Occult Doom Black / Death Metal from Germany. When a band comes from this land, I am always listening. And although I am more a fan of violent Metal, sometimes if done right, some real Doom Metal is always welcome. I do not expect Doom Metal just to be something played at turtle speed, no. […]
The term ‘multinational’ for a band has always been eye brow rising but it could be applied so fittingly with FOLKODIA. Formed back in 2007 by the late Ruslanas Danisevskis, FOLKODIA has seen contributions by musicians from more than 10 different countries, including France, Italy, Argentina, Germany, United States, Greece, Russia and Switzerland which turns […]
Many many years have passed, where I have loathed most of the new bands and music that has come my way. Not much has been going on in the scenes I’ve been following sparsely, either the same recipes have been rehashed to boredom, boredom just occured or soulless music has been delivered in an overflow […]
When I was a teenager, one of the things that made Black Metal so attractive to me was the atmosphere. My family didn’t own a VCR and cinema visits were few and far between, so apart from looking at covers of albums I could not afford in the corner record store, most of my afternoons […]
‘The Eagle Has Landed’, ‘Power And The Glory’, ‘Warrior’, ‘Midas Touch’, ‘Redline’ and my Heavy Stadium Rock Speed Metal favorite of this album ‘This Town Rocks’, are all tracks roaming this ’83 album from SAXON, one of the older albums that don’t get that much praise, which I partly don’t understand. Well, the album is […]
Have you ever listened to an album that is worth buying only for its cover artwork and its title track? "Crusader" by SAXON is a prime example of what I’m talking about. It’s their sixth studio album and it was released in 1984: the last one through the French label Carrere Records, because a year […]
Well, what can one say when reviewing such a classic album? A pillar of metallicness that every Metalhead should be well acquainted with? This is the fourth album by SAXON, released in 1981, the last one of what is regarded as their three truly essential early eighties albums, and the last with the whole classic […]
HATRED DUSK is a French horde from Paris, which was active in the early 90s. They released three demos back then before they took their first long break from 1996 to 2008 and then another short one in 2014. But finally vocalist Phil has put together a new line-up and returns with the first ever […]
Norwegian Thrashers VORBID were formed in 2013. By 2015, they released their first single, followed the next year by their self-titled debut EP. Come 2018 and after two singles, they now have released their debut album "Mind". After my first 3 listens, I got a word stuck in my head: "bold". I can’t remember the […]
Sometimes I’m a real danger seeker… I left it to our editor to pick a record for me to review. His choice was the first release of the Italian three piece QUANTUM HIERARCHY from the town of Brescia. “Neutron Breed” is an EP with just three rather short songs (hence the running time!) plus one […]