Albums Reviews

You can find everything coming from Japan. Once in a while, something completely different pops out. Sometimes strange and fascinating, but also weird and a bit mind-blowing due the its strangeness. When it comes to Gyze, the listener will only find the fascinating part. The Japanese trio unleash another exercise of fast and precise melodic death [...]

Led by Guillaume Singer (guitars), and Nicolas Sanson (bass), Dead Season delivers some kind of dark progressive metal, with a lot of different influences, mixed in an extreme cocktail of entretaining musical constructions as well as defying structures. With members that came from such different backgrounds, with a range from thrash metal to brutal death [...]

Coming from France, Ormyst present their debut album “Arcane Dreams”, released by M & O Music. This record is a mixture of symphonic metal with some progressive rock. Good for fans of early Nightwish, with some power metal moments reminding Stratovarius and early Sonata Arctica. Vocally the biggest characteristic and resemblence seems to be female lyric [...]

When the listener thinks he heard it all in terms of music, song construction, and mind blowing ideas, a band like Deep Purple appears and shatters our ears with tremendous music, full of soul and passion. Masters of a sound they’ve created and develop, “InFinite” continues the tradition of great songs, which seemed to come [...]

Graveland’s “1050 Years of Pagan Cult” album consists in selected old tracks of Rob Darken’s project. They are presented here with a new and more elaborate production, which makes them lose much of their original primordial crudeness. Nonetheless, the new production arrangements created more ambiance and gave this pagan warrior’s journey a more epic touch. Rob Darken [...]

From Kiev (Ukraine), Balfor band defines themselves as “Barbaric Black Metal in honor to the history of their motherland”. They are rising to rampage and destroy everything with their third album “Black Serpent Rising”. The band includes members of Khors, Raventale or ex-Hate Forest. The band ended a 7-year-long hiatus in terms of new full length releases, [...]

The Finnish band WÖMIT ANGEL, practically unknown to the world, plays a consistent thrash metal with a good mixture of black and death metal. Their third album, “Impaling Force of Satan”, was released via Ketzer Records on March 18th. The album shows us a band that nails their songs in a very strong and powerful way with a [...]

Known for his band Behemoth, Nergal decided to explore himself as a musician and give life to a project that reflects other of his musical influences.  Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, and Johnny Cash are some examples of the influences that can be associated with this project. Recorded with John Porter, this side project [...]

Steel Panther needs no introduction, since they are worldwide known for innumerous reasons. “Lower the Bar” is the band’s fourth album, originally scheduled for release on the 24th of February 2017 saw its released delayed to March 24 in order for Stix Zadinia (drums) check out rehab. Music should also be the more important and the [...]

Back Alley Lobotomy is a very young, grindcore/mincecore trio from Portugal, who just released their first demo on tape through Murder Records, titled “Crack In Lapa” . Composed by Pedro on vocals, Esteves in the guitar and Gonçalo on drums, the band presents us 13 songs in this demo, one of which is a Descendents cover. [...]

“Reality Illusion” is the second full length album from the Finnish band Damnation Plan. They play what can be categorised as progressive melodic death metal, and their first full length “The Wakening” was release in 2013 via Coroner Records. Their newest effort, “Reality Illusion”, was released by Inverse records on March 10, 2017. The album comprises a [...]

Just like they go by two names – SPRGM and Spurgum – also their sound doesn’t fit in just one label. Having this death’n’roll vibe that made someone recommend them to fans of Entombed, there’s also a loud and wild hardcore-punk irreverence. Plus – and I honestly hope this won’t offend any Finn – Eetu Kauppinen sings [...]

Trollfest, the most insane metal trolls are back from the cave after the tremendous success that was “Kaptain Kaos”, with another record that has everything as chaotic and as funny at the same time, called “Helluva”. The listener can hear that musically it continues the same insane path that they’ve always trilled, without changing that [...]

Over the past decade, France has become one of the richest goldmines when it comes to Black Metal. The number of emerging bands allied to the high quality standards that these acts have been presenting, makes hunting for new bands an enriching musical experience. Lifestream is one of those pleasant discoveries. Their debut album entitled [...]