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Twenty years since Watching From A Distance… That album was huge for me back then, so I went into this one pretty nervous. I kept...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...