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Review: Toxaemia “Where Paths Divide” [Emanzipation Productions]

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...

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Review: Dark Millennium “Ashore the Celestial Burden” [Massacre Records]

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...

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Review: Virgin Steele “Invictus” [T&T 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,...

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Review: Opeth “Blackwater Park” [Music for Nations]

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...

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Review: Hatebreed “Weight Of The False Self” [Nuclear Blast]

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...

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Review: Sodom “Genesis XIX” [Steamhammer]

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...

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Review: Belphegor “Necrodaemon Terrorsathan” [Nuclear Blast Records]

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...

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Review: Suffocation “Human Waste” [Relapse 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...

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Review: Portal “Outre'” [Profound Lore 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...

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Review: Tombs “Under Sullen Skies” [Season Of Mist]

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....

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Review: Arch / Matheos “Winter Ethereal” [Metal Blade Records]

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...

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Review: Lucifer “Lucifer III” [Century Media 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...

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Review: Finntroll “Vredesvävd” [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...

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Review: Dark Fortress “Spectres from the Old World” [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...

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Review: Bonded “Rest in Violence” [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...

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Review: Beneath the Massacre “Fearmonger” [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...

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Review: Art of Shock “Dark Angeles” [Century Media Records]

Los Angeles is the breeding ground of this furious thrash machinery. Art of Shock released with “Dark Angeles” their debut album via Century Media Records....

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Review: Argentum “Ad Interitum Funebrarum” [Full Moon Productions]

When one speaks of mid-paced black metal, there are often a variety of scenes and/or bands that come to mind; think of the Greek trinity,...

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Review: Metalriff “Under My Skin” [Australis records]

Let’s have some thrash/power metal adventures, with this nice, energetic and fun album. This one really has a really wild energy that never disappears and...

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Review: Perduratum “Exile’s Anthology”

The young but powerful band from Mexico Perduratum has released their first record independently, EP “Exile’s Anthology”. They were formed in 2019, so this EP...