This new SNAKEPIT issue definitely came unexpected to me, especially since the grumpy old man from France seems even more pissed off than ever lately! But I can totally understand that. Bands that agreed on an interview shouldn’t back out when a lot of work already went into the preparation. It’s all just a total […]
SYN introduced themselves very recently, around 2023, from the depths of Norway. And it’s always scary to think and wonder, how band after band keeps on sprouting out from this Scandinavian territory and aflame rusty minds with their musicianship and ideas! However, it would not be right to say SYN comes out without warning. SYN’s […]
Looking over the band’s history and taking in the general imagery and presentation of the band and its members, I think we may have a bit of a MGLA clone here. No offense to the band, but I was wrong (you know what they say about judging a book by its cover). Speaking of covers, […]
The first two tracks following the intro, ‘Take The Wheel’ and ‘Dark Skull’, make it clear where the journey is headed: strong, fast-paced Heavy Metal with a touch of epicness and a very clear New Wave Of British Heavy Metal touch . The five-piece band, led by guitarists Matt Ries and Toryin Schadlich, don’t even […]
The third album by the Italian band INNERLOAD has been announced as a Thrash Metal album and one can only wonder who is so deaf. Because for me this is clearly melodic Death Metal, even if it has Thrash Metal elements. But the amount of IN FLAMES like riffing is clearly in the majority and […]
It was the year 2021 when THRONEHAMMER released their second album “Incantation Rites” that immediately blew me away. A lot of moons and even more spins later, this album has become a kind of personal “holy grail” of Doom Metal, an album that a band will probably do only once in their career, an album […]
I think there is a saying “Nothing new is old, nothing old is new”. Forgive me if I got that completely wrong, but when I listen to the latest release from Black’n’Roll purveyors HERETIC, that phrase immediately comes to mind. So, if you take a big part of VENOM, a tad of GEHENNAH, a smidge […]
In May 2021 KISS started to release a series of live soundboard recordings entitled “Off The Soundboard”… Almost at the same time the MOTÖRHEAD counterpart series “The Löst Tapes” was launched. Well, it’s actually more the other way around, because “Off The Soundboard – Tokyo 2001”, the first release from the KISS series, was released […]
No one needs introduction to Norway’s BLOOD RED THRONE. The almost Death Metal royalty have released their latest on Soulseller Records titled “Nonagon”. The album starts off with your typical Death Metal values and that’s a decent thing but honestly doesn’t go anywhere beyond. The better way to express this in my opinion is that […]
I was in Detroit last New Year’s Eve and the now industrial wasteland, left behind by modern technology and globalization is where TEMPLE OF VOID was birthed. I am not a bit surprised by their sound having visited Detroit, I liked the city but the cold pierced me like a chilly reminder of what this […]