Category ALBUM
There’s something satisfying about Ramage Inc’s music. I first became acquainted with them in 2013 both through their album “Feel the Waves”, which I bought at the time, and their dynamic appearances at ProgPower Europe in the same year and… Continue Reading →
If you are not familiar with Brooklyn NYC’s Gravesend then click here for my review of their debut album. It is killer (the album not the review – although it is quite witty and well thought out but I digress). All… Continue Reading →
Doro, metal queen indeed, is less than a year older than me. Considering how long I’ve been listening to her that is a sobering realisation. I have immense respect for her as an artist and a person – she has… Continue Reading →
Although I had brief communication with musician Efraah Enhsikaah asking about review possibility, there is hardly any information available about the mysterious artist and I thought it would be impertinent to dig for further facts. In this time of everything… Continue Reading →
This album is described as “an occult rock opera dimming the lines between first wave black metal, classic heavy metal and progressive rock”. “Vertumnus Caesar” is the group’s third album release in five years. The strange intro takes us back… Continue Reading →
Cover albums are not only a good way for a band to express their interests but also can allow them the freedom of expression. I’m stating the obvious here but it all stems down to the choices the band make… Continue Reading →
If you scour the internet as I do looking for obscure stuff back in dungeons of the late 80s and 90s then you have probably come across many split releases in extreme metal, many of which are absolutely brilliant and… Continue Reading →
Thrash. Man I love Thrash. There is something about the combination of riffing, groove and tone in this genre which just appeals to me on a fundamental musical level. Perhaps it is due to the fact Thrash formed the core… Continue Reading →
The corpse is bloated, noxious gasses escaping from every conceivable orifice as it settles on the slab prior to the mortician impaling it and cutting open. Organs will be removed and plonked into stainless-steel receptacles, the brain examined and dissected… Continue Reading →
I adored this French duo’s debut album, ‘The Eternal Harvest’, released in February 2022 which I reviewed for the site back then, it was a superlative example of how to construct emotive atmospheric black metal but with abundant aggression. It… Continue Reading →
If the title of this album sounds like some grandiose prog album from the 1970s, then the accompanying publicity suggests that this isn’t so far out. Nods are given to bands like Dream Theater, Threshold, Rush, Tesseract, Haken and Vola… Continue Reading →
So, Cirith Ungol fans. New album. Off you go, pre-order it. You know you want to and it will not disappoint. Right, have they gone? Good. You see as a long term fan of this genuinely unique band there is… Continue Reading →