Golgotha caught me by surprise, as I’ve never heard anyone mention this band before and they also originate from Spain. Granted, I know very little about Spain to ...
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Nekromantheon created quite a buzz in the early 2010s when they released the two full length albums Divinity in Death and Rise, Vulcan Spectre. I have to admit ...
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Doro has been the undisputed Queen Of Metal since her days as vocalist for Warlock and beyond, and even with her career in music spanning four decades, she ...
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Thanks to that decent piece of artwork that brings to mind nostalgia and romanticism, you’d think that Etherial Winds were yet another forgotten band that released one solid ...
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Comments Off on Review: Etherial Winds “Find the Way… Together” [Cyber Music]
Although Hooded Menace managed to keep the doom/death metal spirit alive while evolving at the same time, this band hasn’t always interested me as much as they do ...
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The late Apex of Warrel Dane‘s career! I can already see the flaming arrows pointing at me from a distance but that doesn’t deter me from showering this ...
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Comments Off on Review: Sanctuary ”The Year The Sun Died” [Avalon Records]
It’s almost tempting to believe that any obscure doom/death metal release from its heyday turns out to be a lost classic, but there’s a lot of good stuff ...
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The Emerald Tablets of Thoth is the most cinematic album I’ve listened to so far this year. Gilded with golden gifts to the gods and adorned with an ...
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Here’s a vicious piece of blackened death/thrash metal, with some interesting ideas but a rather uneven set of songs. This album has an interesting title, and starts with ...
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Comments Off on Review: Expunged “Into Never Shall” [Hells Headbangers Records]
Let’s get in our caravans for a trip through musical worlds. We’ll have a lot of adventures and hear all sorts of musical ideas along the way. From ...
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In far 1990 German Thrash/Power Metal band Paradox released Heresy, a conceptual album about Albigensian Crusade. Now, 31 years later in 2021 here comes the sequel of the ...
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In 2010 the former drummer of Type O Negative and Life Of Agony, Sal Abruscato founded his own band, A Pale Horse Named Death, where he mostly continues ...
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I can’t be the only one who was amazed to hear that Roy Khan and company decided to reform Conception again, especially given the state that Khan had ...
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Although it would take Vicious Rumors three years to release a second album, Digital Dictator would be the definite album of this band and it’s easy to see why. There’s ...
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Think along the lines of maybe, say, Napalm Death (Diatribes) and Cattle Decapitation‘s (To Serve Man), and you have what are probably the two finest death metal/grindcore/thrash bands ...
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After relatively long break the Russian ritual folk band Liholesie has returned with a brand new album Shamanic Twilight, via Infinite Fog Productions, marking it as number six ...
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Young Canadian band Apogean, based in Toronto, this year has produced independently its first ever release – EP Into Madness. And with it they’ve intended to draw the ...
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Let’s be honest here, most of the nowadays “female fronted” metal bands are a generic, run of the mill label product riding the current wave of “Hey, let’s ...
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Stormnatt… a band that I have been aware of, since earlier this year. I never knew that Antimessiah was ever even a part of this band, initially. I ...
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This autumn another British legends release their new album after long period of silence. After eight years Carcass comes back with the new release named Torn Arteries. Unlike ...
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