During the 1990’s doom/death metal was all over the place in Europe, yet Poland is most likely not one of the countries you’d think of when it comes ...
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Perhaps I’m a bit conservative with my ideas, but if you ask me bands writing more radio friendly material often results into trouble. Not even Fates Warning could ...
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Comments Off on Review: Fates Warning “Parallels” [Metal Blade Records]
Sweden Mindless Sinner have a very meager discography: for almost 40 years of existence, the band released only four albums. The latest one, Poltergeist, was released in the ...
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Comments Off on Review: Mindless Sinner “Master Of Evil” [Pure Steel Records]
The Australian extreme metal band Mongrel’s Cross this year through the label Hells Headbangers has released their third album “Arcana, Scrying and Revelation” after two years of silence. ...
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The Swedish cult death metal band Toxaemia from the 1980s has returned this year with their first ever full-length album “Where Paths Divide” via the Danish label Emanzipation. ...
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Sometimes you stumble upon a unique band that that figuring out their obvious influences results in a massive headache. Enter Dark Millennium, who are a complete oddball of ...
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Comments Off on Review: Dark Millennium “Ashore the Celestial Burden” [Massacre Records]
Sometimes you stumble upon an album that’s enjoyable on its own, but compared to what a band had released before just feels a bit pale, you know? Think ...
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Comments Off on Review: Virgin Steele “Invictus” [T&T Records]
It would be terribly tempting to dismiss this album as being the meandering prog-ish jams from a few metalheads in Sweden that remotely switch from clean to distorted, ...
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Comments Off on Review: Opeth “Blackwater Park” [Music for Nations]
Hatebreed can be hardly called an underground band but at the same time it is far from mainstream. Bridgeport tattooed lads strived for what they got now with ...
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Comments Off on Review: Hatebreed “Weight Of The False Self” [Nuclear Blast]
In November 2019 after some radical line-up changes, Sodom releases EP Out Of The Frontline Trench – to show “a sign of life for the fans” and generate ...
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Belphegor is a band that has essentially been established as one of the main pillars in the blackened death metal subgenre. Formed in 1993, they have released 11 ...
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Comments Off on Review: Belphegor “Necrodaemon Terrorsathan” [Nuclear Blast Records]
One thing that I love about cover artwork is its ability to represent what kind of album you’re dealing with and of course plenty of death metal albums ...
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Comments Off on Review: Suffocation “Human Waste” [Relapse Records]
Before I attempt to describe this music with as much detail as possible, I would encourage any curious listener out there to think of acquiring a teddy bear ...
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Comments Off on Review: Portal “Outre'” [Profound Lore Records]
American Tombs is a very productive band: since its foundation in 2007 the band released four longplays, four EPs and a couple of split albums. In 2020 another ...
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It’s been some years since John Arch and Jim Matheos formed Arch/Matheos and once I’ve heard the two men would come up with a second album, I wasn’t ...
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Comments Off on Review: Arch / Matheos “Winter Ethereal” [Metal Blade Records]
Long live the retrorock. Do you like Ghost? Do you like The Hellacopters? Then you will surely like “Lucifer III” from Lucifer as well. I am consciously referring ...
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Comments Off on Review: Lucifer “Lucifer III” [Century Media Records]
In the last few years there were a lot of folk metal bands whose careers has ended, or they had a complete style change. But there is one ...
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Comments Off on Review: Finntroll “Vredesvävd” [Century Media Records]
Six years until the new record of the Bavarian black metal beast Dark Fortress enters our dimension. “Venereal Dawn” from 2014 was a very experimental album. So, what ...
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Comments Off on Review: Dark Fortress “Spectres from the Old World” [Century Media Records]
What do you do when you get fired by your boss via Whatsapp? In case of Markus “Makka” Freiwald and Bernd “Bernemann” Kost, both now ex-Sodom, you don’t ...
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Comments Off on Review: Bonded “Rest in Violence” [Century Media Records]
Since 2012 “Fearmonger” is the first album from the Canadian tech-death bastion Beneath the Massacre and all in all their fourth. 8 years is a long time. Can ...
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