So, you know when you go on those wild rollercoaster rides? The ones that are maybe a bit old but they are full of wild frenetic speed. The the twists, the turns. That small underlying sense that the coaster just might fly off the tracks at any moment? Then in an instant, its all over. […]
This is what I call an eye-catcher of an album cover! A little ant is sitting on the head of an alligator, and the alligator’s mouth can be opened or closed with a zipper. Covers by the well-known artist Hugh Syme are easily recognizable, but to understand the actual idea behind this one, we have […]
Third album from the Berlin based band and again the five-piece stretches itself a little more in terms of sound and audible influences. In the mostly fast, but also technically adept style of their songs, they do have a number of tempo changes and clever breaks, which contributes a lot to the fact that their […]
GRAVE CIRCLES, the Ukrainian Black Metal quartet, has released their second full-length “World Within The World”. Their first full-length “Tome II” was released six years ago and the band kept on releasing singles and an EP, however this latest release bears a powerful statement forged amidst personal tragedy. This album arrives with a heavy heart, […]
After a couple demos and an EP, Wisconsin’s power trio OSSUARY unleashes their debut album “Abhorrent Worship”. After the first spins, the oppressive atmosphere takes hold of the listener. The album feels like a ton of bricks sitting right on your chest. Their sound is massive and it is key to OSSUARY’s type of Death […]
Without any doubt, SAXON is one of the most important bands in the history of Heavy Metal. Being pioneers of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal in 1979, the English guys gained worldwide attention in the early 1980s and released at least three albums that every Metal fan should know. Those who were there […]
If you see the name Johan Langquist you’ll immediately associate it with CANDLEMASS and especially with his iconic voice on the classic “Epicus Doomicus Metallicus”, along with his return and control of the CANDLEMASS vocals department since 2018. But here, with a band like JOHAN LANGQUIST THE CASTLE, he steps away from that to embark […]
When I first heard this band’s debut, I immediately thought, “Okay, these guys are onto something here”. That’s exactly how I felt listening to NAIL BY NAIL’s “Embraced By Darkness.” It’s not that frequent that a band this young, only forming in 2023, drops an album that sounds this good and confident right out of […]
It’s been a long time since we last heard from PESTNEBEL. Almost ten years, to be exact, apart from the split with CURSE OF BELIAL this January. And honestly, at some point, it felt like they might have disappeared for good. But now, out of the silence, they return with their new full-length “Verfall”, released […]
CROCELL are an interesting band from Colombia that play an authentic and evil form of old school Black Metal reminiscent of the early ’90s golden era of the genre. Here we have a double release in one album, produced by the German label Misanthrophia Discos, that includes in a strictly limited edition of 250 copies […]