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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...

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Review: Pretty Maids “Undress Your Madness” [Frontiers Music srl]

Pretty Maids‘ history is the history of rising, falling and rising again. Though, if melodic Heavy and Hard Rock were trendy in 80s (the first...

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Review: Agnostic Front “Get Loud!” [Nuclear Blast]

Fathers (or, maybe, grandfathers) of NYHC Agnostic Front have something to say about things that happen in their country and the whole world again. And...

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Review: Blind Guardian Twilight Orchestra “Legacy Of The Dark Lands” [Nuclear Blast Records]

It is never long that comes at last. In case of Blind Guardian it was really long, 23 years to be exact. In 1996 the...

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Review: Gatecreeper “Deserted” [Relapse records]

Gatecreeper are a band that have a small surge of hype around them, and considering they’re coming to my home-town, I felt it my duty...

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Review: The Dark Element “Songs The Night Sings” [Frontiers Music srl]

Two years ago The Dark Element‘s debut self-titled album was released. Honestly, I took this band, with former Sonata Arctica‘s guitarist Jani Liimatainen and Anette...

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Review: Scarleth “Vortex” [Rockshots Records]

I have a strong connection with Ukrainian metal scene so I heard about Scarleth. I know that the band released two albums and then there...

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Review: Black Road “Witch of the Future” [DHU Records]

Taking formation back in 2015, Black Road rose from Chicago Illinois, and they deliver a brand of stoner/doom that’s surprisingly accessible with a ghostly aura...

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Review: Vintertodt “I – V” [Black Spark Records]

Here is the answer when people say that there is no good or promising American raw black metal bands out there. Vintertodt which is formed...

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Review: Opeth ”In Cauda Venenum” [Moderbolaget Records / Nuclear Blast Records]

Few bands have evolved in quite the way Opeth have during their illustrious career. The one time darlings of the doom tinged death metal scene...

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Review: Black Sabbath “Heaven and Hell” [Vertigo Records / Warner Bros. Records]

A couple of unsuccessful albums and weird changes in the band’s formula gave rise to Osbourne‘s departure in such an unexpected fashion. For those reasons,...

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Review: Midnight Priest “Aggressive Hauntings” [Metal On Metal Records]

I’ve touched on many albums in my time as a reviewer that have made me end with something like “I don’t really like this, but...