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Interview: Moonshade

Below you can read an interview I’ve conducted with Portuguese metal act, Moonshade, where both members Ricardo (vocals) and Pedro (guitar) shared new information about...

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Review: Altered Aeon ”Dispiritism” [Black Lotus Records]

Grab your shovels for a grave worth exhuming! Don’t you just love it when you are forced to stay at home for whatever reasons, be...

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VINCENT CROWLEY – Release Videoclip For “Masquerade Du Macabre”

ODIUM RECORDS release new videoclip “Masquerade Du Macabre” from the album of an underground legend – VINCENT CROWLEY Beyond Acheron which was released in June....

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Review: Riot V “Thundersteel” [CBS]

Sometimes you just need to take a break in order to recharge your creativity. Such was with the case with Riot V, as their two...

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Review: Drakon Ho Megas ”Drakon Ho Megas” (Independent release)

The Hellenic Drakon Rises… Although Drakon Ho Megas have only been formed about a year ago, they surely don’t sound like a bunch of amateurs...

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Review: Torturer “Die in Pain” [PRC Music]

Could you do without the bland imitations of Entombed and Dismember? Do you find Gruesome almost insulting? Then Torturer might just be what you’re after!...

Interview: THYRFING

Sweden’s black/viking metal act Thyrfing, are back with a new album in nearly 8 years. Then, Vanagandr was out this year’s late August via Despotz...

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Review: Nekromantheon ”Visions Of Trismegistos” [Indie Records]

Nekromantheon created quite a buzz in the early 2010s when they released the two full length albums Divinity in Death and Rise, Vulcan Spectre. I...

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Review: Sanctuary ”The Year The Sun Died” [Avalon Records]

The late Apex of Warrel Dane‘s career! I can already see the flaming arrows pointing at me from a distance but that doesn’t deter me...

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Review: Vicious Rumors “Digital Dictator” [Roadrunner Records]

Although it would take Vicious Rumors three years to release a second album, Digital Dictator would be the definite album of this band and it’s easy to...

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Review: Savatage “Hall of the Mountain King” [Atlantic Records]

Let me get something off my chest right away: by no means am I a huge Savatage fan. I enjoy plenty of their early stuff,...

Interview: JORD

Interview with the Swedish one-man black/atmospheric metal act, Jord. Debut album Sol out via Northern Silence Productions. Please introduce Jord and when did you form...

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Review: Metal Church “Hanging in the Balance” [Rising Sun Productions]

There are two things you can be certain about when it comes down to Metal Church. For one, they retained a sense of integrity over...

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Review: Savatage “Gutter Ballet” [Atlantic Records]

When bands depart from their earlier and often heavier sound, there are always some obvious risks involved. Some bands get away with it, but I’d...

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Review: Metal Church “Masterpeace” [Nuclear Blast America]

I’m not sure why, but I can’t help but think that Metal Church’s later period has been rather overlooked. A shame, really, as I’ve recently...

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Review: Abstrakt Algebra- Abstrakt Algebra (Megarock Records)

When Candlemass split up in the early 90s bass player and main man Leif Edling felt that he was far from finished with the music,...

Interview: WOE UNTO ME

Here you can read an interview I had with Artyom Serdyuk, who is active with several bands: Woe Unto Me, Disloyal and Deathbringer. Artyom discussed...

Interview: AREIS

Areis, which in ancient Occitan means “to raise“, is a newly band in the scene, formed by members of Right To The Void and Kombur,...

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Dark Redeemer Release Single/Lyric Video For “Tmc”

Blasphemous Records is now ready to announce the digital release of the opening track of “INTO THE DEEP BLACK”, the so much awaited debut album of Death...

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Review: Communic ”Hiding From The World” [AFM Records]

Three years after Where Echoes Gather, the Norwegians return with their sixth album. I wasn’t having high hopes on this one as the two previous...