While doing a very well received UK tour with Black Moth, the band Grave Lines showcased some new songs and announced that a new album would be coming out soon. With the revealing of the album title and release date came a music video of the same name: “Fed Into The Nihilist Engine”. We got [...]
April 16, 2018
Luís Rodrigues
Albums
Entering the realm of Primordial’s music is an experience that involves so much more than just listening. It’s a mystical journey to a place where Europe’s spirits and pagan Celtic roots come back to life and guide us through a path of beauty, inner strength, communion with nature, and sorrow. Like its predecessor, “Exile Amongst [...]
April 10, 2018
Rita Limede
Albums
After an entirely homemade debut EP (“Storm Born”), the Portuguese one-man-project A Constant Storm, led by Daniel Laureano (Stormbringer), managed to put together his first full-length: “Storm Alive” (2016). This time with the collaboration of Ricardo Pereira (vocals) and Afonso Aguiar (production and drum programming), which revealed to be of substantial relevance to the upgrade [...]
April 9, 2018
Carolina Ventura
Albums
Across History, we find many musical works that pay homage to the dead and “Mirror Reaper” is one remarkable and ominous example of that. Comprised by Dylan Desmond (6-string bass and vocals) and Jesse Shreibman (drums, vocals and organ), Bell Witch, a Funeral Doom duo from Seattle, just emerged with a new work filled with [...]
April 6, 2018
Carolina Ventura
Albums
If there’s a band committed to the Rock n’ Roll legacy, it is without a doubt these French fellas from Montpellier, place where founding brothers Ben and Romain Chambert were born and raised. Highway present the fans with “IV”, their 4th and most powerful album to date. Just as you would expect from true Rock n’ Rollers [...]
April 2, 2018
Vasco Baptista
Albums
There is nothing like starting a new year with a new release, and that’s exactly what happened with the Portuguese band Sinistro. Their 3rd full-length album, “Sangue Cassia”, arrived on the first days of the year. We find in Sinistro’s global work a raw and irrefutable doom known for its dense and dark atmosphere which had [...]
March 30, 2018
Carolina Ventura
Albums
Moonshine Oversight has released their debut album ’Vanishing Lines’ at the end of last year. The French group is providing a nice progressive rock tunes, and what took me by surprise – their first record immediately start from very high position. The album starts with the instrumental piece “Moonrise”, which is a kind of an [...]
March 29, 2018
Kasper Pasinski
Albums
Funeral Tears is a solo project of Nicolay Seredov from Russia – who is also known from the black metal band Taiga. This project is providing to the doom scene since 2007. ‘Beyond The Horizon’ is the third full length album of Funeral Tears, and the follow-up work of ‘The World We Lost’, released in [...]
March 25, 2018
Kasper Pasinski
Albums
Black Mamba is an Italian female fronted rock group that gained experience by covering many of their hard rock heroes. Their feats include Italy live acts supporting bands like Blaze Bayley and Carl Palmer. “Heritage” is their debut record released already in December 2017. The album starts with the title track ‘Heritage’ which after a calm [...]
March 23, 2018
Kasper Pasinski
Albums, EPs
Once in a while, an underground band emerges from the huge pile of unoriginal repetitiveness that infects the current metal scene. Moebius, standing out with their work quality, is definitely one of those cases. They can be pictured as a mixing bowl, with some Tool, Uneven Structure, Meshuggah and a pinch of Xerath. This seems [...]
March 22, 2018
Filipe Gomes
Albums
Devangelic, the blasphemous brutal death metal act from Italy, have released their new full length album entitled “Phlegeton” on Comatose Music. This is the follow up work to their already critically acclaimed album “Resurrection Denied” from 2014. Christianity is once again desecrated on this album, but with a darker and more mature take this time. [...]
March 14, 2018
Luís Pinto
Albums
Belgian Lethvm have been busy making people drop their jaws with “This Fall Shall Cease”, released in November 2017. What we have here is a fine record consisting of doom metal meets sludge and then reinforced by extreme metal, which gives the album a much-needed dynamic in order to not become something sullen or even [...]
March 13, 2018
João Correia
Albums
Paris-based, Soror Dolorosa don’t just play music, they turn nostalgia into sound waves and create a perfect atmosphere to relive all kind of memories: those we carry with us, those we lost, and those that are yet to come. Listening to Soror Dolorosa is like entering a different dimension where the time ceases to exist [...]
March 3, 2018
Carolina Ventura
Albums
Wedingoth is coming back after four years with new material. This French prog metal band asked their fans to wait for quite a long time. Adopting a combination of gothic female fronted metal with the typical progressive metal musicianship is a strong point for fans of both genres. The band led by Steve Segarra is [...]
February 27, 2018
Kasper Pasinski
Albums