As moody and pensive as the ex your mother never liked, Dortmund’s Grabunhold impress with their first full-length, Heldentod, released on Iron Bonehead Productions. It’s black metal, but ...
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If Japanese old school crossover blackened thrash metal is your thing, then Possessed by Evil by, yep, Evil, might just be up your alley. Sounding like the offspring of Venom and Sodom if it were ...
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Here is a nice, gory, horror-themed death metal album. Expect a lot of heaviness, brutal themes and a lot of evil fun. First, you have a strange, haunting ...
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This EP may be a ‘companion piece’ to Zebadiah Crowe’s last release, the remix mini-album The Cloven Hand, but that doesn’t mean Lych Milk isn’t strong enough to ...
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A band: HOGSTUL, a brain: Kjetil Ytterhus, also keyboardist with PROFANE BURIAL, an album: “Ominous Fragmenta Tuptdalr“. Three long tracks including an eponymous one: “A Nightmare at 40 ...
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Country of Portugal is well known for having metal bands that does not follow the norm in traditional metal, having in mind their most famous band Moonspell everything ...
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The Chilean thrashers Demoniac have returned this year with a brand new album “So It goes” after three years of silence (apart from the Live record year ago), ...
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After six years of silence, Egyptian born musician Nader Sadek has returned with a string of singles, and in the end of November has finally presented something more ...
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Recently the Italian heavy metal band Under Attack has released their debut album “Virus Alert” through the Sliptrick Records, defining their first musical journey in a pure classical ...
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The idea of a progressive metal band that has more emphasis on adventurous arrangements than downright riffs sounds terrible on paper – fortunately this is where Payne’s Gray ...
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Let’s explore these melancholic and atmospheric ballads by a cold, sad day of winter. For this is the best way to describe the overall feel of the album. ...
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Clearly if you do not know what pure original Norwegian black metal is and you are eager to learn about it, one priest: MYRHOLT, one gospel: “Sjelebot”!!! Right ...
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A sweet-sounding technical thrash fest, Empyrean hits us full force from the first second as Sweden’s Paranorm release their first full-length album after a 7-year absence since 2014’s ...
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Another great release from Indian label Transcending Obscurity, France’s The Scalar Process launch themselves into the technical death metal genre with a monster of a first release in ...
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It’s your best friend’s birthday and you don’t know what gift to choose for him, don’t hesitate, make him discover this EP “Degradation Of Human Consciousness” by the ...
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What could be better than listening to a good melodic death metal album after a hard day’s work? Nothing at all, especially after talking to Maestitium leader Elias ...
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“A modern ride straight into the heart of symphonic metal!” – that’s how Sirenia‘s tenth album Riddles, Ruins & Revelations press release starts. Intriguing, isn’t it? To tell ...
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Yes, you have read everything correctly. The name is Six Foot Six, not Six Feet Under. And no, we are not talking about groovy death metal, we are ...
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Power metal from Germany has influenced a lot of bands over the years. The Swedish Persuader doesn’t make an exception. On “Necromancy” you can clearly hear the spirit ...
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The mid-tempo thrash metal from Germany strikes since 1986. Their debut “The Evolving Self” was released in 1994. With “Bite of the Underdog” Mortal Terror presents their sixth ...
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