Albums Reviews

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 [...]

Formed in 2015 in Rochester city, Mavradoxa is a talented duo comprised by Nival (vocals, guitar and bass) and Lux (vocals and drums). Less than a year after their debut album, “Sojourners”, this Laurentian Black Metal band returns with their second full-length, “Lethean Lament”, out via Hypnotic Dirge Records. This album offers the listeners approximately one hour [...]

First and foremost, “Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs”’ dichotomy is the Holy Grail of modern times: it makes older fans remember how good “Sahara” or “Mabool” were and explains to new fans why Orphaned Land are an unparalleled band, still musically interesting and relevant. Music wise, “Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs” is an extravagance reserved [...]

Coming from Kyiv and active since 2007, Vin de Mia Trix started their career with a crushing and extremely dark funeral doom musical approach. Now, after a four-year hiatus since their previous full-length, the band came up with their newest work “Palimpsests”, and they sure live up to this name! A Palimpsest is a manuscript [...]

The Austrian duo Summoning have return after five years, to take us all back (once again) to the world of Tolkien, with their new album “With Doom We Come”. After a great album like “Old Mornings Dawn”, the listener can expect a continuation, with similar orchestrations, the same line of work around minimalist riffs, enough [...]

In their previous record Carach Angren warned us that “This is no fairytale”, but as soon as you dive into “Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten” you will be tempted to think the opposite. The atmospheric and eerie sound of the “Opening”’s piano and violin will transport you to a mysterious fairytale-like scenario: an old [...]

A concert is more than just music: it’s a journey, an experience. A moment of our lives entirely dedicated to a band. And Blind Guardian seem to be pretty aware of that. With “Live Beyond the Spheres” they give us a recollection of the best live songs from their 2015 European Tour. 33 years and [...]

Brutality is a feature that many bands on extreme Metal genres are always looking for, but many can’t fuse it with a good quality approach. Some try to play as raw as they can, or faster than anyone else or even tuning down the instruments is supposed to do the trick. But, if you don’t [...]

How many bands do you know which have ceased to exist while being at their peak? The French band Arkhon Infaustus is one of them. Ten years after the release of the magnificently filthy “Orthodoxyn” album, we are presented with some new material. Deviant, the only remaining member from the original lineup, is backed by drummer [...]

Backtrack Lane, the band of the Gatti brothers, Raphael (vocals, bass) and Stefan (rhythm guitar, backing vocals) was formed back in 2009. In 2012 the band released its debut full-length “Black Truth&White Lies”. In 2017 the quartet completed by Adrien Crestey (lead guitar, backing vocal) and Gui O’Crest (drums, backing vocals) released “In Fine”. As [...]

If you are a fan of Agalloch you might be acquainted with their last year’s split. From this broken home, two projects were born: Khôrada (ex Agalloch’s members Dan Anderson, Jason Walton and Aesop Dekker, plus Aaron Gregory from Giant Squid) and Pillorian (with the former Agalloch John Haughm, Stephen Parker of Maestus and Trevor [...]

It’s been 10 years since the release of “Antichrist”, and now the British band Akercocke is back with a new record named “Renaissance in Extremis”. After an hiatus that lasted from 2012 to 2016, they returned with a new line up. Nathanael Underwood and Sam Loynes, have joined the band as a bass player and [...]

Dementia debut album “Persona” is very hard to pinhole into one genre. This French band provides a solid dose of hard guitar based music that dwells somewhere between rock and metal. Persona starts with an Intro track and after that there is a mix of fast and heavy, catchy and doom like tracks. “Too Long”, alongside [...]

Disfigured Human Mind and Insomnia Isterica have joined forces to bring us another split, “Morbid Schizophrenic Minds in the Cabaret Noisecore”. This is just one of the many that both bands have made with so many other bands along their lifespan, released through Murder Records and L’è Tütt Folklor Records. An effort that could have [...]