How can you call a band that releases a new album after 30 years recess? Resurrected? Revenant? Or this comeback happens because of more mundane reasons? All of ...
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Comments Off on Review: Possessed “Revelation Of Oblivion” [Nuclear Blast Records]
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Theories return with new album Vessel and this is the long-awaited follow up to brilliant debut album Regression and sees the band grinding out another top quality record ...
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Comments Off on Review: Theories “Vessel” [Corpse Flower records]
Where the hell did this band spring from? Oh, the UK – my home country… right. Shame on me for missing what must be one of the very ...
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Comments Off on Review: LVCIFYRE “Sacrament” [Dark Descent Records]
You are now falling into deep void of sleep and despair, the atmosphere crushing in pressure, reminiscent of anesthesia and unconsciousness. What does this have to do with ...
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Comments Off on Review: Urza “The Omnipresence Of Loss” [Solitude Productions]
Four years passed since Anton Kabanen and Battle Beast parted their ways. During this time Anton released two great albums with his band Beast In Black and the ...
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Comments Off on Review: Battle Beast “No More Hollywood Endings” [Nuclear Blast Records]
Stuck somewhere between a burnout and heartwarming nostalgia I don’t think there should be much left to say about who Amon Amarth are and how successful they have ...
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Comments Off on Review: Amon Amarth ”Berserker” [Metal Blade Records]
What we have here is a sort of mesh of technical death metal mixed with melodic death, both highly contingent on variety. Female vocals tainted in the vein ...
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Comments Off on Review: Mechanical God Creation “The New Chapter” [The Goatmancer records]
In June of 2018 Ysbryd self-released a full length entitled Kraft. The Purity through Fire record label have not missed a trick picking up Kraft and re-releasing it ...
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Comments Off on Review: Ysbryd “Kraft” [Purity Through Fire]
Masters will fall and slaves will rise, immortal they shake the earth! What a crushing, annihilating, corpse-raising record! Immortal Legacy – released in 2014 – is still the ...
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Comments Off on Review: Hirax ”Immortal Legacy” [Steamhammer Records]
There are lots of female fronted bands nowadays and that’s good. The bad thing is that 70 percent of them are similar to each other, musically and visually. ...
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Comments Off on Review: Forever Still “Breathe In Colours” [Nuclear Blast Records]
Black and death metal, that is the description of April 23rd evening. First time seeing Belphegor, Suffocation, God Dethroned and Nordjevel. The show was opened by Darkside (Austria), but I arrived just ...
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Comments Off on Gig report: Belphegor, Suffocation, God Dethroned & Nordjevel @ Quantic Club, Bucharest- April 23rd
While Inter Arma may not be the only band playing music as intrinsically heavy as this, their well-defined sound remains quite distinct. Their 2016 release Paradise Gallows was ...
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Comments Off on Review: Inter Arma “Sulphur English” [Relapse Records]
Watching Universes Collide Being offered the new record created by a highly likeable and immensely skilled artist like Devin Townsend could (or should?) be a dream come true ...
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Comments Off on Review: Devin Townsend “Empath” [Inside Out Music]
Despite The Garage feeling more like a nightclub than a live music venue, the North London haunt continues to develop a burgeoning reputation as a facilitator of the ...
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Comments Off on Gig report: Anaal Nathrakh + Akercocke @ The Garage, London l April 7th, 2019
The trio from Newcastle brought out under the Neat Records label what became their most memorable release, and it proved to be much more consistent and fresher in ...
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Comments Off on Review: Raven “Rock until You Drop” [Neat Records]
Another north guests’ coming was marked by very cold weather in the middle of April! That weekend Black Metal bands rush was really big and probably they brought ...
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Comments Off on Gig report: Dark Funeral @ April 14th, 2019 | Kyiv, Ukraine
Since the release of their very first album, Grand Magus gained attention of many metalheads. And with every next release their fanbase became larger and larger. Started from ...
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Comments Off on Review: Grand Magus “Wolf God” [Nuclear Blast Records]
Those familiar with Árstíðir lífsins’ 2017 album Heljarkviða may feel the rug has been pulled from under their feet when their first chaotic charges of “Fornjóts synir ljótir ...
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Comments Off on Review: Árstíðir lífsins ”Saga á Tveim Tungum I: Vápn Ok Viðr” [Van Records]
The event took place at “Bingo” club, which is well known by Ukrainian metalheads: many bands from all the world played in this place. So it’s one of ...
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Comments Off on Gig report: Metal East – Nove Kolo – Warm Up Show | Sectorial, Burshtyn, Mutanter, Impaled Nazarene, Asphyx @ April 13, Kyiv, Ukraine
When it comes to metal, no genre goes unnoticed by me, at least I’d like to think so. Even genres like the “core” subgenres, while not the most ...
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Comments Off on Review: Hiss From The Moat “The Harrier” [M-Theory Audio]
