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Review: Vrag – Rendületlenül [Filosofem Records]

A year ago, Hungarian multi-instrumentalist Roland Neubauer returned with his black metal project Vrag, releasing the fourth full-length album Rendületlenül through the local label Filosofem...

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Review: Peacemaker – Internal Revolution

A year ago, the Polish hardcore band Peacemaker released their sophomore full-length album Internal Revolution completely independently, a staggering 23 years after their debut Different...

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Review: 1914 “Viribus Unitis” [Napalm Records]

Ukrainians 1914 release their fourth album and this fact commands respect if not delight. For almost four years this country heroically fights against russian hordes,...

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Review: Scarecrow NWA ”IX” [Running Wild Productions]

Standing out from the crowd… My ne-science concerning Austria’s melodic death metal outfit Scarecrow NWA is a little bit embarrassing. Why? Because they present their...

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Review: Testament “Para Bellum” [Nuclear Blast Records]

For some reason I wasn’t following Testament since 2016, when Brotherhood Of The Snake was released. Since then Titans Of The Creation was released at...

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Report: Metal Gates Festival 2025

Another edition of Metal Gates festival, which kicked off on Thursday, September 25th, at Quantic Club, with a warm-up concert, as let’s call it day...

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Review: Silius “Beneath the Flesh” [Running Wild Productions]

Austrian Thrash is Alive and Well… Until recently, I had no idea who these guys were. Thanks to my ongoing investigation duties deep into Austria’s...

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This Week’s Picks – Sept 26, 2025

Welcome to this week’s global shitshow. Wall Street’s jerking everyone around like a drunk at a blackjack table, Congress can’t get off its ass long...

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Nasty Abyss: Left to Die & Vaktal, 22.09.2025., Zagreb, CRO

Similar to the event when Possessed graced us with their presence and raped our ears a few years ago, this is also one of those...

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Review: Amorphis “Borderland” [Reigning Phoenix Music]

There is a lot of good albums but it’s never enough, so when a good album is released, it is always a big thing. When...

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This Week’s Picks – Sept 19, 2025

Hey from still-scorching Arizona! Week two of This Week’s Picks lands right as French streets erupt, Brussels debates climate targets it won’t meet, and the...

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Review: Paradise Lost “Ascention” [Nuclear Blast Records]

Do I really need to tell something about Paradise Lost? No, not really. I believe, anyone, somehow involved in heavy music, listened to this band...

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This Week’s Picks – Sept 12, 2025

Hey from hot Arizona! This is the first “This Week’s Picks”! The plan is to do it (or at least try to) every week, sharing...

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Review: KRYPTA “Krypta”

At the very end of last autumn, a Ukrainian gothic/doom band from Kyiv released their first self-titled album Krypta without the help of any labels....

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Review: Antipope “Doors of the Dead” [Moribund Records]

At the end of October last year, the Finnish traditional metal band Antipope released their latest album Doors of the Dead through the iconic American...

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Review: Labyrinthus Stellarum “Rift in Reality” [Archivist Records]

How about a trip through space, to some industrial black metal? Something that sounds catchy, yet deep and dark as the cosmos, with a sometimes...

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Review: The Orphaned Bee “Thinking Without Language” [Bird’s Robe Records]

I remember back a couple of months ago, catching The Orphaned Bee‘s – Thinking Without Language EP on YouTube… the image on the cover… a...

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Review: Draugaskógur “Fullmoon Hypnotic Ritual” [Inferna Profundus Records]

I find this new offering somewhat difficult to review. You know, the prospects are loud and clear; a certain Varg Vikernes influence still rears its...

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Review: Barshasketh “Antinomian Asceticism” [World Terror Committee]

The concept of Antinomianism is an ages olde rebuttal to the notion that religious people – namely Christians – are required to live by an...

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Review: Ancestor of Kaos – Animal Ritual [Horror Pain Gore Death Productions]

This is a fast, threatening wild beast, not always the most memorable album you’ve ever heard, but one with undeniable energy. We get a great...