Category ALBUM
If you have been looking around for reviews for this one and not found many it is due to the label not making promo available to anyone until the release date. This of course stops the album from being leaked… Continue Reading →
The concept of this album is intriguing. All indications were that this was not going to be some straight laced piece of music. I was right. Features a cover picture of manic monkeys, “Bananas” is on the face and hard-hitting… Continue Reading →
Chicagoans Kommandant first fired across my bows with their Kontakt EP back in 2010 via Planet Metal Records. At the time I declared that the disc gave me a cataclysmic short sharp shock and left me wanting more and finally… Continue Reading →
If you take a pinch of traditional metal (as the PR material suggests) say Dio and a hefty progressive/traditional combination of mid period Savatage, then you have Crimson Cult. This Austrian band have previously been known by many other names,… Continue Reading →
Germany to me has been the lifeblood of traditional heavy metal in historical difficult times, i.e. the 1990’s. Some massive bands have graced us with their presence over the years, but a little over 3 years ago, Germany produced Gravety,… Continue Reading →
If this album really is pyrophoric it could, as I understand it, spontaneously ignite, so I’d better be pretty sharpish writing this review, hadn’t I? Straight down to business then. Greece’s Mencea are the death metal tipping point where complex… Continue Reading →
Different. Italian band seemingly named after a computer game character and inspired by Mesoamerican shamanic occultism and the teachings of Don Juan Matus to Carlos Casteneda concerning the way of the warrior as a primordial power as opposed to the… Continue Reading →
It’s clear from the grandiose title and claims of this Italian band that this was not going to be an ordinary work. Developed over 15 years and lasting 74 minutes, there’s plenty of time for the promised “iconoclastic fury of… Continue Reading →
This Bilbao band cite influences as far reaching as Soundgarden, Bolt Thrower and Autopsy, I kid you not, and throughout my numerous listening experiences with ‘Grengus’, I can honestly say, this is no bullshit. Each and every track is a… Continue Reading →
It’s a cover of wonderfully lurid colours that greets me with the Greek melodic black metal bands debut full length; deep blues, sickly greens and bright blood red. Kind of stops you in your tracks which is probably a good… Continue Reading →
Tim Yatras is the man behind Australian act Germ. You may not know him by that name but you should no doubt have heard of some of the versatile acts he has been involved in. Where to start? Well it’s… Continue Reading →
I enjoy good solid melodies with plenty of heavy guitar riffs and flowing but intricate lead breaks. Words of Farewell have those in spades. Opening track “Project Daybreak” isn’t terribly fast, but then it doesn’t need to be as there… Continue Reading →