“Heathen” is the seventh full-length album by the Norwegian band AETERNUS, just released by Dark Essence Records. They are a pretty known name in the Norwegian Black Metal underground, since they were born in 1993. Ares (vocals and guitars) is the only original member still involved in this project, that defines its style as Dark […]
With THEM, we meet a band that should not be confused with the old band from Northern Ireland with Van Morrison that was active in the 1960s especially. Here we deal with THEM from the USA and Germany, an international band that not coincidentally has the same name as an album of KING DIAMOND. The […]
It would be a waste having more than one guitar and one just tagging along the other, playing the same chords or notes. That much is clear after lending your ears to "Element". To make it sound a bit dramatic, the music on this album is very much so. The guitars are painted with easily […]
In the year of 2013, some unearthly energy bursted out from the depths of the Norwegian wilderness. They called themselves SEPULCHER. The precipitous mountainsides, dipping rivers and desolate lack infested west coast of Norway, always hints a place of isolated and desolate wonder but this Fusa land is smugly honking and worshipping the sound that […]
Norway has a long and proud heritage of producing Black Metal bands, but when it’s comes to traditional Heavy / Speed Metal, it’s a brazen land to seek out. However, the spirit of the glory days is transcendental and keeps taking forms to express itself defying the time and space. BLACK VIPER took form in […]
After the self-titled EP in 2016 AVAST are now presenting their debut full-length. The opener ‘Mother Culture’ convinces with blasting drums and fast tremolo picking guitars with a slight melodic touch, a frantic screaming (high, but not too high) vocalist and keyboard passages perfectly fitting into this setting. Somewhat a mixture of EMPEROR and NAGLFAR. […]
Whenever original KISS guitar player Ace Frehley releases a new solo album, I immediately notice what I do miss on all of the KISS records without him. Ace might not be the best singer in the world of Rock music and not all of his songs are killers, but it has always been the diversity […]
Quick and to the point. Judging from two full-lengths by Florida’s GNOSIS, the band doesn’t waste any time noodling around with their songs. As some bands feel the need to write lengthy songs, or offer an overabundance of tracks per album, overstaying their welcome, GNOSIS have weeded out the unnecessary and have stuck with the […]
At first I was little bit skeptic, because the band’s name NACHTLIEDER (songs of the night) evoked associations of nursery rhymes and children songs. This connotation is not totally wrong, but "Lynx" is more some kind of fairy story for adults. An eerie fairy tale of darkness, melancholy and the enigmas of night. Just take […]
Putrid. It’s the word that comes to mind while listening to DAGORATH from Poland. Putrid Black Metal done really well. Which means plenty of riffs mostly executed via tremolo picking, slowing-downs, clean bits, even dual guitar attack and guitar solos – but all within the context of aforementioned putridness. The vocals are a standard Black […]