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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...

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Review: Allen/Olzon “Worlds Apart” [Frontiers Music srl]

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...

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Review: Outlaws – Dixie Highway [Steamhammer/SPV]

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)....

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Review: Khazad-dûm “Hymns from the Deep” [I Hate]

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...

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Review: Night Crowned “Impius Viam” [Noble Demon]

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...

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Review: Kawir “Adrasteia” [Iron Bonehead]

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...

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Review: Nordligblåst “Light That Is Called Darkness” [Careless Records / Death Kvlt Productions]

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...

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Review: Raspberry Bulbs “Before The Age Of Mirrors” [Relapse Records]

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...

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Review: Hex A.D. “Astro Tongue in the Electric Garden” [Fresh Tea 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:...

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Review: Ozzy Osbourne “Ordinary Man” [Sony Music]

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...

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Review: Psycroptic “As the Kingdom Drowns” [Prosthetic Records]

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...

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Review: Demons & Wizards “III” [Century Media 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...