A brief but nonetheless fulfilling demo has landed courtesy of Norwegian newcomers Sovereign. Neurotic rolls out steak-sized chugs to suggest that a poor prize heffer has been sacrificed ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Sovereign “Neurotic” [Redefining Darkness Records]
Reviews
The number of female fronted bands is getting bigger and bigger while the music they play becomes more diverse. Nevertheless, there are some genres where female fronted bands ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Hellraiders “Fighting Hard” [Inferno Records]
The band Prophecy 23 or to be exact Prophecy23 was formed in 2001 in Mannheim, Germany. Initially the band was Thrash and Death Metal oriented but gradually Punk ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Prophecy 23 “Fresh Metal” [Massacre Records]
Multi-talented Polish solo artist Anna Maria Oskierko created Ols as an outlet for her haunting and holistic songs. While gentle in delivery, Ols’ ritualistic pagan prose makes for captivating ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Ols ”Widma” [Pagan Records]
An album that takes you on a journey is an album worth appreciating, and Wrekmeister Harmonies’ latest full length is no exception. It’s a bizarre journey at that ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Wrekmeister Harmonies “We Love to Look at the Carnage” [Thrill Jockey Records]
Formed in 2012 in Prague, the stunning capital of Czechia (or Czech Republic, if your prefer), as a one-man project by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Dan Friml, former member ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Mean Messiah “Divine Technology” [Slovak Metal Army]
Don’t look around the corner, it might be lurking there… Well, how to start a review about a not entirely undisputed classic? Alice in Hell, unlike many other ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Annihilator ”Alice in Hell” [Roadrunner Records]
Coming from the rotting tombs under Westerstede, Germany rises another death metal project that sucked me in upon the first listen of their latest EP titled The Dissolution ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Graveyard Ghoul “The Dissolution of Flesh” [Lycanthropic Chants / Fucking Kill Records]
Me And That Man, an Adam ‘Nergal’ Darski’s Dark Country/Blues side project suddenly gained attention in 2017 when the first album, Songs Of Love And Death was released. ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Me And That Man “New Man, New Songs, Same Shit Vol. 1” [Napalm Records]
This is a much better way to make an album that tells stories. This one really has it all: catchy verses and choruses, powerful vocals, great riffs, nice ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Rhodium “Sea Of The Dead” [Sliptrick records]
It’s hard to be unbiased when one of your favorite bands releases a new album, especially when it’s a long-awaited album. Yes, it is hard but I’ll try. ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Heaven Shall Burn “Of Truth And Sacrifice” [Century Media Records]
This album is a really tasty slice of thrash metal, with some nice fast riffs, great raspy and gritty vocals, and lots of evil attitude. It’s evil music ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Prophets Of The Apocalypse “Threshold Of War” [Sliptrick records]
A little warning in advance, I would go ahead and mark this under the “give it time to grow on you” category. Acolytes Of Moros are a Swedish ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Acolytes of Moros “The Wellspring” [Nine Records]
Whatever it is, Myrkur is a very interesting project, though some “orthodox” still think that it doesn’t has a right for existence; ok, that’s what they think. Nevertheless, ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Myrkur “Folkesange” [Relapse Records]
The line “the throne is never vacant” (or principle of mass conservation, if we’re talking more scientifically) certainly applies to the music as well. How much times some ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Vulcano “Eye In Hell” [Mighty Music]
I follow Italians Deathless Legacy for something like four years. Since 2016 they released an album in a year, slowly going from a fun “circus of the freaks” ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Deathless Legacy “Saturnalia” [Scarlet Records]
While leather clothed geezers Manowar are saying good bye with their farewell tour but not going to went off the stage (or just packing their things and leave, ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Ross The Boss “Born Of Fire” [AFM Records]
What a fool I am for sleeping on Traveler last year. Their debut album is pretty magnificent, but it would have made the newest effort even more fun, ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Traveler “Termination Shock” [Gates of Hell Records]
IF you thought the darkest, bleakest thing in South Africa was its economic outlook, think again. Johannesburg-based duo Onheilig (who recently signed to Avgrundsklanger Records) are burning the ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: Onheilig “His Will, My Craft” [Demo]
Music that you find bland tends to be the hardest to review. There’s only so many times you can stretch “it’s so unremarkable that there is not really ...
Read more
Comments Off on Review: MYRHOLT “Solens Soenn og Maanens Datter”