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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Comments Off on Review: Astralvm “Awakening”
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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Comments Off on Review: Szary Wilk “Wrath” [Putrid Cult]
This heavy and power metal album with symphonic influences has some good ideas, some slightly more disposable songs, but always some interesting vocal work. The first track, Dark ...
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Comments Off on Review: Hevilan “Symphony of Good and Evil” [Brutal Records]
Ah!! Finally some thrash music to listen, moreover a non-European band which comes straight from lands of the maple syrup. Cathartic Demise hails from Kitchener, a town located ...
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Falling between the grim Scorn Defeat and the even stranger, mania of Hail Horror Hail, Infidel Art sees Sigh heading into a theatrical direction that had not been explored before. Now I’m not ...
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Comments Off on Review: Sigh “Infidel Art” [Cacophonous Records]
Third album from Greece’s Caedes Cruenta brings us over an hour of manic macabre metal to upset the neighbours with. Eerie samples, moody synths, melodious riffs, scorching solos, ...
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Comments Off on Review: Caedes Cruenta “Of Ritual Necrophagia and Mysterious Ghoul Cults” [Helter Skelter / Regain Records]
Yesterday evening at midnight, everything was ready for the big weekly incantation, for a very Black Metal evening. I had received an EP “Nihil Sacrum” from the Danish band ...
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Comments Off on Review: Lotan “Nihil sacrum” [Uprising!]
Here is one confused and confusing EP. This is the kind of record where a wild bunch of different ideas are all thrown one after the other and ...
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Comments Off on Review: Amoriello “Dear Dark” [Sliptrick records]
After a couple of singles three years ago Polish death metalheads Chainsword joined the forces with local extreme label Godz ov War Productions to release their first ever ...
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Comments Off on Review: Chainsword “Blightmarch” [Godz Ov War Productions]
Ván Records proudly presents the debut full-length album “Eigenheid” from Dutch pagan/heavy metal band Nodfyr, active on the metal scene for ten years now. This 40-minute release is ...
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Fast, furious, fun – that’s Straight Outta Smogtown in 3 words. Carrying the carefree thrash/punk flame of the likes of Anthrax and Suicidal Tendencies, Poland’s Terrordome address the current political climate with their usual ...
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Comments Off on Review: Terrordome “Straight Outta Smogtown” [Selfmadegod Records]
What do we hear in the distance? A war horn through winter and mist! Varang Nord attacks and the world knows the fury of the warriors from the ...
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Comments Off on Review: Varang Nord “Pārķiuņa Uomurs” [Sliptrick records]
”War is hell” William T. Sherman once said. Now the Asgardsrei crew might not have any war experience at all, but I’m sure that they’re aware of this ...
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Their second LP after a 6 year wait, Canada’s death metal trio Fractal Generator return with 9 scathing tracks designed to unsettle and stimulate in equal measure. Macrocosmos starts with some ...
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Comments Off on Review: Fractal Generator “Macrocosmos” [Everlasting Spew Records]
The Finnish Werewolf Records, well-known for their black metal collaborations, this February has released the Split of two local bands – Druadan Forest and Old Sorcery, where every ...
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After a couple of releases with Relapse Records the Canadian-Swedish formation Culted has joined forces with the label Season of Mist, and this February was published their full-length ...
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