Many moons ago an emerging movement was taking the world by storm, a movement that formed deep in the bowels of the earth; mostly fed by unequal societies ...
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A year ago Teutonic Thrash Metal legends Destruction released their 16th album Born To Perish. This year the band quite unexpectedly releases a live album Born To Thrash, ...
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Comments Off on Review: Destruction “Born To Thrash” [Nuclear Blast]
After six years of hibernation from the death metal scene, the American band Abysmal Dawn returns with their latest codex called “Phylogenesis”. Being this their most prolonged hiatus ...
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Comments Off on Review: ABYSMAL DAWN “Phylogenesis” [Season of Mist]
The Norwegian black metal scene has been covered with a certain obscure robe full of controversy due to the happenings (during the ’90s, church burnings, murders, etc.) we ...
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Comments Off on Classic review: Gorgoroth “Under the Sign of Hell” [Malicious Records]
Virtual Symmetry is a real discovery for the fans of classical, but not ordinary progressive metal. They are aesthetes and philosophers because all their music is soaked with ...
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The self-proclaimed “Best True Scottish Pirate Metal Band In The World”, Rumahoy after quite a short time release their second album, appropriately named Time II: Party. Here my ...
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The Finnish MDM band Re-Armed this June has released the fourth album on the small Swedish label Black Lion with the passionate title “Ignis Aeternum”, which perfectly describes ...
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Comments Off on Review: Re-Armed “Ignis Aeternum” [Black Lion Records]
It’s always fascinating to hear the differences between two outputs that stylistically represent the same specific era of a band. Such was the case with Amorphis, as Privilege ...
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Comments Off on Classic Review: Amorphis “The Karelian Isthmus” [Relapse Records]
Lo and behold, Ensiferum celebrates 25 years anniversary this year and I still think it’s a “new and promising” Folk/Melodic Death Metal band. I mean, I know about ...
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Comments Off on Review: Ensiferum “Thalassic” [Metal Blade Records]
Seems like July will be the month of live albums, compilations and reissues. Perhaps that’s a tendency or dubious compensation for the lack of live shows and festivals. ...
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Comments Off on Review: Bloodhunter “Bloodhunter” (reissue)
This is a really nice power/thrash EP, that will make you very frustrated that it’s so short and that the band seems to have only ever released three ...
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Comments Off on Review: Breaking the Silent “Breaking the Silent”
It always fascinates me how fast a band is able to progress for the best and how little it takes before a band heads into the wrong direction. ...
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Comments Off on Classic Review: Conception “In Your Multitude” [Noise Records]
Whereas Martin van Drunen-era Pestilence was quite an advanced death metal band, Asphyx was quite something different. Devoid of any sophistication this band alternated between the shady grooves ...
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Comments Off on Classic Review: Asphyx “Last One on Earth” [Century Media Records]
I’m not sure how well Edge of Sanity’s early records were received back in the early 90’s, but one thing should be rather obvious: Edge of Sanity never ...
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Comments Off on Classic review: Edge of Sanity “The Spectral Sorrows” [Black Mark Production]
The underground label Odium Records this June has released the split collaboration between two black metal bands – Polish Black Altar and Norwegian Kirkebrann. Both bands already have ...
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Comments Off on Review: Black Altar / Kirkebrann “Deus Inversus” [Odium Records]
Terrifying Parasites is a new name on death metal scene, and this April German musicians have released their first 3-track demo record “Human Disease” by themselves. They only ...
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No one wants to start a review with the words ‘posthumous release’ – incredibly sadly that is the case with this self-titled farewell album from Aleah. The sheer ...
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Comments Off on Review: Aleah “Aleah” [Svart Records]
The term ‘symphonic death metal’ usually triggers an association with Italian orchestral masters Fleshgod Apocalypse or possibly even the Greek black/death/goth crossover of Septicflesh. It may even bring ...
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Comments Off on Review: Serene Dark “Enantiodromia”
Wikipedia, the go-to source of all crowd-based knowledge, makes mistakes: this is a given fact, not an assumption. To prove this, we need look no further than their ...
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Comments Off on Review: Dawn of Ashes “The Antinomian” [Artoffact Records]
Seems like the time has come for Powerwolf to release “The Best Of” compilation, Best Of The Blessed in their case (of course it should be named that ...
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