Albums Reviews

Even though France’s main extreme metal exports are black metal and progressive death metal, it’s sometimes possible to find good surprises if you care to look for them. Such is the case of Creeping Fear, a band that focus its energy on producing classic death metal. Starting with the band’s name, everything on “Onward to [...]

Tankard has been regularly recording albums with great quality, returning with another consistent exercise of thrash metal called “One Foot In The Grave”. This album differs from the previous releases regarding the songs content. The lyrics are a bit more distant from the party mood and the rivers of beer, which they used to invite [...]

“Atrocities From Beyond” is the first Long Play release from the Portuguese band Analepsy. It was recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by Miguel Tereso of Demigod Recordings. Ten songs compose the LP, which are played in thirty minutes of pure destruction and chaos. We can almost describe it as if a dinosaur had entered your home [...]

Two years after the debut EP “Dinocracy” released in 2015, the French Raptor King are releasing another studio effort. Given the good receptivity of the previous EP, it was expected that they would now launch a full-length debut, but the choice of this trio of progressive sludge metal fell to launch a second EP, probably [...]

Jorn Lande is one of those vocalists that need no introduction. Well known in hard rock and metal world due to his solo career, and for the last collaborations with Avantasia, “Life On The Dead Road” is the last record of the Norwegian voice of rock, packed with originals after the previous album of covers, [...]

Drawing its name from Exhumed and Repulsion, Expulsion is a new band comprised of… well, Exhumed and Repulsion members, as well as Phobia, Intranaut and Gruesome. Still here? Good for you, because it gets better. “Nightmare Future” is the group’s debut effort via Relapse Records, and man, what a great start! For those used to [...]

Assent is an independent two piece progressive groove metal band from France, founded in 2015. The two members are Aurélien Fouet-Barak (Vocals, Bass, Drum Programming) and Grégoire Debord (Guitars), two longtime close friends who decided to join and create music together. The result is their debut work ”We Are The New Black”, an EP with [...]

It was another long wait since the last record (5 years) but the new Wintersun opus is finally here. And despite what most of us thought, this following record is not a Time II. The third record of the Finnish melodic masters is called “The Forest Seasons” and it’s divided in 4 tracks, each of them evoking [...]

Varg is a Germanic band, who plays melodic death metal with a pagan theme. Their name is inspired by Norse mythology and means “Wolf”.  Formed back in 2005 by the guitarist Freki and drummer Fenrier, the band has released 5 studio albums, so far. After 2016’s “Das Ende alter Lügen” by Napalm Records, it only [...]

Does anybody out there miss the old days of Moonsorrow with some old Bathory from the end of the 80’s? Well, the listener might find in this album what he is looking for. The Pagan Black Metal band Havukruunu presents this in their new album “Kelle Surut Soi”. This is a tale so gloomy, epic, [...]

“Hurricanes and Halos” is the new and third album of the Swedish band Avatarium. The band counts with Leif Edling as bass player, more known for his work with Candlemass. “Hurricanes and Halos” continues the band’s tradition of fusing melancholic melodies with heavy doom, resembling Candlemass and Black Sabbath work. Jennie-Ann Smith brilliant voice provides, [...]

Go fuck yourself, would be a insult, but in this case we are talking about Vai-te Foder, the Portuguese motor charged crust/grind band, who has just released their second album entitled “Poço” through the labels Helldprod and Murder Records. Seven years have pass since the band’s last album, but not much has changed. Same line [...]

Everyone who follows Dying Fetus since the mid-90s and who like to think they know the band were given a kick in the nuts with the release of “Reign Supreme” in 2012. The band achieved such a high-quality work that any future Dying Fetus’ record would have to be something of interstellar proportion to stand [...]

[bandcamp width=350 height=470 album=2560682292 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=e32c14 tracklist=false] The Icelandic band Sólstafir returns to release “Berdreyminn” after a band lineup change. Hallgrímur Jón Hallgrímsson became in charge of the drums. Considered as one of the most mysterious bands in the universe of metal music, they maintain in this release what can be considered it’s strangeness [...]