There are very few records that grew on me at the rate that Spectral Voice’s debut album did. I only found out about it within the past couple ...
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Lady Fortune hasn’t smiled a lot upon Canadians Anvil. For the 40 years of activity, 17 albums and countless shows they couldn’t reach the status that some bands ...
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Comments Off on Review: Anvil “Legal At Last” [AFM Records]
Since their founding in 2014 Serious Black surprised with their fertility, releasing an album every year. It’s a lot, taking into account that some of the band’s members ...
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Comments Off on Review: Serious Black “Suite 226” [AFM Records]
While Cattle Decapitation has always been a band I have followed, they’ve never been a band I’ve truly ever loved. While I do enjoy a large bulk of ...
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Comments Off on Review: Cattle Decapitation “Death Atlas” [Metal Blade Records]
The crazy history of New York hardcore pioneers Cro Mags is one that is at times triumphant and definitely tumultuous but behind all the drama that has ensued ...
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Comments Off on Review: Cro-Mags “From The Grave” [Victory Records]
I truly have no idea why I’m only stumbling upon Manacle now, two years following their debut record. No Fear To Persevere avoids all of the redundancies that ...
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Comments Off on Review: Manacle “No Fear to Persevere…” [Hard and Heavy Records, No Remorse Records]
German black metal mavericks Porta Nigra earned plenty of favourable reviews four years ago for their sophomore album Kaiserschnitt. Well its successor Schöpfungswut is an equally opulent offering. ...
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Comments Off on Review: Porta Nigra “Schöpfungswut” [Soulseller Records]
There are not so much female fronted Thrash Metal bands. Somehow, historically, girls go to Symphonic Metal or straight to some extreme genres but for some reason they ...
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Comments Off on Review: Hyperia “Insanitorium” [Sliptrick Records]
Sometimes it happens when you find something horrid at first glance but somehow you can’t take your eyes of it? And the more you look at it, get ...
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Comments Off on Review: Rat King “Vicious Inhumanity” [Within The Mind Records]
While not quite as widely recognised as some of their black metal Satan-worshipping compatriots, such as say 1349, Norway’s Svarttjern have nevertheless made their presence felt with five ...
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Comments Off on Review: SVARTTJERN “Shame Is Just A Word” [Soulseller Records]
Erase. Rewind. Rebuild… I’ve not exactly been an active follower of Lacuna Coil since about the time when they kind of exploded onto the scene with the commercial ...
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Comments Off on Review: Lacuna Coil ”Black Anima” [Century Media Records]
For all those thrashers who are not in the mood for a long read, here’s the summary of War-Head – Monuments of Fallacy: This is Sodom on horse ...
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Comments Off on Review: War-Head “Monuments of Fallacy” [Infernö Records]
Some say that Power Metal is dying, like it’s outdated and isn’t interesting for no one. Nevertheless, Sabaton and Powerwolf are pretty good with regular sold out shows. ...
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Comments Off on Review: Victorius “Space Ninjas From Hell” [Napalm Records]
It often happens that I lose a sight of some really good or for some reason important releases, as always. Split album called A Glimpse Beyond from Germans ...
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Comments Off on Review: Pripjat/Hell:On “A Glimpse Beyond” [The Crawling Chaos Records]
Whether we want it or not, we’re living in postmodern era: looks like everything was already invented before and the only thing that left is to merge thing ...
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Comments Off on Review: Oceans “The Sun And The Cold” [Nuclear Blast Records]
Gather round ‘ye children of the night and feast your eyes upon the freshly mulched mound of horror! Though the ghastly month of October has passed (unceremoniously) a ...
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Comments Off on Review: Mad God “Grotesque and Inexorable” [Narcoleptica Productions / Red Handed Records]
At the rate that Haunt puts out albums and EPs, it’s damn-near impossible to keep up with them. Both of their full-lengths Burst Into Flames (2018) and If ...
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Comments Off on Review: Haunt “Mind Freeze” [Shadow Kingdom Records]
Kaldvard’s bio describes them as a band inspired by black metal, scary old legends and witch trials. And they successfully expressed all of that in their new album. ...
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Comments Off on Review: Kaldvard “Dømt Til Bål Og Brann”
That’s how you do black/thrash metal! With all the good stuff: some unrelenting heaviness and speed, very well-executed vocals that go from snarly and high-to deeper growls, and ...
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Comments Off on Review: Hellixxir “The Black Fortress” [Music-Records]
For the 35 years of existence Rage have been through many things: rises and falls, line-up changes and sound experiments – I think there is no sense to ...
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Comments Off on Review: Rage “Wings Of Rage” [Steamhammer/SPV]
