How often do bands become better after taking a ten year gap between their debut and their follow up? Yeah, not many, but sci-fi geeks Exises were a ...
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The Body is a band that I have been enjoying since their 2018 album “I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer”. Though I haven’t had ...
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The Portugal experimental blacksters Monte Penumbra have returned this March with a new creation “As Blades in the Firmament”, more and more descending into deep murky waters of ...
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This March the German metal stars Orden Ogan have released their seventh full-length album “Final Days”, based more on dark sci-fi themes during these apocalyptic times. And once ...
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This is an album with a few good ideas, even though it’s overall not that special. It’s a nice blend of black and thrash metal that’s somewhat enjoyable ...
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Way too good to be black metal, not quite heavy enough to death metal, it’s the melodic and melancholy Arquetipo from Chile’s Montuln. Chilean metal hasn’t seen much ...
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In Switzerland, we have: the banking system, the cows (usually black & white), the Milka chocolate, Ovomaltine, the “Grasshopers” at Zürich, some famous headquarters of international organizations and ...
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Comments Off on Review: Distant Past “The Final Stage” [Pure Steel Records]
Non Cogitant sed Tamen Sunt is an album that if ever given the opportunity, I’m sure I would be able to write so much more about it that ...
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Comments Off on Review: Vicarivs Filii Dei “Non Cogitant sed Tamen Sunt” [Darker than Black Records]
If my review of Index Librorum Prohibitorum seems out of place in parts, it’s only due to the fact that I had listened to Vicarivs Filii Dei‘s second ...
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The experimental black metal scene this year can heave a sigh of release, the new Grecian band Zaratus has worked hard, presenting this blend of modern and classical ...
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On March 12th, the Colorado-based band Necropanther has released independently their latest EP “In Depths We sleep”, which this time belongs to their guitarist Paul Anop. Between the ...
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Between the mediocre debut and Anthem‘s final record that would feature Eizo Sakamoto for a while, this band would keep getting better and better, as Bound to Break is yet ...
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Totale Vernichtung… Feuerbestattung… This album, in its entirety is the epitome of all that is held dear, and beautiful. Feuerbestattung is an album that from beginning to end ...
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I have so many thoughts, feelings, and emotions about Feuer und Krieg when listening to it. This album, in its entirety, is such an exquisite beginning to the ...
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I want to make something perfectly clear in this review. Antimessiah / Totale Vernichtung is a true gift that has been graced upon this world. His immaculate vocal ...
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I’m really excited to be writing this review, as Torches Behind the Waterfall was my 2020 album of the year release. The first track “The Second Enantiodromia” is ...
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Comments Off on Review: Zebulon Kosted “Torches Behind The Waterfall” [Hammerkrieg Productions]
The United States of America are synonymous with freedom for many, it is also the lands of the Big Four. However by dint of aging and remaining on ...
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A cosmic journey through space and time… As I am writing this review, it’s not often that I listen to older material before listening to newer material; as ...
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What do we know about Chile, this South American country stuck between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes Cordillera? Not much! Oh sure, Allende or Pinochet remind something ...
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Comments Off on Review: FØG “La niebla de las ánimas” [Australis records]
In the land of Solidarnosc, Metal music is king: Vader, Decapitated and for Black metal in all its forms: Behemoth, Batushka, Mgla, Darzamat as well as a multitude ...
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