This year wasn’t too productive for the new black/death metal band Sorrow Enthroned from American Connecticut; there’s only one EP The Grave of Endless Writhing as compared to ...
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Sometimes you just need to take a break in order to recharge your creativity. Such was with the case with Riot V, as their two post-Speranza albums weren’t ...
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Comments Off on Review: Riot V “Thundersteel” [CBS]
On paper, Czech black metal might be an ideal style for people who struggle to get into the harsh sound that we’ve come to associate with Norway and ...
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Comments Off on Review: Master’s Hammer “Ritual” [Monitor]
There is a belief in my country that it’s better not to start a new year with the debts from the previous one, so it’s time to pay ...
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Comments Off on Review: Endernity “Disrupted Innocence” [On Fire Records]
Here’s a gloomy World War First-themed black/death metal album that has its moments but isn’t well-made or long enough to make a big impact. Most tracks begin or ...
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Comments Off on Review: Kanonenfieber “Menschenmühle” [Noisebringer Records]
This summer Wolfmond Production has released sophomore release The Gold of the Aura of solo project of Ravendust from Switzerland, offering bolder ideas apart from his more classical ...
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This year Paragon Records / Grimm Distribution / More Hate has re-released from Old Souls Collective last year’s LP Cold Dead Lands of American melodic doom/death metal band ...
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Comments Off on Review: Grey Skies Fallen “Cold Dead Lands” [Paragon Records / Grimm Distribution / More Hate]
Often lumped together with Varathron and Rotting Christ, Necromantia were another important band of the Greek black metal scene. Of course, each of these bands had their own ...
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Comments Off on Review: Necromantia “Scarlet Evil Witching Black” [Osmose Productions]
Remember when the authorities made it official that UFOs existed? Probably because they landed in Sweden in Peters backyard in Ludvika and told him to get off his ...
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Comments Off on Review: Hypocrisy “Worship” [Nuclear Blast]
Here is a nice rocking album with all sorts of promising ideas and interesting stories. The album is somewhere between rock and metal, with some interesting experimentations in ...
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The Hellenic Drakon Rises… Although Drakon Ho Megas have only been formed about a year ago, they surely don’t sound like a bunch of amateurs worshiping at the ...
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The Danish Volbeat play their mix of Metal, Psychobilly and Punk ‘N’ Roll since 2001 and they do it great. Just look on a list of their awards ...
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Comments Off on Review: Volbeat “Servant Of The Mind” [Republic Records]
Sometimes bands do the unthinkable and Cloven Hoof is certainly one of the bands that fall into this category. They started out as a NWOBHM band and as ...
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Comments Off on Review: Cloven Hoof “Dominator” [Heavy Metal Records]
There was only three-year gap between the previous LP of Pyrexia and their new creation Gravitas Maximus, which will be released in December by deathcore/death metal label Unique ...
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Here is a band working through their sorrows and difficult emotions with the help of a tortured doom metal album, and with rather musically enjoyable results. The overall ...
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Comments Off on Review: Funeral “Praesentialis in Aeternum” [Season of Mist]
If there was ever a band that needed a comeback, it was GWAR. After the bloated Carnival of Chaos and the horrid disaster of We Kill Everything, GWAR’s ...
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Comments Off on Review: Gwar “Violence Has Arrived” [Metal Blade Records]
With shiny diamonds and tarnished gold comes bittersweet emotions… I got into Idle Hands around the release of their debut album Mana back in 2019 via the traits ...
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Comments Off on Review: Unto Others ”Strength” [Roadrunner Records]
There are good times for Century Media and Swedish melodic death/black legends Unanimated, after re-releasing all their LPs, Unanimated finally granted the pleas of many fans in releasing ...
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Comments Off on Review: Unanimated “Victory in Blood” [Century Media Records]
In late November Debemur Morti Productions have released fifth studio album Worship The Eternal Darkness of Finnish black/death metal legends Archgoat. So, 40 minutes of absolute purity of ...
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Comments Off on Review: Archgoat “Worship The Eternal Darkness” [Debemur Morti Productions]
Here is an interesting album with a mix of almost all genres of popular music and themes of survival in a broken world. It’s pretty good if you’re ...
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Comments Off on Review: Dr. Schafausen “Waiting For Tomorrow” [Sliptrick Records]
