We can all agree that we love things that are dependable and familiar. We know what we like, and if it’s something we are familiar with, well, all the better. Take our choices in Death Metal. We have those everyday staples that we listen to continually without fail. Why? Because they are dependable and they […]
Beautiful. Simply beautiful. This is how I rate this debut by the Belgians ARCHAIC OATH, a Black Metal band that arrives on the global scene this 2026 with a true masterpiece of the genre. They debut with “Determined To Death And Beyond”, an album full of everything: rage, melancholy, atmosphere, darkness and a music that […]
It’s been a bit since we heard from the NUMEN camp. I will admit to being personally excited to hear something new from the band. I’ve been a fan for quite a while now. I say personally, because I am Basque myself, so to have a band from the region I am from and that […]
DELIVERANCE is a Black Metal band from France that I did not know. I had never heard them before. From what I saw, they have been active since 2013 and have an EP and three full-length albums in their history prior to this new album, “The Voyager Golden Banquet”. And well, let’s get to work: […]
Ottawa based POWERRAGE shares more than just a home city with the legendary EXCITER, considering that with John Ricci and Jacques Bélanger, two veterans of that Speed Metal institution, are at the helm. John Ricci (a founding member and in EXCITER until 2018) mentioned about his renewed intention as “Well, with this band I didn’t […]
Let’s just say this up front: what we’re doing here is complaining on a very high level! Perhaps it’s too ambitious – or even presumptuous – to expect ARMORED SAINT to keep writing songs like that forever like they did on their masterpiece “Punching The Sky” a couple of years ago… And yet the album […]
When I first discovered the NWOBHM, I devoured an Italian language book listing all the major albums of the scene. Both for its cover art and its sound, “Dark Waters” could easily have been included among them. In fact, with their third album, the Piedmont based band KONQUEST confirms its status as one of the […]
German trio ARROGANZ came up with their seventh full-length, rather rapidly after the last one, “Quintessenz”, which was released back in 2024. This new record titled “Death Doom Punks” comes with a line-up change and an amplified sense of purpose with hammering out a style they have refined since their beginning in 2008. And with […]
Oh, yeah! Time for Epic Heavy Metal! Fucking love it! BATTLEROAR is an Epic Heavy Metal band from Greece formed in 2000 and (at this point) they need no introductions, I think. For me, getting this new material from them has been such a fantastic pleasure. I have mentioned it many times, whenever I see […]
Even though we had to wait five long years since VENOM’s last EP, “Pentagram” from 2021, to return to a full-length album, there is no doubt that there is one and only one VENOM and that they fucking rule! To speak of VENOM today, in 2026, with this new album called “Into Oblivion”, is to […]