Albums Reviews

The listener might be familiar with the first effort of this band under the name of Beastmilk, but this is the second album as Grave Pleasures. “Motherblood” is the continuation of the improvement that the band started to develop on it’s previous record, where  the heaviness in some guitars was still lacking. “Motherblood” brings that [...]

Do you crave for heavy fuzzing guitars with psych melodies and a retro sound from an era where people were really passionate about music? Kadavar and their new album “Rough Times”, the fourth of their career, is the listener’s answer. Their sound blends Black Sabbath with garage rock, spiced up with a pinch of Led [...]

After 3 years, Belphegor finally returns with a new album of originals. “Totenritual” has the same elements from previous releases and brings their same death / black / thrash metal blasphemy sound, following the same line of work in terms of composition. The album was recorded at Stage One Studios in Germany and in Studio [...]

The new album from Polish death metal band Decapitated was released on 7th of July and is named “Anticult”.  Composed by only eight songs, the highly awaited seventh studio full-length took three years to make and shows us a band which sounds more mature and becomes closer to the Death/Groove scene, rather than the Technical [...]

dEmotional is a Swedish band which mixes melodic death metal with alternative and electronic elements. “Discovery” is their 3rd full-length effort. In a first impression, it continues the style explored in the previous 2 records “Tarassis” (2014) and “State Of Denial” (2013). Even if the most famous expressions in the music scene is “punk’s not [...]

Few bands can deliver a strong message and develop a story-line with just a few words. Or in Stömb’s case practically none. Specially in Metal, where the diversity of sonic landscapes is not so easily procured. Stömb does all that and still makes the sound breech to new found places, and without the aid of [...]

One of the maximum exponents from the Norwegian black metal scene, Satyricon, is back with the ninth chapter of its career, titled “Deep Calleth Upon Deep”. Just like a fine wine, this masterpiece contains eight superb tracks and needs to be absorbed track by track until its complete fusion in our minds and hearts, leading [...]

Hailing from France, Ethmebb is an independent 4-piece epic progressive death metal band with folk and symphonic elements. The group is composed by Damien Baissile (Drums), Rémi Molette (Vocals, Guitars), François Zillon (Bass, Backing Vocals), Victor Gnôle (Guitars, Backing Vocals). After releasing their first EP called “Lost My Grind” in 2013, the band recorded and released [...]

Almost two years after Lemmy passed away, the remaining members of Motorhead decided to release a covers album called “Under Cover”. This new Motorhead release, came from an idea that they had while Lemmy was still alive, paying themselves tribute to other great bands as well. Catching some of us by surprise, this compilation of [...]

Eight years after “Evocation I – The Arcane Dominion”, the second totally acoustic album of the Swiss pagan band Eluveitie is released under the title “Evocation II: Pantheon”. Compared to the first effort, this new record presents more matured songs and introduces the new members to the fan. These people seem to give everything that [...]

The new album of Arch Enemy is kept in the same line of work as their predecessors, as we can hear in this new opus of rebellion “Will To Power”. Alissa White-Gluz debuted as singer of the band in 2014 participating in the “War Eternal” album. With everything to prove in a band with this magnitude [...]

One of the most waited records of the year is finally out, and the listener can finally decipher what’s behind “Codex Omega”, the new opus of the Greek band Septicflesh. The album was recorded with the participation of “The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra”, known for other collaborations with the band in previous records. This [...]

Evenline is a 4-piece alternative metal band from France. Its composed by Arnaud Gueziec (vocals), Fabrice Tedaldi (guitar), Thomas Jaegle (bass), Julien Patoue (drums). Their discography counts with the EP “The Coming Life” (2010), full-length album “Dear Morpheus” (2014) and now the second LP by Evenline – In Tenebris (2017). One thing that the listener [...]

Black March is another promising French Black Metal act which also presents some Thrash Metal influences. Coming from Toulouse, France, the band was formed in 2011 and released an EP “Oderint Dum Metuant” (2014), which received good press critiques. Three years after that, the awaited full-length debut comes in the form of “Praeludium Exterminii”. After [...]