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

The last Hell:On‘s longplay to date, Once Upon A Chaos was released in far 2015. Three years later the band mentioned in some interview that...

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Review: Atheist “Piece of Time” [Active Records]

Way back during the earliest days of death metal, bands were looking for ways to produce the most extreme brand of music that would foreshadow...

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Review: Leaves’ Eyes “The Last Viking” [AFM Records]

This autumn after two-year gap the German/British band Leaves’ Eyes has presented their eighth full-length album “The Last Viking” in a long-term partnership with a...

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Review: MOSKOWA “The Man Of The Three Islands” [Music-Records]

This year the French label Music Records has re-released for the third time the album “The Man of the Three Islands” from young French band...

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Review: Crimson Glory “Crimson Glory” [Par Records]

Way back in 1986 during the early stages of metal, Florida was not known yet as the world capital of death metal but there was...

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Review: Decapitated “The Negation” [Earache Records]

Volume 3 of prime Decapitated continues to further polish the diamond that is this brand of high-octane fury from the Polish death metal savants. The...

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Review: Vermocracy “s/t”

Let’s have another apocalyptic thrashy death metal album, I guess? This is a nice, but not always great collection of melodic death metal tracks, with...

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Review: Benediction “Scriptures” [Nuclear Blast / Rough Trade]

As soon as I heard this I was immediately taken back to the Benediction we have all come to love as I have really been...

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Review: Cattle Decapitation “Monolith of Inhumanity” [Metal Blade Records]

Wonderfoul music (yes, “wonder-foul”) Great albums often have an ability to use fairly ordinary sounding patterns which instead of coming across as stereotypical feel utterly...

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Review: Spirit Adrift “Enlightened In Eternity” [Century Media Records]

In many cases there is a risk for many young bands to slip into cliche and plagiarism, especially when they decided to play music in...

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Review: Twisted Mist “Orbios” [Music-Records]

Melodic folk death metal band Twisted Mist from French Reims this year has released their third album “Orbios” through Music-Records, in the same charming medieval...

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Review: SKELETHAL “Unveiling the Threshold” [Hells Headbangers]

After three years the French death metalheads Skelethal have returned with their second full-length album “Unveiling the Threshold” with the help of the music label...

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Review: Harmonize “Warrior in the Night”

This is an interestingly darker take on power metal. You get all the nice power metal ingredients, like the fast riffs, belting vocals and epic...

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Review: Elffor “Age of Blackness” [GS Productions]

Elffor is a fantastic band that I have neglected for far too long. I purchased the re-recorded version of ‘Son of the Shades’ in 2017...

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Review: Mythological Cold Towers “Sphere of Nebaddon: The Dawn of a Dying Tyffereth” [Sound Riot Records]

By the mid-90’s doom/death metal was all over the place and Mythological Cold Towers were one of the earlier doom/death metal bands to rise from...

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Review: Alleyway “After Dark” [Sliptrick Records]

Usually I try to introduce the band in the beginning of review but in case of Alleyway I just put a quote from press release,...

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Review: Anaal Nathrakh “Endarkenment” [Metal Blade Records]

The following statement will make sense by the end of this review – Anaal Nathrakh are just in it for the money. This is something...

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Review: Kekal “Quantum Resolution” [Eastbreath Records]

Every two or three years the Indonesian avant-garde pioneers Kekal pleases the audience with the new release, this year they have released the 12th full-length...

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Review: MIDGARD “Tales Of Kreia” [Sliptrick records]

Ukrainian band Midgard has released three full-length albums during five years of existence, and this year they have released conceptual folk album “Tales of Kreia”...

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Review: Crippled Black Phoenix “Ellengæst” [Season Of Mist]

Crippled Black Phoenix was formed in 2004 when multi-instrumentalist Justin Greaves, associated with such bands like Electric Wizard and Iron Monkey came to idea to...