Primal Fear is a rare example of the band, where, what is called, the stars have aligned. In 1998 their debut album gained a lot of attention and ...
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The British band Amherawdr exists for 15 years, but only this year the music label Onism Productions has released their first record ever, the debut album “Adorned With ...
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This is a wooly hat and gloves affair all right. The crackling cold chill that howls persistently throughout this three-track album from Morto is enough to send a ...
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With this post we start a new section “Video Of The Week”. George Lazurenko will write once a week a review for music videos, analyzing it as a ...
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Raging out from the Netherlands comes the thrash act Distillator, a speed-focused project that took formation back in 2013. They’ve dropped two full-lengths and a split since then, ...
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Whether they are singing about the occult or pirates, these German metallers have been kicking asses with their music since the outset. Even when the band shifted their ...
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If punishing Polish death metal of the kind that Decapitated have been executing with such remorseless elan for almost a quarter of a century stokes your fires, then ...
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When there is no more room in the depths of hell, Azanigin walks the earth! What a hell of an album we have here folks, really impressive, relentless, ...
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Detaching from humanity has been one of the primal trademarks when we talk about black metal, sonically, and aesthetically. Whether displaying horrendous corpse painting, using infamous stage names, ...
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There’s something rather fascinating about the progression Fates Warning made early on in their career. Each year marked a huge step forward for the band and whereas their ...
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To start, I don’t think King Diamond needs an introduction; many of the reviews previously posted have done so. I will go directly to business; however, I have ...
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In far 1975 The Runaways, unwittingly, have proved to the world that girls can also rock ‘n’ roll. In 2020 Sweden all-female band Thundermother ambitiously states: “Thundermother don’t ...
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Needful Things is one of those bands where an introduction is difficult to formulate. We’re at a level of underground that’s simultaneously entertaining yet devoid of any superb ...
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Releasing three demos in the early 90’s, one recorded and produced by Chuck Schuldiner himself, Florida-based thrashers Intoxicated have awoken with a brand new EP entitled Walled, full ...
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There’s no disguising this one is there? Doom Sessions Vol.1 very much does what it says on the tin. But this is not just doom… oh no, this ...
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The young Canadian band Red Cain has released its debut album “Kindred: Act I” in 2019, but after one year it is re-released worldwide by the Sliptrick Records. ...
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By the time Individual Thought Patterns came out, Chuck Schuldiner had already distanced himself from the horror themed sounds that characterized his early records. By no means was ...
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For the first time in its 23 years history the Belgian black metal band Āter has released its first material ever, the EP “Vullighied”. This year Sliptrick Records ...
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Unlike other bands, Septicflesh don’t release their albums quite often, one in three years at an average. Their last album Codex Omega was released in 2017 but the ...
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While the first two Metal Church albums were solid slabs of American heavy/power metal, Blessing in Disguise would define the next chapter of this band; one that would ...
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