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Therion & Silent Wedding – Principal Club Theatre, Thessaloniki 11/2/24

It was Sunday, on a weekend after a thunderous Varathron concert where our bodies still ached. This Therion concert was supposed to take place in the same venue, but due to either ticket sales or the large band, it was… Continue Reading →

Funeral Oration – Antropomorte (Avantgarde)

High artistry seems to be the offering here from this cult Italian collective. We are told that this album is lyrically based on works from “poets and artists from different ages.” Antichristian prose is high on the agenda here and… Continue Reading →

Furor Gallico – Future To Come (Scarlet Records)

Furor Gallico have been steadily finding their own identity and refining their sound over their four album career so far. This very accomplished and impressive Italian Folk Metal band have their own approach to this style, granting them their own… Continue Reading →

Varathron, Deviser & Exilium Noctis – Eightball Club, Thessaloniki 10/2/24

Another concert that I eagerly anticipated from the moment it was announced was a legendary presence of two of the most important bands in the “Hellenic” Black Metal scene, who would share the same stage. Firstly, we’re talking about Varathron,… Continue Reading →

Leaves’ Eyes – Myths Of Fate (AFM Records)

This ninth album sort of marks a twenty year anniversary since Leaves’ Eyes’ first album, ‘Lovelorn’, was released in 2004 and since that time they have spearheaded the symphonic metal genre and spawned the creation of hundreds of other bands… Continue Reading →

Sonata Arctica – Clear Cold Beyond (Atomic Fire)

Last time I covered Sonata Arctica, one of the long established titans of European Power Metal, they didn’t impress me at all. Their work was, putting it bluntly… Shite. It lacked that energy and spark which the band used to… Continue Reading →

Primordial & March To Die – Eightball Club, Thessaloniki 2/2/24

For a long time, I’ve been waiting for February to come. There was only one reason: concerts. Many metal concerts. In February, every week there was something special happening in Thessaloniki. On February 2nd, once again, Primordial appeared on the… Continue Reading →

Mathilde – 32 Décembre (S/R)

This album with outstanding artwork is a “dark space epic of a person escaping into the most distant constellation of their mind with the help of narcotics”. Although this is Mathilde’s first album, the band has been around for eight… Continue Reading →

Sylvaine – Eg Er Framand (Season of Mist)

Sylvaine and Ave Noctum are already well acquainted, with several glowing reviews of Sylvaine’s studio work and live shows having appeared on our site over the past few years. Of course, those that are familiar with Sylvaine will be used… Continue Reading →

Necrophobic – In The Twilight Grey (Century Media)

Anyone into extreme metal over the last 30 years or so will be familiar with Sweden’s Necrophobic, their long history is testament to their ever enduring ability to release one captivating album after another. Indeed the band broke the black… Continue Reading →

Aborted – Vault Of Horrors (Nuclear Blast)

Perhaps one of the bigger faces of modern Death Metal are Aborted. From their destructive debut The Purity Of Perversion to their classic Goremageddon and beyond, they have proven their worth time and time again. They’re a band who also… Continue Reading →

Leather Lung – Graveside Grin (Magnetic Eye Records)

Substance fuelled Boogie Metal from Boston with this their first full length album being 12 years in the making.  Not that they have been lying in a stupor – they have released several E.P.s and been playing tonnes of shows… Continue Reading →

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