Like an ugly, yet captivating painting that somehow manages to capture’s one attention, Rain upon the Impure is one of those things that could only fall under the category of ...
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I’m not sure why, but I can’t help but think that Metal Church’s later period has been rather overlooked. A shame, really, as I’ve recently dived into the ...
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While I’ll clearly call myself a Paradise Lost fan, Drown in Darkness – The Early Demos wasn’t something I was necessarily looking forward to. Lost Paradise still ranks as the worst ...
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This band describe their music as “tortured blackened death metal”, and indeed, this is a great way to describe this eerie, heavy, strange and experimental album. So get ...
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When we’re talking about doom/death metal bands, it goes without saying that the early incantations of such are what it’s usually all about. Lost Paradise hints very little about the ...
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Comments Off on Review: Paradise Lost “Lost Paradise” [Peaceville Records]
In the end of July Black Lodge Records have re-released the debut album “Sawken Xo´on” of Chilean black metal band Xalpen. Originally it was released almost year ago ...
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When Candlemass split up in the early 90s bass player and main man Leif Edling felt that he was far from finished with the music, so he put ...
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In the beginning of 2020 Sepultura released their 15th album, brilliant and thoughtful Quadra. Well, who knew that the lyrics from the song “Isolation” will become prophetic – ...
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Since the first Twisted Sister‘s split-up in far 1988, front man Dee Snider remains active and notable: he plays in another bands (Desperado, Widowmaker), participates in Symphonic Heavy ...
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Cryopathic Thanatology is a newly formed death metal project by Karnatorh (guitars, bass & songwriting) and Ossilor (vocals) or by their own words: „A death metal project formed ...
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Last year I listened to an international project Chaos Over Cosmos for the first time and it impressed me a lot: two guys that live on the different ...
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What a promising title. And Swallow the Sun deliver on that promise, by performing some of their nicest tracks with gloom and beauty. Some description that might be ...
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Here is a nice little witch’s dance, with demons, ghosts, manitous and other creatures of the night. After a mysterious spoken words and keyboards intro about unleashing all ...
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Comments Off on Review: Decayed “Old Ghosts and Primeval Demons” [Lusitanian Music]
In the middle of June, the debut album of American metalcore band Interloper was released through Nuclear Blast Records, making a very good and vigorous start. These musicians ...
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On 18th June of 2021 the mighty Nuclear Blast Records have released the new album “Aggression Continuum” of legendary Fear Factory, and it is 11th in their 30-year ...
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I mention COVID almost in every review and I fully understand that it bothers the readers, not to mention that I also tired from this but what can ...
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Comments Off on Review: Die Apokalyptischen Reiter “The Divine Horsemen” [Nuclear Blast]
Three years after Where Echoes Gather, the Norwegians return with their sixth album. I wasn’t having high hopes on this one as the two previous albums felt rather ...
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Comments Off on Review: Communic ”Hiding From The World” [AFM Records]
The second EP “Kapitel 2” of Swedish dark/gothic rock band Svarta Sanningar was independently released in late spring. It is a solid sequel of their first record “Kapitel 1” ...
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In the beginning of June American progressive metal band Intentional Trainwreck has released independently their sophomore album “Smokestack of Souls”. And after six years of silence their music ...
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Last year Powerwolf released their compilation Best Of The Blessed as a way to earn some time, maybe money and remind about themselves as well in a lack ...
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