Maybe only a deaf metalhead who lives on a tree in a dense forest without Internet didn’t heard about Burning Witches (even in this rare case I have ...
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Let me just start by talking about how fucking beautiful this album art is. Upon seeing something like that and discovering that it’s blackened speed metal, I had ...
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Comments Off on Review: Hellish Grave “Hell No Longer Waits” [Helldprod Rec.]
This year Frontiers Music srl label releases two live albums and one reissue of legendary Blue Öyster Cult. Live albums are Hard Rock Live Cleveland 2014 and Agent ...
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Comments Off on Review: Blue Öyster Cult “Heaven Forbid” (reissue) [Frontiers Music srl]
Bergen, Norway. Ancestral home to black metal legends like Taake, Gorgoroth, Immortal and Burzum – and for the past decade, Nattverd. Despite this relatively long career, Styggdom (released ...
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Comments Off on Review: NATTVERD “Styggdom” [Osmose Productions]
Allen/Olzon project has grown from another project of vocalists Russel Allen (Symphony X, Adrenaline Mob), Jorn Lande (Masterplan, Avantasia) and songwriter, guitarist and producer Magnus Karlsson (Promal Fear, ...
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Comments Off on Review: Allen/Olzon “Worlds Apart” [Frontiers Music srl]
Despite their long history, Outlaws somehow were if not in the shadow of Southern Rock scene, than on the sidelines (for European fans at least). But I must ...
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Comments Off on Review: Outlaws – Dixie Highway [Steamhammer/SPV]
Slow and menacing riffs with horrendous vocals is something that I can easily get behind. Dropping the frequency to the depth of funeral doom is definitely treading new ...
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Comments Off on Review: Khazad-dûm “Hymns from the Deep” [I Hate]
The words “Göteborg” and “Death Metal” placed in one sentence, warming hearts of every metalhead (dark hearts, of course). Dark Tranquillity, At The Gates, In Flames and many ...
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Comments Off on Review: Night Crowned “Impius Viam” [Noble Demon]
When a band like Kawir has been consistently producing music since 1993 (this being their eighth full-length release in that time, amidst innumerable EPs, compilation appearances and splits, ...
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Comments Off on Review: Kawir “Adrasteia” [Iron Bonehead]
When it takes you several times to start an album, you know it isn’t going to be great. That sage wisdom of course isn’t universal but most of ...
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Comments Off on Review: Nordligblåst “Light That Is Called Darkness” [Careless Records / Death Kvlt Productions]
When a band states that plays Punk/Black Metal, it sounds great: aggression, misanthropy, nonconformity and nihilism, which sometimes are carefully hidden inside, break out in a music form. ...
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Comments Off on Review: Raspberry Bulbs “Before The Age Of Mirrors” [Relapse Records]
Which music Norway is usually associated with? Black Metal, of course! Probably Viking Metal to a lesser extent. But obviously there are always some exceptions: for decade Hex ...
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Comments Off on Review: Hex A.D. “Astro Tongue in the Electric Garden” [Fresh Tea Records]
Last years’ show that rumors about Ozzy Osbourne‘s immortality were highly exaggerated: firstly he almost died from staphylococcus infection, then he cancelled his tour because of pneumonia exacerbation ...
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I remember it like it was yesterday, “The Isle of Disenchantment” had just released, taking the extreme metal community by storm. Here was a band all the way ...
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Comments Off on Review: Psycroptic “As the Kingdom Drowns” [Prosthetic Records]
Despite its bright and monumentality, Demons & Wizards, Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian) and Jon Schaffer (Iced Earth) side project has a quite poor discography, which contains only two ...
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Comments Off on Review: Demons & Wizards “III” [Century Media Records]
The history of Greek Doom/Death band On Thorns I Lay is very similar to another UK Doom Metal band’s story: ups and downs, many years of silence and ...
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Comments Off on Review: On Thorns I Lay “Threnos” [LifeForce Records]
Knight Jumps Queen, If You Know What I Mean… Jeff Waters doesn’t need too much of an introduction to those who feel home within the realm of thrash ...
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Comments Off on Review: Annihilator ”Ballistic, Sadistic” [Silver Lining Music]
Since 2007 when Kvelertak was formed, it gained a lot of attention almost immediately. Well, show me a metalhead, who can be indifferent when he listens to such ...
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Comments Off on Review: Kvelertak “Splid” [Rise Records]
Anthem of the lost is a catchy piece of music, that takes inspiration from melodic death metal, and explores other genres to create a nice mix of melody ...
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Comments Off on Review: Neurosphere “Anthem of the Lost (Part I – Nightwards)” [Revalve Records]
For more than 30 years of existence Sepultura got through so many ups and downs it would have sufficed for dozen of bands. I’ll tell you more: another ...
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