It was pouring rain to the point of boredom that day. Seeing a band like Nile that almost literally blows desert winds through the stereo on a day ...
Read more
Comments Off on Gig report: Nile, Omophagia, Vapor, Confess- Zagreb, Croatia, 02.05.2023
Reviews
Reviews
An axe both blunt and razor-sharp… Austria has a lot more to offer than I had expected when it comes to variety in metal. Until just last year, ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Obsidian Chamber ”Holzphäller” [Running Wild Productions]
For their new album, Ignea take us on a trip around the world, with musical experiments and strange adventures. Are you ready? Dreams of Lands Unseen is a ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Ignea “Dreams of Lands Unseen” [Napalm Records]
This report is for all the guys in the first row who smoked during Soilwork. What happened? Read on! To be brutally honest, these kinds of gigs I ...
Read more
Comments Off on Gig report: Kataklysm, Soilwork, Horizon Ignited – Zagreb, Croatia, 22.04.2023
Finally, it is time to review a new album by the original queen of thrash metal. And luckily for us, she and her incredibly talented bandmates have created ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Holy Moses “Invisible Queen” [Fireflash Records]
Failure of State by San Francisco death/thrash band Absolute Darkness. I am not sugar-coating this overview and should you choose to listen to this entire album, which I ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Absolute Darkness “Failure of State” [Sliptrick Records]
Amoriello and co return for a nice power metal album full of fantasy and adventures, that may not be as strange and oddly compelling as their first album ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Amoriello “Phantom Sounds” [Shredguy Records / H42 Records]
Unchristian Christian is a Swedish one-man band and this is an overview of an album entitled Sulphurfeast. My best description of this is death metal with an avant-garde ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Unchristian Christian “Sulphurfeast”
Italian modern melodic death metal band Steel Cage has been silent for fourteen years, and finally, last summer was a turning point for these Neapolitans, Sliptrick Records have ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Steel Cage “Syndrome” [Sliptrick Records]
Last July the new modern progressive metal band from Greece Spektrvm has released their debut album Blood for Heaven via Sliptrick Records. Based on the classic traditions of ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Spektrvm “Blood for Heaven” [Sliptrick Records]
On review/overview here is Doomsday & Salvation by Swedish death metallers The Grifted. This is standard Swedish death metal, with a little death ‘n roll thrown in for ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: The Grifted “Doomsday & Salvation” [Personal Records]
In the Indian Ocean, heading towards the southern tip of Africa, between Madagascar and Mauritius lies the island of Réunion. With a population of just under 1 million ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Lomor “Perseverance of Sickness”
Guys, this is a fantastic release by a four-piece death metal band from Bahrain… I know right? And I don’t mean that condescendingly. It’s just that one doesn’t ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Ryth “Deceptor Creator”
On review here is S.B.A.H. which I suspect is an acronym for the opening track, “Slut Bag Ass Hammer”, by the US band Time To Kill. I’m hearing ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Time To Kill “S.B.A.H.” [Sliptrick Records]
On review here is De Profundis, the full-length debut by the seven-piece French band Les Enfants de DAGON. This is an album that incorporates a lot of different ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Les Enfants de Dagon “De Profundis” [Sliptrick Records]
By the end of last summer Finnish extreme metal trio Damnation Prayer has emerged with their debut album Blood Ritual: Symbols of Warfare and Annihilation, releasing it utterly ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Damnation Prayer “Blood Ritual: Symbols of Warfare and Annihilation”
Confession is an extreme metal duo from Poland, formed a couple of years ago. Last July their debut album Coloured by the Red Flames of Fire was released ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Confession “Coloured by the Red Flames of Fire”
As I usually do, this will be an overview, but with some additional headers. That way what I am trying to say will not get lost in paragraphs ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Destillat “Under Black Horizons” [Sliptrick Records]
Brazilian duo Self-Deceiver have delivered a superb seven-song sonic treat! Across The Styx is f$&@ing fantastic! How else do I describe this? There are thousands of bands to try ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Self-Deceiver “Across the Styx”
Short and sweet people… Thank you Headfist! Finally, a release to restore our faith in modern thrash. Now admittedly there is a bit of a skate feel to ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Headfist “This New World….”
