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Had anyone feared that Freiburg’s Finsterforst might have opted for a radical departure from the winning formula of their last album Rastlos, rest easy. Not only is that atmospheric pagan metal sound still fully intact, this might as well be… Continue Reading →
Caïna (pronounced keye-nah, not kay-nah) have been a staple within the underground since 2004; the band went on a hiatus in 2011, only to return in 2013, and it would seem a break has done them good. While always firmly… Continue Reading →
“Squidheads, squidheads roly-poly squidheads. Sqidheads, squidheads, eat em up yum!” Well not quite as far as this calamari enthused one man project from Belgium is concerned as it is purely instrumental but if you made up your own words and sang… Continue Reading →
The big guns are keen to get blazing at the start of 2015 and Marduk are quick off the mark to fire it up with studio album number 13. Its thematically a return to the trenches as well, citing their… Continue Reading →
Raise those horns everyone – and let me see those fists in the air! Oh Yes – The third album from German Metallers Alpha Tiger has arrived…and it’s a full-on Metal-fest! OK, I know the other two were hardly jazz-rock,… Continue Reading →
Some `retro’ style releases are more convincing than others; with some bands you get the impression that they missed the point of the original genre of yesteryear that they are trying to emulate. Not so with Gdansk-based Repulsor, who absolutely… Continue Reading →
Formed in Switzerland in 1994, GURD rose from the ashes of the Power-Thrash band Poltergeist. Taking a different direction, the band adopted a more crunch and groove orientated sound, and 21 years on they’re still going. Having toured with the… Continue Reading →
2012’s debut ‘Summoning Black Gods’ was an absolute smasher and now the German death metal crew are back with another killer record ‘The Mysterious Ways Of Repetitive Art’. On this album the band have clearly matured and have developed a… Continue Reading →
The label says it all, really. HPGD. Horror, Pain, Gore, Death. Inferion should know about this as they’ve been doing it since 1995, now releasing album number three. An all-out assault is the greeting. With shades of Behemoth in the… Continue Reading →
German Power Metal has a history, a tradition. If you are going to step up and be the future of German Power Metal then you have to make damn sure you have it’s past covered. You can’t cover it all… Continue Reading →
Melkor has been for the most part a single man black metal project since its inception in 2004. This can mean a high degree of introspection and anger. There is some but what is remarkable about “Irrlicht”, Melkor’s second album,… Continue Reading →
I don’t normally get my hands on the more brutal death metal releases but this one turned up just before Xmas, got a play and then got a few more, keeping my levels of anger in balance over the festive… Continue Reading →