It’s hardly normal for a thrash band to start an album with 85 seconds of arpeggio plucking coming through a phaser, but then Insect Politics is hardly the usual thrash ...
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Indian label Transcending Obscurity show off their new toy with their first full-length album in 16 years – it’s been worth the wait. Despite their relatively long run in the ...
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Comments Off on Review: Revulsion “Revulsion” [Transcending Obscurity Records]
According to Wikipedia, “Ophiuchus is a 13th large constellation straddling the celestial equator. Its name is from the Greek Ὀφιοῦχος (Ophioukhos, serpent-bearer)”. It is also reflected in astrology: ...
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Comments Off on Review: Dark Zodiak “Ophiuchus” [Self Release]
The second LP from California’s classic hard rock rompers Pounder takes us back in time for cheesy fist-pumping riffs reminiscent of bands your dad grew out of when ...
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Antwerp/Portland’s black metal multi-instrumentalist returns with her first full-length album since starting out with 2018’s promising EP Ascending the Raven Stone. In true black metal fashion, earthy growls, ...
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Comments Off on Review: Hulder “Godslastering Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry” [Iron Bonehead]
Thron’s impressive run in blackened melodic death metal continues with their third LP in 6 years. A bestial release that shows off their colours – feral vocals, sophisticated drumming, ...
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In Sahrartu, Belarus’ Eximperitus offer comfort from the cold weather with warming riffs, red-hot drumming, and a reassuring blanket of melody. Riffs that snarl slowly back up ethereal drone solos Jerry ...
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Comments Off on Review: Eximperitus “Šahrartu” [Willowtip Records]
In the summer of 2019, the Canadian mysterious one-man band (actually female) Rvbber VVitch has released independently their first record “Mastvrbations Malveillantes MMXVII”. But in the beginning of ...
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At the end of last year Austrian gothic/heavy metal one-man project of Marko Köfler Adder’s Fork independently has released their latest EP “The Fatalist”. This is a smooth ...
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I’d rather bathe somewhere else… I still can’t believe what this album did to me. Amidst a steady stream of writing motivation I had requested this new Oceans ...
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Comments Off on Review: Oceans Of Slumber ”Oceans Of Slumber” [Century Media Records]
Three years ago, in January 2018 Therion released their ambitious three-hour long Metal opera Beloved Antichrist. When the following world tour came to its end, Christopher Johnsson, according ...
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Comments Off on Review: Therion “Leviathan” [Nuclear Blast]
Last year was, let’s say it gently, disgusting for all of us but for Nervosa it was crucial: in spring 2020 Fernanda Lira and Luana Dametto leaved the ...
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Valravn is a Finnish black metal band formed in 2016. On 4 December 2020, their first album “Prey” was officially released. It features sounds typical of the genre, ...
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Generation Steel is a very fresh band, formed not a long time ago, in 2019. Nevertheless, these guys were able to gain attention of Accept‘s guitarist Uwe Lulis, ...
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Comments Off on Review: Generation Steel “The Eagle Will Rise” [Pure Steel Records]
I am definitely convinced that right now is a really good time for apocalyptic-themed thrash metal. I also think this album is among the best examples of that ...
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Comments Off on Review: Angelus Apatrida “Angelus Apatrida” [Century Media Records]
Although I wasn’t listening to Bolt Thrower (or metal for that matter) by the time Those Once Loyal came out yet, I’m rather surprised by the amount of praise that ...
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Comments Off on Review: Bolt Thrower “Those Once Loyal” [Metal Blade Records]
One long-format song, a ritualistic paean to the Mayan sun god, Kinich Ahau, set to an organically shifting, amorphous black metal soundtrack. This is the technical description for ...
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Perhaps Anthem were trying to gain (more) commercial success here, or perhaps they felt like relying more on the vocals than usual, but Gypsy Ways is the oddball in the ...
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The industrial metal formation Dusk, hailing from Costa-Rica has started this year with a new dark and noisy journey, presenting their second full-length album “The Hermit”, without signing ...
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In the end of January the music label Edge Circle Productions will release the first EP “Midnight Vampire” from the young Brazilian band Speedkiller, offering almost half an ...
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