Category ALBUM
Nope don’t get all excited those of you who like pantomime metal and bangs and explosions on stage, this is not the British NWOBHM Hell. It is a band like Amarok who they share this 2 track split album with… Continue Reading →
How much of a disappointment is it when you look forward so much to a new album from a favourite band and they might as well have taken a big steaming dump on your chest? ‘St. Anger’, ‘Cold Lake’, ‘Nostradamus’… Continue Reading →
An amusing aside: The Metal Archives don’t think Nashville Pussy are metal enough for inclusion but Sonata Arctica are. But there again they keep blacklisting From The Bogs Of Aughiska, too so maybe just another ‘file under clique bullshit ‘…… Continue Reading →
Frenetic, psychologically challenging black metal is the greeting. I expected this, having reviewed Hail Spirit Noir’s previous bizarre work “Pneuma” (2012). Once again, ideas come at you from all angles. “Blood Guru” is exciting and colourful with its complex infrastructure…. Continue Reading →
When are two EPs not two EPs? When it’s Ukrainian masters of their own destiny Drudkh, it seems. You see three quarters of the Winterfylleth split also make up three sevenths of the Eastern Frontier In Flames EP, with the… Continue Reading →
If you’re a prog rock fan and you’ve never heard about Legend, it might be somewhat understandable, since their name isn’t referred that often over rock’s most reputed and trustworthy news sources. However, if you consider yourself to be an avid… Continue Reading →
Japan’s Blaze and their ‘Rock Dinosaur’ is their follow up EP to the stunning self-titled debut that landed this way a while back. This band may hark back to the glory days of hard rock and metal and the EP… Continue Reading →
Waldgeflüster (‘Forest Whispers’ for non-fluent German speakers like myself who were worried about having their err… ‘waldges’ flustered), started out as being the solo black metal project of multi-instrumentalist Winterherz in 2005. This is his third full length album, featuring… Continue Reading →
So if We All Die (Laughing) are you going to deliver a Killing Joke? Well this debut certainly delivers something and behind the mirth we have a familiar face in the form of ex Carnival Of Coal muse Arno Strobl… Continue Reading →
What a great production for an unsigned band! Switzerland’s Broken Fate are still without a deal despite releasing high standard demos for a few years now, but I reckon this is a good move – put out a mini album… Continue Reading →
French metal acts have a tendency to twist and distort your view of how a metal style should sound and for the most part this debut sits safely in the realms of modern technical death metal but initially on “LFDY”… Continue Reading →
This Ohio based one man death metal project ‘s second full length is a concept album. Using the stylings of 20th Century Sci-Fi Horror maestro H.P. Lovecraft as a muse ‘The Gate and the Key’ tells the tale of an intrepid… Continue Reading →