FEANOR is an Argentinian Heavy Metal band with Tolkien inspired lyrics. Their fifth full-length album “Hellhammer” starts with a great melodic riff and the inmediate thing it reminds me of is that Micke Stark’s vocals sound very similar to Fabio Lione’s. It has great epic / symphonic choruses. The guitar solos are amazing. There’s some […]
Freezingly cold melodic Black Metal from the dark of Germany. This is FROSTED UNDERGROWTH’s third full-length album – and they are continuing the style from the two first albums “Shadows Of Ascending Darkness” from 2019 and “Toward Hollow Kingdoms” from 2022 quite well. I have always sensed a heavy cloak of the early ’90s Swedish […]
The curiosity surrounding KÆCK, the formidable project consisting of veterans from the Dutch underground, including those behind SAMMATH, is more than justified. KÆCK featuring guitarist Jan Kruitwagen from that legendary Dutch outfit, appeared out of nowhere with their seminal debut full-length “Stormkult” in 2015. That debut sent some storm deep in the underground and can […]
I will admit not knowing what to think upon seeing the cover for this, the latest release from FRANTIC AGGRESSOR. Also, I experienced a bit of trepidation, because they are a completely new band to me, so gazing across the cover art and the logo, would it be a blackened Thrash assault? A more nationalistic […]
DISCARNATION is a pretty raw and interesting entity that mixes old school Death Metal, Doom Metal and Funeral Doom. Ok, you got the point and for sure this is not an original approach in 2025, since we’ve been facing a continuos revival of doomed Death Metal in the last decade. So, even if DISCARNATION doesn’t […]
BLIZZEN means something like lightning, but with a slight twist using a phantasy language for making it sound more Metal. BLIZZEN means Heavy Metal, Hardrock and Speed Metal. Chains, spikes, leather and bullet-belts. Four guys who could have stepped right out of a picture book about ’80s Metal. Compared to their Hardrock orientated and playful […]
As my friend Carlos would say: “How beautiful is music, pibe.” And it’s great when a Metal band can make your head bob from the very first riff. And that’s what happens here with surgical precision: PLAGUE VESSEL, a new band that comes to nourish the powerful Finnish Death Metal scene. And it couldn’t be […]
SVNTARER is a new band for me, formed in 2020. Austrian, by the way. I always admit it, there are certain styles of Metal that I’m not very familiar with. Even though I like to explore new and new bands (new for me), I confess that my search circulates only in certain styles. I stayed […]
Finland’s EXTINGUISHED put out two deadly EPs, one in 2022 and one in 2025, both getting a tape release by US based label Caligari Records. Now Morbid Chapel Records, based in Poland, is uniting these two EPs into one compilation CD, just barely crossing into LP territory by less than a minute. Still it feels […]
I don’t know if it’s just me, but lately I’ve hit a rut in that nothing has grabbed me by the seat of the pants lately. Not to say that there hasn’t been any good stuff out this year. So has I delve into this, the debut full-length from PUTRIDITIUM, I’m sorry to mention that […]