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Review: Reject the Sickness “The New Chapter”

The New Chapter is what would happen if those obscure death metal bands from the late 80s-early 90s had better production, but still kept their...

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Review: Avalanche “Sent From Hell” [Sliptrick Records]

You know how it is: sometimes you have an album and for some reason you put it aside. But then you turn it on and...

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Review: Faustus “Lipsia” [Careless Records]

To me, raw black metal seems like the real deal. Raw sound, raw emotion, raw… rawness. Of course, there are bands that laze around all...

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Review: Avatarium “The Fire I Long For” [Nuclear Blast Records]

Doom Metal is quite diverse genre with apparent narrowness of its frame. Here can be found a place for the deepest darkness, heaviness and many...

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Review: DEATH WOLF “IV: Come The Dark” [Blooddawn Productions]

It’s no mystery that Morgan Hakansson, the general of the Swedish panzer battalion Marduk is a huge Samhain/Danzig fan. For those who are not buying...

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Review: SLAYER “The Repentless Killogy – Live At The Forum In Inglewood, CA” [Nuclear Blast Records]

With their recent last ever live performance, the world said goodbye to Slayer and with that, their storied almost forty years career. As one of...

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Gig report: Heilung @ December 6th, Lviv, Ukraine

About feeling Heilung is not just music. It’s an ancient immerse world that is hiding inside all of us but we don’t even think about...

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Review: Running Wild ”Crossing the Blades” [Steamhammer Records]

Stay dead already! You know, there comes a time when the mourning passes, a moment when even the deepest wounds slowly start the healing process...

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Review: Gurthang ”Ascension” [Immortal Frost Productions]

Polish punishment crew Gurthang have managed to shoehorn six albums in to the past decade, Ascension being the latest. Originally a solo project, things have...

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Festival Report: Damnation Fest @ Leeds- UK 2019

The UK’s Damnation Fest is held every year at Leeds University. This year offered a standout selection of black metal acts. Paul Castles saw them...

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Review: Marcia Funebre “Marcia Funebre” [Heathen Tribes]

Marcia Funebre’s music consists of melodic yet gloomy black metal riffs, and deep growling death metal vocals. The vocals really are one of the band’s...

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Review: Strident “March Of Plague” [Punishment 18 Records]

Israeli metal scene, despite it is small and neglected, still alive and quite various: there are many Black Metal bands with some original views on...

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Review: Switchtense “Flesh & Bones” [Rastilho Records]

At the beginning of each new year, I have a tradition of raiding several sources online in search of new music. I have a pretty...

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Review: Ice War “Manifest Destiny” [Dying Victims Productions]

Fitting in with the traditional heavy metal revival bands, Ice War make a very stripped-down brand that only really scrapes from the bottom of the...

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Review: Herrschaft “Le Festin Du Lion” [Noires Productions]

To see a genre so woefully unpopular truly invokes a sense of appreciation. This isn’t to suggest that an unpopular genre is objectively or even...

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Review: Sodom “Out Of The Frontline Trench” [Steamhammer/SPV]

Seems that Uncle Tom Angelripper isn’t going to stop the war machine named Sodom. After another line-up change the band works on their new album....

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Review: Cyhra “No Halos In Hell” [Nuclear Blast]

Cyhra, which can be considered as a “superband”, formed in 2016. Next year, 2017 their debut album Letters To Myself was released and now, two...

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Review: Last Wail “Forgotten” [Stygian Crypt productions]

Forgotten by Last Wail feels like a mix of other albums I have reviewed. It sounds like a mix of power, thrash and death metal....

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Review: Municipal Waste “The Last Rager” [Nuclear Blast]

Thrash maniacs Municipal Waste return with their latest release The Last Rager EP and as we have come to expect from them, it’s packed full...

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Review: Quiet Riot “Hollywood Cowboys” [Frontiers Music srl]

The passing 2019 was a year of many releases from old honored bands. Few days ago Pretty Maids‘ new album was released and in the...