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Review: Battle Beast “No More Hollywood Endings” [Nuclear Blast Records]

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...

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Review: Amon Amarth ”Berserker” [Metal Blade 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...

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Review: Mechanical God Creation “The New Chapter” [The Goatmancer 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...

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Review: Ysbryd “Kraft” [Purity Through Fire]

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...

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Review: Hirax ”Immortal Legacy” [Steamhammer Records]

Masters will fall and slaves will rise, immortal they shake the earth! What a crushing, annihilating, corpse-raising record! Immortal Legacy – released in 2014 –...

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Review: Forever Still “Breathe In Colours” [Nuclear Blast 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,...

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Gig report: Belphegor, Suffocation, God Dethroned & Nordjevel @ Quantic Club, Bucharest- April 23rd

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...

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Review: Inter Arma “Sulphur English” [Relapse Records]

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...

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Review: Devin Townsend “Empath” [Inside Out Music]

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...

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Gig report: Anaal Nathrakh + Akercocke @ The Garage, London l April 7th, 2019

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...

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Review: Raven “Rock until You Drop” [Neat Records]

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...

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Gig report: Dark Funeral @ April 14th, 2019 | Kyiv, Ukraine

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...

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Review: Grand Magus “Wolf God” [Nuclear Blast Records]

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...

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Review: Árstíðir lífsins ”Saga á Tveim Tungum I: Vápn Ok Viðr” [Van 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...

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Gig report: Metal East – Nove Kolo – Warm Up Show | Sectorial, Burshtyn, Mutanter, Impaled Nazarene, Asphyx @ April 13, Kyiv, Ukraine

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...

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Review: Hiss From The Moat “The Harrier” [M-Theory Audio]

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...

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Review: Haunt “If Icarus Could Fly” [Shadow Kingdom Records]

Haunt are a band that I only picked up midway through last year, and their album Burst Into Flame is what really captured my attention....

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Review: Even Vast “Warped Existence” [The Goatmancer records]

21 years old band has recorded 4th album, sounds weird, really? Even Vast is Italy’s dark doom metal band existing since 1998, has been signed...

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Review: DEIPHAGO “I, The Devil” [Hells Headbangers]

Costa Rica blasphemers here with the brand new (fifth) album! The band becomes more active from the 2000’s and I see they are used to...

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Review: Karmic Link “Dark Metropolis” [Rockshots Music]

Looks can be deceiving, and for music, the same could be said when first listening to an album. From Linköping, Sweden, comes Karmic Link’s 3rd...