Always exciting when a band reunites after decades. This time it is OAK COFFIN, originally formed back in 1995 and already called the quits three demos and few years later. But last year the trio from New Jersey, United States of America, reunited and the opener ‘My Fire’ already teaches the listener a lesson about […]
2025 sees the release of the latest EP by Chile’s GOATZIED, a band existing since 2012 and having three other short releases to their name. “Ancestral Rites Of Goatzied”, released on CD by Mexican label Iron, Blood And Death Corporation, offers four songs of intense no bullshit South American Death Metal. The riffage on this […]
This band had been around since 2006 and this is the first time I hear something from them. It’s a German band who plays technical Death / Thrash Metal. My first impression is that the first riff that I heard reminded me of THE HAUNTED. Which isn’t a bad thing. It has some blast beats […]
“Erevos” is the second full-length album by the Greek band PENTHOS. Here we have almost 40 minutes of traditional and primitive Black Metal in its purest form, more rooted in the Scandinavian sound than the Hellenic one. Too bad since I’m a great fan of old school bands like early VARATHRON and ROTTING CHRIST. However, […]
Holy shit! More Heavy Metal for my ears. And a new band. This time from Norway. These new demons called CHASING DEMONS are here with their debut album “Echoes From The Past”, after having been releasing singles from May until September, when they finally launched the album. “Echoes From The Past” is what it had […]
I usually spend a couple of hours of my day getting to know new Metal bands. It’s a practice I enjoy a lot. Naturally, this practice entails listening for the first time to bands that, in many cases, leave you with the happiness of having chosen to listen to them. And well, that’s what happened […]
Damn! How good it is to hear this music! I remember when “Spectral Devastation” came out in 2020. That was my introduction to the music of the great SÖLICITÖR. I was immediately captivated by the music that (that year) this American band presented to the world on a full-length album. I remember sharing it a […]
GORLEBEN’s second album “Menetekel” was released in October 2025 by Darkness Shall Rise Productions and could be described simply as Post Metal, but this somehow feels like it isn’t doing justice to the many different aspects of their style. It seems like the band took the term literally and just tried to create music that […]
HEADS FOR THE DEAD, an international Death Metal project by Jonny Petersson of too many bands to mention and REVEL IN FLESH’s Ralf Hauber, released their fourth album “Never Ending Night Of Terror” through Pulverised Records. Their approach to Death Metal feels very cinematic with heavy use of keyboards for atmosphere and melodic guitar solos. […]
As you all probably have surmised by just the name alone, you know exactly what you are stepping into with this release. A further perusal of the song titles will erase any doubts that this is pure Death Metal. Death Metal from the sewers of Denmark may be a more apt description. If I can […]