Atmospheric Post Black Metal! ANOMALIE is an Austrian one-man band that sees Chris Marrok as its sole member and on all instruments, although since the 2015 album “Refugium” we also see the presence of Lukas Schlintl on drums. “Riverchild”, the band’s fifth full-length, is released as its predecessors by AOP Records – a German label […]
BLACK CURSE drowns deeper into the depths of extreme Metal than ever before. This album is like monumental chaos and malevolence, something between Black, Death and Doom, which creates a sound that releases not only music, but an entire dark ritual. Since the beginning, this release sets the noise with intensity, unleashing a blackened storm […]
Another old-style Power Metal band to grace my review table and from Greece again no less. As I’ve mentioned in some prior reviews, this type of sound holds a fondness in my heart, because I grew up on bands from the LA area that had much the same sound as LEATHERHEAD. There are touches of […]
BEDSORE are a progressive Heavy Metal band hailing from Rome, Italy. “Dreaming The Strife For Love”, released by 20 Buck Spin, represents the band’s second and newest full-length, the follow-up to 2020’s “Hypnagogic Hallucinations”. BEDSORE came armed with a cadre of instruments for “Dreaming The Strife For Love”, including classical guitars, fretless bass, organs, mellotrons, […]
RECKLESS MANSLAUGHTER, from Germany, return with their fourth full-length album, “Sinking Into Filth”, released via Memento Mori on CD. This album features eight tracks that dive deep into the band’s signature blend of Death Metal. Known for their relentless, crushing sound, RECKLESS MANSLAUGHTER’s latest offering does not disappoint. From the very first moment, it’s clear […]
When I checked AIWAZ’s “Darrkh… It is!” Bandcamp page, I was met with a rather interesting explanation of what the band sounded like, it read that AIWAZ is a top notch mix of QUEENSRYCHE, SOLITUDE AETURNUS, MARILLION, GHOST and MY DYING BRIDE! And that the music was more epic than epic, with a very strong […]
Germany, home to some of the prime fathers of Speed and Thrash Metal in the 1980s, still seems to be churning out many new bands who pay homage to the old gods. After the great success of bands such as VULTURE in recent years, MECHANIC TYRANTS from Nuremberg in Bavaria set out in 2021 to […]
How much manic grin can you get? That is most likely what one would anticipate when listening to OBNOXIOUS YOUTH’s most recent assault, “Burning Savage.” You can’t really point a finger to define proper terminology for this Swedish-Finnish powerhouse, as they were here to redefine the perfect fusion of Heavy, Speed, Punk, Thrash and Black […]
What if early KREATOR and SADUS met together in a dark alley? I think the end result would probably end up sounding like DISARRAY. Hailing from Sweden and looking quite young for the quality of the material and also to be paying tribute to the bands mentioned above who got their start oh so many […]
If you want to point out a country that contributed significantly to the survival and resurgence of Heavy Metal during and after the nineties of the last century, then it is Greece! SPEEDRUSH join a long line of bands who have taken the old school spirit in deeply, but not only preserve the fire, but […]