Albums Reviews

 At the 11th album “Rulebreaker”, Primal Fear release their best album so far, always with the formula that is so characteristic to the heavy metal genre, blinking an eye to the Judas Priest riffing style, that always had left a smile on our faces. What the listener can find here is a journey through time, [...]

Faith & Spirit are certainly one of those bands that took the revivalism very seriously and don’t waiver when admitting it. They are a kind of a band that relive an era, with no bullshit or reinterpretations. The sound is made to be very faithful, and pleasant, portraying an era full of good memories. More [...]

 Fusing a retro hard rock sound with the 70’s boogie, Scorpion Child offer us a challenge called “Acid Roulette”, that will certainly delight the fans of the genre, and gather some more to their camp. What we can find in this new album are songs very well composed,with catchy riffing, and lovely transitions, as we’ll [...]

 The queen of metal, Doro Pesch returns with a live album, 3 DVD, and 2 Blu-Ray named “Strong and Proud”, a proper box to celebrate 30 years of career, performing live during 2013 and 2014, touring the world extensively for a year and by playing three official anniversary shows. The tour kicked off impressively in [...]

 The band and UDR Records decided to record the shows of November 20th and 21st of 2015 in Munich, Germany, trying to foreseen what could have been the swansong for Lemmy, and deliver later something for the fans to remind and cheer, what Motorhead used to do better: a right in your face performance of [...]

 The Swedish guitar “virtuoso” returns with a new album called “World on Fire”. As one of the most famous guitar players of hard rock / classic heavy metal, someone with the mastery of Yngwie Malmsteen needs no introduction, just our ears so we could listen and try to keep up with some of the notes [...]

After a successful release of the double album ”Juggernaut”, the 6-piece band comes back with an album to be the sequel of ”Periphery” and ”Periphery II: This Time It’s Personal”. Although the album has all the influences from the previous releases, it is obvious the band is more solid and more mature than ever. With [...]

 The Brazilian thrashers Nervosa are back with their second album “Agony”. Counting with a formation composed by women (Fernanda Lira on vocals / bass, PrikaAmaral guitars / back vocals, and PitchuFerraz on drums), they present to us a strong thrash record about society flaws, social revolt, and political issues without going very into deep, but [...]

 Coming from the Netherlands, the gore grinders Rectal Smegma have presented to us their new album, the fifth of their career, “Gnork”. This record is just short of 31 minutes completed with blasting grind,  some kind of sludge / punk production,  all the elements that we could find in a grindcore record such has drilling pig [...]

 “The Age of Aquarius” is the new album of Gloomy Grim, arriving 8 years after the last release of the Finnish black metal band. With a new guitarist Micko Hell, Agathon (who did vocals and keyboards) and his bandmates (Lord Heikkinen– Guitar, NukklearTormentorr– Bass, and Suntio – Drums) deliver another horror tale, balanced between dark [...]

Portugal is becoming a nest of good underground projects, and most of them, are a force not to be taken lightly on stage. The second album of Brutal Brain Damage shows us a great evolution of a young band, which has everything to be one of those powerful forces live. The listener can find is [...]

The German grindcore scene is really big, so it is tough to get a band with fresh ideas, a mind blowing sense of humor, and good structured songs. The last full length CD of Kadaverficker “Nekrokore is Love”, is exactly that during its twenty seven minutes of duration. When it comes to grindcore, we find [...]

  Jorn Lande, one of the most iconic hard rock singers of our time, after a prolific 2013 with 2 great albums “Symphonic”, and “Traveller”, returns in 2016 with a covers album called “Heavy Rock Radio”. Known not also for a solid solo career, but also for participating on Avantasia, Jorn opens up his box to [...]

After a hiatus from albums for almost 7 years, the Swedish black metal band Dark Funeral returns with “Where Shadows Forever Reign”. Lord Ahriman (who did guitars and bass for the record) and his bandmates (Chaq Mol on guitars, Dominator on drums, and Heljarmadr on vocals), pick up from where the band left of and [...]