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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...

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Review: Nevermore “Dead Heart in a Dead World” [Century Media Records]

Nevermore may not be for everyone but what they do offer here is a brand of crossover metal with a wealth of influences pulling the...

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Review: Blotted Science “The Machinations of Dementia” [Eclectic Electric]

The guitarist from 80’s prog metal band ‘Watchtower’ gets together with Cannibal Corpse’s Alex Webster on bass and the drummer for tech prog act ‘Behold...

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Review: Sorrow Enthroned “Thelemic Grimoires”

The young black/death metal formation from Connecticut, USA, has released this year two full-length albums, and this month the second album “Thelemic Grimoires” saw the...

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Review: Dark Tranquillity “Moment” [Century Media Records]

Four years ago, in November 2016 Dark Tranquillity released their 11th album Atoma. It was highly acclaimed by fans, got some complimentary reviews from critics...

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Review: Anthem “Domestic Booty” [Nexus]

When band members leave and get replaced, it’s often a question whether the shoes aren’t too big to fill. In Anthem’s case, this wasn’t an...

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Review: False Gods “No Symmetry… Only Disillusion” [Seeing Red Records]

On No Symmetry… Only Dissolution, New York’s False Gods come out of the gate burning hot and refuse to let up until they are finished....

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Review: Elusive God “The Darkest Flame” [Solitude Productions]

Croatian doom troupe, Elusive God, present their take on a very traditional sound with their EP, The Darkest Flame. A retro tinged romp through the...

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Review: Hell:on “Scythian Stamm” [Hell Serpent Music]

This is a pretty decent death/thrash album that has some potentially good ideas, but is not quite great yet. The album starts off pretty well,...

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Review: Hate Eternal “I, Monarch” [Earache Records]

Hate Eternal don’t exactly play music that could be described as welcoming. This sounds like what be going on at the center of the Earth,...

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Review: Candlemass “Epicus Doomicus Metallicus” [Black Dragon Records]

Few albums are actually as essential to a genre as they implicitly claim. Most seminal records help push the boundaries of their time and reveal...

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Review: Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons “We’re the Bastards” [Nuclear Blast Records]

As it turns out, there is a life after Motörhead. Mikkey Dee plays in Scorpions now, which play farewell shows worldwide last few years and...