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Review: Maestitium “Tale of the Endless” [Black Lion Records]

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...

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Review: Sirenia “Riddles, Ruins & Revelations” [Napalm Records]

“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...

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Review: Six Foot Six “End Of All” [Scarlet Records]

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...

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Review: Persuader “Necromancy” [Frontiers Music]

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...

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Review: Mortal Terror “Bite of the Underdog”

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...

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Review: Imha Tarikat “Sternenberster” [Prophecy Productions / Lupus Lounge]

Imha Tarikat is Turkish for set of destruction. That is the right description of the second record from the black metal duo from Germany. There...

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Review: Heads For The Dead “Into The Red” [Transcending Obscurity Records]

This international act with members of Revel In Flesh, Wombbath, Gorefest, Hail Of Bullets and more knows the right formula for good and hard-hitting death...

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Review: Descend To Acheron “The Transience Of Flesh” [Petrichor]

This Australian death metal band describes themselves as a technical death metal with a slight touch of black metal. In my opinion Descend to Acheron...

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Review: Children of Technology “Written Destiny” [Hells Headbangers]

If you put every heavy metal cliché in an Eppenmayer flask and let everything incubate for 48 hours you will get “Written Destiny” from Children...

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Review: AKHLYS “Melinoë” [Debemur Morti Productions]

Naas Alcameth who you may know from Nightbringer, is known for his dark and nightmare awakening musical creations. AKHLYS is an emotional ride for the...

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Review: And Now The Owls Are Smiling “Dirges” [Clobber Records]

Atmospheric black metal suits my temperament well. And not just one small niche of the genre, but across all its many variations: whether the atmosphere...

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Review: Urkraft “Urkraft” [Narcoleptica Productions]

Permeating in the dark fog, under the full moonlight of the Norwegian sky arises the black metal, one-man band known as ‘Urkraft’. Fronted by one...

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Review: Korpiklaani “Jylhä” [Nuclear Blast]

After three great and a couple of controversial albums, it seems that Finns Korpiklaani reconsidered their music and once again found their sound. Anyway, their...

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Review: Vøidwomb “Altars of Cosmic Devotion” [Iron Bonehead]

Short and sweet, Altars of Cosmic Devotion is the first release from Portugal’s VØIDWOMB, and what a promising EP it is. Tension is something of...

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Review: StarGazer “Psychic Secretions” [Nuclear War Now! Productions]

The Australian extreme avant-garde formation StarGazer has returned with their fifth full-length album “Psychic Secretions” through the Nuclear War Now! Productions. And that’s a significant...

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Review: Alpha Boys “Saviours Of Rock ‘N’ Roll” [Sliptrick records]

The bad boys from Sweden Alpha Boys have confidently flooded the rock ’n’ roll scene, presenting their debut album “Saviours of Rock ’n’ Roll” via...

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Review: Worm Shepherd “In The Wake Ov Sòl”

We begin here in instrumental that converges into the heavy bringing on a haunting feeling and depressive overtones that continues thrusting the blades deeper into...

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Review: Sintax “Nano 3000” [Sliptrick Records]

In 2015 Israeli Thrash/Groove Metal band Sintax released their debut album Sway For A Better Day. It gained a lot of fans’ attention and got...

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Review: Accept “Too Mean To Die” [Nuclear Blast]

Four years after the release of Rise Of Chaos and with another line-up changes Teutonic Heavy legends Accept are back with their new, 16th album...

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Review: SKAM “The Sound of Disease” [Petrichor]

Is it grindcore? Is it brutal/black/death metal? Is it empathetic or a cry for help? Either way, the Swedish one-man project comes at us full-pelt...