Review: Amorphis “Elegy” [Relapse Records]
Once one looks back at the 90’s, it’s easy to identify certain patterns that were part of the (at the time, at least) uncertain decade....
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Review: Obituary “Dying Of Everything” [Relapse Records]
In 2017 the self-titled Obituary album was released. It hit the highest positions in various charts for all time the band exists (however, does it...
Review: Morgion “Solinari” [Relapse Records]
Morgion were one of those doom/death metal bands that didn’t change as drastically as other bands did and while this seems ideal on paper, nothing...
Review: Ilsa “Preyer” [Relapse Records]
After two years of silence the American crust/doom legend Ilsa, based in Washington D.C., has returned with a new album “Preyer”, the second one in...
Review: Suffocation “Souls to Deny” [Relapse Records]
Brutal death metal legends Suffocation take their act to a somewhat avant-garde area of their sound as they voluntarily switch up from stark atonality to...
Review: Nile “Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka” [Relapse Records]
Nile hit the scene some time during the mid 90’s, releasing their debut full length here in 1998, making them part of the second wave...
Review: Suffocation “Human Waste” [Relapse Records]
One thing that I love about cover artwork is its ability to represent what kind of album you’re dealing with and of course plenty of...
Review: Dying Fetus “Destroy the Opposition” [Relapse Records]
This delves right into the meat of it: scornful deathgrind with fat power chord grooves, high-energy tremolo picking over blasts, riddled with technical riffing often of...
Classic review: Amorphis “Privilege of Evil” [Relapse Records]
Long before Amorphis played mellow sauna metal, they were yet another Finnish death metal band with no hints of what was to come in sight....
Interview: INCANTATION
Incantation released a brand new album called Sect of Vile Divinities. Also, the band released an amazing video for “Entrails of the Hag Queen”, directed...
INCANTATION – Release Music Video For “Fury’s Manifesto”
Death metal pioneers INCANTATION unleash their “Fury’s Manifesto” music video. The track comes off the band’s highly anticipated new full-length, Sect Of Vile Divinities, set...
Classic Review: Amorphis “The Karelian Isthmus” [Relapse Records]
It’s always fascinating to hear the differences between two outputs that stylistically represent the same specific era of a band. Such was the case with...
INCANTATION announce new album Sect Of Vile Divinities; lyric video unveiled!
Death metal pioneers INCANTATION return with their highly anticipated new full-length, Sect Of Vile Divinities, coming August 21st via Relapse Records. For over thirty years, INCANTATION has consistently remained one of the underground’s...
EXHUMED – Release New Song “Rot Your Brain”
Gore Metal maniacs EXHUMED and Death Metal Defenders of the Old GRUESOME return for more kills and thrills with their new split, Twisted Horror, out June 5th. Listen to EXHUMED‘s new...
Review: Myrkur “Folkesange” [Relapse Records]
Whatever it is, Myrkur is a very interesting project, though some “orthodox” still think that it doesn’t has a right for existence; ok, that’s what...
MYRKUR release new track “Gudernes Vilje” (The Will Of The Gods)
Today MYRKUR’s Amalie Bruun has shared a third and final pre-release track from her forthcoming album, Folkesange which is set for release on March 20th via Relapse Records. Myrkur has always...
Review: Raspberry Bulbs “Before The Age Of Mirrors” [Relapse Records]
When a band states that plays Punk/Black Metal, it sounds great: aggression, misanthropy, nonconformity and nihilism, which sometimes are carefully hidden inside, break out in...
MYRKUR – release new video for “Leaves Of Yggdrasil”
Today Danish composer and multi-instrumentalist, MYRKUR has revealed her new video and single, “Leaves of Yggdrasil”. Amalie Bruuns‘s delicate and sweeping vocals paired with the...
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...
Review: Integrity / Krieg
Integrity / Krieg Relapse records Integrity have always had an intensity about their metallic hardcore onslaught that is defiantly unrelenting and this has been the...