you read “The Scum”. This is ugly, visceral, right-up-in-your-face death metal, with elements of...

Someone may, for some reason, describe Kriemhild to you as death metal. Perhaps you will glean from the band describing themselves as being influenced by...

Stratuz’s Osculum Pacis can be summarized in one sentiment: almost. Their blend of symphonic death-doom with influences of melodic black metal is almost refined; their...

Last October, French black/death/doom metal trio Varechian has returned from five-year-long slumber, presenting their newest album with double title Tabula Rasa Ultima /// The Morbidoom))),...

One year ago, Swedish one-man project Thundermaker has released its third full-length album The Road via Sliptrick Records, once again inviting a bunch of well-known...

Judas Priest‘s debut not only represents the beginning of their career, but also a reinvention in metal music, a response to the heavy metal style...

After various years of releasing demos and an album with Satan, the legendary vocalist Brian Ross finally managed to bring out with this project a...

Saxon‘s third release is definitely their finest hour. While their sophomore effort displayed a lot of potential and climbed high in respect of their debut...

After listening to this album a number of times, I kept hoping to reach a different conclusion so that I could at least offer a...

From Denmark’s Illa, come The Body Keeps the Score. While I have to admit that the group’s debut EP is not of my particular taste,...

Since In Grief’s An Eternity of Misery has recently come out, I decided to revisit the EP that I had heard years ago, but back then had...

Unlike several other countries, Norway’s contribution to the development of doom/death metal has been limited, but that did not mean that the country’s been without...

It’s easy to assume that doom/death metal bands lost it once they had settled for a lighter sound, regardless of the actual outcome. The unfortunate...