Albums Reviews

VOR is a Spanish sludge duo which released their second full length album, “Depravador” this year via Third I Rex label. This album consists of 7 main tracks plus 2 bonuses. It all starts with the album ‘s title track – ‘Depravador’. A 9 minutes song of uncompromised rusty noise. The track builds up on [...]

Revelations of the Red Sword is the sophomore LP effort by the Icelandic blasphemers Svartidauði. The album is to be released on December 3rd on Ván Records, coming six years after the very celebrated Flesh Cathedral. Note that this Satanic Vikings have not been idling, with three EPs released in between both albums, each of [...]

Mils is a French band from Montpellier, that presented a mixture of rock, new wave and industrial with small hints of few other genres. Their latest record ‘We Fight I We Love’ was released on the 17th of May, 2017 in cooperation with the Doowet Agency. The record starts with ‘Come Home’, an easy to listen, [...]

 Sunny Philadelphia often births certain musical acts which are the antithesis of their habitat, as is the case with Horrendous. This death metal group has captured the attention of the international metal community by signing with one of the labels industry’s titans, Season Of Mist, who released their fourth full-length album, “Idol”. But are Horrendous [...]

First of all, let me just say that “Beneath A Godless Sky” is about as kickass as band names usually get. Let’s see if the sound matches the tag! This Parisian progressive metal outfit released a debut self-titled EP that, in their own words, mixes “Progressive, Heavy and Melodic” elements in order to illustrate their [...]

There are some music sub-genres which are not easy to review. Ambient/Drone releases are a good example. Due to its minimalist nature and structure, analyzing something which sometimes doesn’t seem to have a real beginning nor end is a troublesome challenge. Still, anyone can listen to this kind of music, enjoy some and dislike others. [...]

The Way Of Purity are an industrial metal outfit with absolutely no fear of making reporters lives harder by purposely providing little to no information about their country of origin and members, with the exception of their artistic personas. These arguably noble anti-aesthetic ideals, deeply rooted in the band’s modus operandi, are accompanied by their representative [...]

A respectable amount of particularly morbid and insane details come to mind when one thinks of Deicide. This band has been marked by controversy ever since its inception, most of it due to frontman Glenn Benton’s “peculiar” ways of expressing himself, to put it mildly. Even though, Deicide seem to have mostly left their well-known [...]

The French sludge/doom outfit Deliverance has an impressive curriculum for such a recent project. Formed in 2012, their debut EP “Doomsday Please” reached as far as being praised by Metal Injection. About five years later, the band releases their first LP, titled “CHRST”, which proved that Deliverance, albeit remaining rough around the edges, have what [...]

Dallian is a four-piece Symphonic Metal act from Leiria, Portugal. Their debut album ‘Automata’ was released this year together with Nox Liberatio records. The album starts with an intro entitled ‘Genesis of Awakening’. This is a short journey into the first proper track called ‘Satori’, translated as ‘awakening’ in Japanese. This song is built by strong [...]

Korpiklaani are back to bless the folk metal hordes with their drunken mix of folk, rock, punk and metal. Often considered one of the greatest folk metal bands of all time, the high-spirited finns have added yet another gem to their career. To some extent, Korpiklaani have always been under fire, often being criticized for [...]

Duality is the debut record from the French progressive band Orion Dust.  The band leader and mentor, Fabien Buron, has been working on this piece of music since 2011. This album is the culmination of almost seven years of work. During this time, he involved other musicians which are now part of the band. Now, [...]

  “Drifting Ashore” is the debut album of the French folk rock duo Crossfire. Together with The Black Planet we have a chance to break another border and review something totally different thanks to Dooweet Agency. Starting with the sound itself, its mostly calm acoustic guitars. They are accompanied by the nice, fair voices that can [...]

Four years have passed since the critically acclaimed triumphant return of At The Gates, which in turn succeeded a twenty year long hiatus after the band left an undeniable mark on the 90’s with at least one genre-defining album and other great releases. At War With Reality (2014) left me with the feeling of greeting [...]