At the end of last year Odium Records have released new split Kirkegard between two Norwegian black metal bands Kirkebrann and Visegard. Actually, this is...
Polish doom/death metal band Black Blood of the Earth finally has released their debut album Bleak Light, Fervent Dark through underground metal label Art of...
Let’s have one more trip through Imperial Triumphant’s mix of metal, jazz and weirdness. This new offering manages to be both different from their previous...
The term progressive metal might have lost its clear meaning at this point, but once upon a time, there was a good chance that anything...
Lacrimas Profundere’s story isn’t an unfamiliar one; as they were yet one of those bands that ended up exchanging their melodic doom/death metal roots for...
Krisiun are back to kick our asses with a loud, heavy and powerful album, with a set of nice but somewhat uneven song. Let’s look...
By the late 90’s, the better known doom/death metal bands had abandoned the paths of doom and while this must have been a disappointing period...
The view from the top remains unclouded Two years ago I wrote a scathing review about how immensely pitiful the 2020 EP version of this...
After eight years of silence mad Italian thrashers Evilspell have returned with their third full-length album Padre Vostro, making it even more Satanic and violent....
Covid-19 pandemic made a good favor for musical bands, giving them enough time to compose and to record more material. Hex A.D. always was an...
Whereas Thundersteel had put Riot back on the map with its unexpected take on speed/power metal, The Privilege of Power sounds much more confused and basically can be divided...
What a troubled, mystical and unclassifiable album. But there is definitely something special about its strange moods and melancholy. It’s hard to classify in the...
A Testimonial Teufelswerk for Modern Austrian Extreme Metal Following up their pretty impressive return to form in 2017’s Totenritual with a more than adequately satisfying...
Here is one pretty fun witch hunt and witchcraft-themed album, which doesn’t always have the most interesting or memorable music but does have its moments....
After four years of silence Austrian MDM band Croword has returned with a new EP Crimson Gaze, releasing it via NRT-Records. The band is rather...
In early autumn of 2021 traditional metal band from Wales Hunted has returned after more than ten years of silence with a brand new album...
I’m not extremely familiar with Symphony X, but most of what I’ve heard from them so far sounds appealing enough, yet I’m a bit surprised...
Once Fates Warning entered the 90’s, it seemed that the band had lost their magic forever. Parallels saw the band heading into progressive rock territory and resulted...
This is some highly energized blackened death metal. Not necessarily the most interesting take on the subgenre you’ll ever hear, but it still packs a...
Long before Savatage turned into a pretentious rock opera band, they were one of the earliest examples of bands playing power metal in the American...