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Review: Saxon – “Hell, Fire and Damnation” [Silver Lining Music]

Our world is volatile and now it staggers from the menace of nuclear war with another world wide pandemic to some tectonic changes in the society. So when ...
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Review: Arcane Tales “Until Where the Northern Lights Reign” [Broken Bones Promotion]

Arcane Tales is an Italian Symphonic Power Metal one man band. I never heard of it up to day, to be honest and there was almost nothing about ...
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Review of Aldaaron “Arcane Mountain Cult” [Paragon Records]

In late autumn of 2022, the French pagan/black metal band Aldaaron finally released their long-awaited album Arcane Mountain Cult via Paragon Records. And although they never officially disbanded, ...
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Review: Burn The Sun “Le Roi Soleil” [Sliptrick Records]

The young Grecian band from Athens Burn the Sun made their mark last year by releasing their debut album Le Roi Soleil via Sliptrick Records. Although the band ...
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Review: Demogorgon “You Are Worthless and I Want You Dead” [Sliptrick Records]

Last summer, the Australian one-man project Demogorgon released its fifth studio album You Are Worthless and I Want You Dead via independent music label Sliptrick Records. Demogorgon is ...
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Gig report: Ne Obliviscaris w/ Beyond Creation & The Omnific | Nov 1 2023 / Calgary, CANADA

You are waiting for an event to happen for so long but when it passes it feels like it was just a second in comparison. This is how ...
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Review: Night Crowned “Tales” [Noble Demon]

In 2020 Night Crowned became probably the biggest new name with their debut longplay Impius Viam. After a year and a half these guys have evolved their ideas ...
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Review: Nemoreus ”Orcunadoras-Chapter Three: Rogue” [Running Wild Productions]

A Comfortable Nap in Hell… Austrian folk metal outfit Nemoreus just released the third part of their Orcunadoras trilogy. I have to admit that I haven’t heard any ...
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Gig report: PAIN, ENSIFERUM, ELEINE and RYUJIN | Zagreb, Croatia

It was definitely one of those nights where there was such an odd mashup of bands that left your head scratching: samurai metal from Japan, symphonic metal from ...
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Review: Withdraw ”Struwwelpeter” [Running Wild Productions]

Grim Tales. Excellent Storytelling. Solid Musicianship… For those who might not be fluent in the tongues of Austrian metal: Withdraw has certainly been on many a radar these ...
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Review: Chorosia “Stray Dogs” [Grazil Records]

A couple of days ago Austrian progressive sludge metal band Chorosia delivered a brand new EP Stray Dogs via Grazil Records and Kvlt und Kaos Productions, focusing once ...
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Review: Steamachine “City of Death”

The last days of August are usually a sad period – the end of summer and all the back to school preparations aren’t exactly what we dream of. ...
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Review: Cannibal Corpse “Chaos Horrific” [Metal Blade Records]

Cannibal Corpse‘s relentless march through the annals of death metal history continues with their latest offering, Chaos Horrific, to be released on September 22nd, 2023. Since their inception ...
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Review: Marduk “Memento Mori” [Century Media Records]

“”Memento Mori” is, all at once, a bold leap forward, a calculated sidestep, and a wistful backward glance. Meaning, we have broken new ground without forgetting our legacy ...
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Review: Ars Moriendi “Lorsque les coeurs s’assechent” [Archaic Sound]

Here’s the piece of dark and tormented melodic black metal I didn’t know I needed. Well, it’s the kind of album that’s by definition hard to classify or ...
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Review: Cyhra “The Vertigo Trigger” [Nuclear Blast]

Here’s a catchy, poppy metal album full of adventures, not always impressive but always enjoyable. This album has a distinctive style, established in the first track, “Ready to ...
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Review: Kataklysm “Goliath” [Nuclear Blast]

Here’s a punchy, heavy album about fighting the power that doesn’t always work but has some good songs, and mostly lots of energy. The theme of the album ...
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Review: Into Dark “I, Glance”

The Polish black metal band Into Dark has returned from oblivion with a brand new record – EP I, glance, releasing it entirely independently in late spring. Six ...
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Review: Molekh “Ritus” [Bent Window Records / Pale Ghoul Recordings]

Underground and indie scene is full of rising stars; some are wading through the thorns, gaining some kind of mainstream influence, but some names are literally too underground ...
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Gig report: Possessed / Bezdan / Serpentslain / Vapor / Stoic Suffering / Matt Miller

This is the second date and pretty much the peak of the summer of Hell that happened in Croatia this year: we got Possessed. For a long time ...
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