THE HERETIC from Spain are active since 1998 and “Gospel Songs In E Minor” is already their third full-length album. The music travels over a wide range of influences, from symphonic and melodic parts, a huge quantity of keyboards to Thrash Metal riffing. The song-structure is fairly progressive, reminding me of the latest ENSLAVED releases. […]
If it comes to Pagan Metal it’s currently more than difficult to avoid the term sellout and see every release as objective as possible. It has started years ago with bands like FINNTROLL and a completely new direction with a lot of interesting influences was born. But as usual the new ideas had become the […]
Interesting. A Thrash / Rock / Heavy Metal band from Paris that has a moniker and logo akin to that of a Death Metal act yet who ultimately sound like RUNNING WILD in their early days mixed with a stack of overlooked, and obscure NWOBHM, altogether delivered in a hefty rollicking roughshod manner. The cover […]
I know that Frediablo is involved in a multitude of musical projects (NECROPHAGIA and GRIMFIST being the most famous), but it is the first time I am exposed to one of his creations, the case in point being the band / project HEMNUR. What can I say? “Satanic Hellride” is maybe a cool album, but […]
It’s a huge pity that I have missed HELRUNAR when they played live here in my surroundings together with BEHEMOTH about 2 weeks ago, as I’d be interested how this threepiece comes along live. Anyhow, it took me quite a long time to start writing this review, not that I think that this album isn’t […]
After a demo (“Grátr”) and their contribution to the limited split CD single with NACHTMAHR (‘Hauch wird Sturm’) we’re finally able to experience the first HELRUNAR full-length album via the fine and always very quality oriented Lupus Lounge label. And it was definitely worth the wait as “Frostnacht” impresses with a very professional production, tasteful […]
This band from Italy revealed itself a so much a good surprise that I can’t help but to find this three tracks offer a little unsatisfying in terms of duration. In fact I would gleefully scream for more, because “Anger Words” appears more than simply convincing! On this HELLWRATH rekindle with the tradition of evilized […]
Formed back in 1984, it is hard to imagine that the band up to this day has only released two full-length albums. The first time I came in contact with the band was through a compilation and their song ‘Torture Chamber’ which is not that hard to forget due to their weird composition and the […]
Coming by way of Poland is HELLVETO’s fourteenth full-length album since 2002, “Wiara, Nadzieja… Potepienie”. It is comprised of 2 discs, the first being Pagan Metal, and the second, of an entirely symphonic nature. I’ll be direct, disc 2 was a tedious exercise in ‘epic’ keyboard music. 3 tracks, none under 20 minutes – this […]
Formed in 1995 this is their 13th release… wow… almost a record to be released every year. This is not my first encounter with this band. I have somewhere their “966” album, and have also heard some more releases and very few things have changed. This is, to start with, a one man band… project… […]