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Review: Wrekmeister Harmonies “We Love to Look at the Carnage” [Thrill Jockey 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...

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Review: Mean Messiah “Divine Technology” [Slovak Metal Army]

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...

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Review: Annihilator ”Alice in Hell” [Roadrunner Records]

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,...

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Review: Graveyard Ghoul “The Dissolution of Flesh” [Lycanthropic Chants / Fucking Kill 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...

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Review: Me And That Man “New Man, New Songs, Same Shit Vol. 1” [Napalm 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...

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Review: Rhodium “Sea Of The Dead” [Sliptrick 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,...

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Review: Heaven Shall Burn “Of Truth And Sacrifice” [Century Media 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...

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Review: Prophets Of The Apocalypse “Threshold Of War” [Sliptrick 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....

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Review: Acolytes of Moros “The Wellspring” [Nine 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...

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Review: Myrkur “Folkesange” [Relapse 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...

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Review: Vulcano “Eye In Hell” [Mighty Music]

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...

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Review: Deathless Legacy “Saturnalia” [Scarlet Records]

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...

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Review: Ross The Boss “Born Of Fire” [AFM 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...

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Review: Traveler “Termination Shock” [Gates of Hell 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...

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Review: Onheilig “His Will, My Craft” [Demo]

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)...

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Review: MYRHOLT “Solens Soenn og Maanens Datter”

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...

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Review: Burning Witches “Dance With The Devil” [Nuclear Blast Records]

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...

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Review: Hellish Grave “Hell No Longer Waits” [Helldprod Rec.]

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...

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Review: Blue Öyster Cult “Heaven Forbid” (reissue) [Frontiers Music srl]

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...

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Review: NATTVERD “Styggdom” [Osmose Productions]

Bergen, Norway. Ancestral home to black metal legends like Taake, Gorgoroth, Immortal and Burzum – and for the past decade, Nattverd. Despite this relatively long...