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Review: Avatar “Hunter Gatherer” [Century Media Records]

For almost 20 years of existence Avatar deservedly achieved a lot. The thoughtful concept, great albums and stunning shows, as a result of long and...

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Review: Brotthogg “The Die Is Cast”

Norwegians Brotthogg debut album Echoes Of The Past gained a lot of attention deservedly in 2019. And now, according to expression “strike the iron while...

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Review: Hellgrimm “Elysium”

Elysium is some nice heavy metal, with cool stories about monsters of all kinds. You will meet demons, witches, and all the horrors and torments...

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Review: Warkings “Revenge” [Napalm Records]

Two years ago, in 2018 many thought that the new band Warkings is a one-time project and everything will end with their debut (and well-advertised)...

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Review: Antipope “Apostle of Infinite Joy” [Fertile Crescent Productions]

After three years of silence Antipope has returned with its fifth full-length album “Apostle of Infinite Joy” via the label Fertile Crescent Productions. The band...

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Review: Primal Fear “Metal Commando” [Nuclear Blast]

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...

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Review: Amherawdr “Adorned With the Figures of Snakes” [Onism Productions]

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...

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Review: Morto ”Subsistencia Pesimista… Explorando El Concepto Del Vacio” [Black Spark Records]

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...

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Video Of The Week: no.1 – Powerwolf “Blessed And Possessed”

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...

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Review: Distillator “Summoning the Malicious” [Empire Records]

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...

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Classic review: Running Wild “Victim of States Power” [Noise Records]

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...

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Review: Banisher “Degrees of Isolation” [Selfmadegod Records]

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...

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Review: Azanigin “Rise of the Adversary”

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,...

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Review: Membaris “Misanthrosophie” [World Terror Committee]

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...

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Classic review: Fates Warning “The Spectre Within” [Metal Blade Records]

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...

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Classic review: King Diamond “Fatal Portrait” [Roadrunner Records]

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;...

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Review: Thundermother “Heat Wave” [AFM Records]

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...

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Review: Needful Things “Deception” [Give Praise records]

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...

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Review: INTOXICATED “Walled” [Seeing Red Records]

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...

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Review: Conan/Deadsmoke (split) ”Doom Sessions Vol.1” [Heavy Psych Sounds Records]

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…...