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Author Demitri Levantis

Demitri Levantis is a music journalist from London with over 10 years of experience scribbling and arguing about music. He is a complete nerd for black metal and nearly all other metal genres and has played drums in metal bands for over a decade and a half. Being an outspoken opponent of all things right wing, his aim as a journalist is to promote real, forward thinking metal and showing idiotic NSBM bands the door – accompanied by the metaphorical boot.

Cloak – Black Flame Eternal (Season of Mist)

Like all metal genres, black metal has its share of sub-genres born from bands combining elements of other genres into their audible output. Ask anyone who listens to black metal what its most renowned sub-genres are and you will most… Continue Reading →

Immortal – War Against All (Nuclear Blast)

When the classic lineup of a band changes it’s understandable for fans to worry if their signature sound will be compromised in any way. Case in point: Norwegian black metal veterans Immortal faced such anxieties in the middle of the… Continue Reading →

Frozen Soul – Glacial Domination (Century Media)

Like all other metal genres there are numerous sub-genres or styles associated with the evolution of bands and the genre communities they represent. Death metal is no stranger and it is now a firm belief in my mind that a… Continue Reading →

Deathstars – Everything Destroys You (Nuclear Blast)

Deathstars, leaders of the current milieu of gothic, industrial and electronic related metal have again peaked their heads above the parapet to give us another fun and memorable piece of metal that can have a club dancing within seconds. Everything… Continue Reading →

Tanith – Voyage (Metal Blade)

One thing that has kept me and many other metalheads into metal for the best part of our lives is how the world appeals to those who never lost their childhood sense of adventure. And because of that, it is… Continue Reading →

Decipher – Arcane Paths to Resurrection (Transcending Obscurity)

After six years on the road Greece’s black metal unit, Decipher have finally graced the airwaves with their debut studio album. Arcane Paths to Resurrection is the kind of release that gives the exact same vibes as foreshadowed by it’s… Continue Reading →

Smoulder – Violent Creed of Vengeance (Cruz del Sur Music)

It’s one of the bigger cliches of metal music that its followers are obsessed with all things sword and sorcery. Therefore, it is no wonder that entire sub-genres of metal exist devoted wholly to the works of the greatest fantasy… Continue Reading →

Tribulation – Hamartia (Century Media)

Returning to the metal stage from their lonesome and windswept homeland of Varmland, Sweden, Tribulation are back with another piece of gothic metal that is vampiric in nature and has wholly abandoned all the death and blackened metal elements of… Continue Reading →

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