Young but perspective Greeks Shadow In The Darkness released in May their debut album “Erstwhile Befell”. Earlier their released a couple of singles, to tease the listeners with ...
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Let’s have a nice creepy dive through a dark and compelling death metal abyss. Open Chest sounds like a throwback to old school death metal, with a few ...
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Technically, the Swiss band Gomorra exists since 2019, not for a long time at all. However it doesn’t means that these musicians are newcomers, no! And the band’s ...
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Throughout all 13 years history of existence I Miss My Death released only their second album “Mysto” in 2020. And this time they decide to use their native ...
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German melodic rockers Cryptex after five years returned with their new album “Once Upon a Time”. They decided not to reinvent the wheel, but preferred to release classic ...
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With the passing of time some initially heavy bands make their sound softer. Frequently such experiments end unsuccessfully, while there are some surprisingly good exceptions. Paradise Lost experimented ...
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Sinister carry on their illustrious career with their fourteenth release, Deformation of the Holy Realm. A disappointing paint by numbers death metal album, it leaves a lot to ...
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Crafting an incredibly varied sound, In the Company of Serpents delivers a mind expanding musical experience. Taking influence from life and the cosmos equally, Lux touches on themes ...
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Los Angeles Grindcore maniacs BruceXCampbell return with a specially released version of last year’s long awaited and years in the making South To No Life album. The year ...
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Brazil’s Hellgarden come roaring to life with their incredibly entertaining debut, Making Noise, Living Fast. Putting together an album of hard rocking metal tunes that will get many ...
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Molasses slow sludge and classical psychedelia come together to form a dense metallic sound that Eremit call Desert of Ghouls. A hypnotic swirl of brutally churning riffs and ...
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Bay Area Thrash torch bearers, Abhorrent, return with their third full length, their first release of new material in nine years. Without a spec of rust in site, ...
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I have to admit that I was not a big fan of Axel Rudi Pell’s (ARP) last album “Knights Call” (2018) and therefore a little biased towards checking ...
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There are lots of European bands, which play traditionally American music. But there are also some opposite examples: American bands that play quite European Metal. Since 2010 Æther ...
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Comments Off on Review: Æther Realm “Redneck Vikings From Hell” [Napalm Records]
After the yawn-inducing year of 2019, I was looking towards 2020 to deliver more quality albums than its vapid predecessor. Not only has 2020 delivered (so far), but ...
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Telemark is the first of two EP’s to be released this year by the incomparable Ihsahn, this opening offering featuring three of his own compositions with a couple ...
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Now that the world seems to be ending, let’s have some nice apocalyptic thrash metal. This album seems to be all about disaster and apocalyptic things, from its ...
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Comments Off on Review: Extinction “The Apocalypse Mark” [Revalve Records]
I have always appreciated a band who refuses to be pigeonholed and is willing to push the envelope when developing their own sound. Norway’s Kvelertak, with their blackened ...
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I need to give this review a bit of a preface. Warbringer has never really been a thrash act that I jumped at. I’ve always found their brand ...
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Comments Off on Review: WARBRINGER “Weapons of Tomorrow” [Napalm Records]
Heavy biker Rock’-n’-Roll with some Blues, Southern and Dark Country isn’t solely American music for a long time, just like bikers themselves. Lots of famous and underground bands ...
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