I recently reviewed SERPENT RIDER from Seattle, and now I have their twin from France, PALANTYR. Plenty of similarities abound between the two bands. Both female-fronted and both are playing a sound heavily influenced by the late ’70s and early ’80s traditional Power Metal scene that was at the forefront of that time. The song […]
Decaying Death / Doom from Denmark? Sign me up! Holy everything Danish including UNDERGANG, what we have here is a demo from a new band called FOETOREM which can probably put some well produced full-lengths to shame in production. This could be a demo, but the musicianship is absolutely top-notch. The vocals are pitch-perfect, the […]
US Death Metal quintet METAPHOBIC is finally back with their massive debut album “Deranged Excruciations”, crafting the perfect mix between old school flavors with plenty of riffs and catchy sections and much more modern dissonances. METAPHOBIC is a five piece Death Metal group from Atlanta, GA. The band recorded their first demo in 2021 at […]
Texan Death Metal in the vein of STABBING with a better drum sound that is limited to just about 25 minutes. PNEUMA HAGION hail from San Antonio, Texas, USA and play a nasty version of Death Metal that we love from the get-go. Without being incredibly repetitive or heavy for the sake of being heavy […]
Italian CANNIBAL CORPSE for your perusal. This is a brilliant shout out to CANNIBAL CORPSE’s late ’90s sound and pays homage in the nicest possible way. BECERUS is an Italian Death Metal band based in beautiful Palermo. The album clocks in nicely at 30 minutes which is actually a little more time than what you […]
From their Bandcamp “One of Europe’s most ferocious entities strikes again! Their last year EP drawn first blood but with “Through Demonic Spell”, the Italian combo FERAL FORMS is definitely going out for the kill. Hailing from Trieste, Italy, FERAL FORMS is a ferocious new beast freshly coagulated from current and former members of GRIME, […]
Only 11:02 minutes divided into four hymns are enough to unleash a new hope in the worldwide underground. Those nooks where you have to deeply search to keep on finding garbage, copycat bands or in this case, a new entity that will deliver you to the purest essence of Black Metal. Quantity has defeated quality, […]
With a band name seemingly citing two other metal bands, these Finns only got together as TORMENTOR TYRANT in 2020. All three of them, however, have been present in the Finnish music scene for a long time, with drummer Juha Karjalainen (aka J. Carnage) and guitarist Sami Iivonen (or S. Envenom) formerly of Death Doomers […]
DARKENHÖLD released their sixth album, “Le Fléau Du Rocher”, a powerful and exciting step forward for this French medieval Black Metal band. After nearly twenty years of making music, these maniacs are still crafting albums that feel both fresh and enticing. Their style of blending dark, melodic Black Metal with stories inspired by ancient legends, […]
Hell, yeah! INSINERATEHYMN is finally back with a new album: “Irreverence Of The Divine”. I still remember when I first heard them back in 2018. It was an impressive band for me. And I’ve been following them since then. So glad they’re back! After their previous albums “Disembodied” from 2022 and their debut “A Moment […]