Albums Reviews

 “Necrobreed” is the newest and eighth record of the French band Benighted, known for their balanced mix of grindcore and death metal. The listener can expect the same production, brutal and effective as the one presented on the previous album. With a song construction that has evolved into a consistent smashing trough sound, that can [...]

KRAKOW ‘s upcoming album “Alive” will be released on March 24th by Dark Essence records. Featuring tracks recorded from their live show during last year at USF Verftet in Bergen 2016. Maybe unknown to many, KRAKOW (from Bergen, Norway) managed to surprise and awe with their special approach to experimental post-metal genre. Their three albums [...]

After an hiatus of album releases for 5 years after the release of “Few Against Many” finally Firewind, the band led by Gus G., releases a new album “Immortals”. Like other bands, such as Ex-Deo, who have been writing about the history of their roots, Firewind found inspiration in two epic battles, already portrayed in [...]

The Finnish band Wolfheart is back with their third opus entitled “Tyhjyys”, the Finnish word for “emptiness”. This could lead us to believe this is just another depressive band or album, but that is not true, since this album is simply a masterpiece of pure “Winter metal”. “Tyhjyys” contains eight tracks, brilliantly produced and recorded [...]

 Another Overkill record coming out is a great reason for thrash metal fans, and metal fans in general, to cheer up. The fuel of inspiration witnessed in the last years continues to flow in the womb of the band, as the listener will hear in “The Grinding Wheel”. Produced by the band itself, the result [...]

 “The Immortal Wars” marks the return of the favorite metal’s roman son, Ex Deo. This side project of Maurizio Iacono (Kataclysm) shook the foundations of the fans that like a mixture of heavy metal, epic melodies and explore history in lyrics. This album keeps the elements that became tradition in the previous releases and will [...]

 At the fourth album, “Bringer of Pain”, Battle Beast establish themselves as a force in heavy metal. They bring to the genre some new elements that they have been testing and maturing in their previous records. In this release they present some really nice, catchy, and efficient tracks. A clear evolution in Noora Louhimo voice is [...]

 “Nuit Noire”, is the second an incredible album from the French band LOST IN KIEV. This is a very rich album that requires from the listener a specific mood and opened mind to fully understand it’s message. You can easily get lost inside this passage! The music by Lost in Kiev creates an hypnotic scenario where [...]

Powerwolf is a German power metal band  with dark vocals, a sounding powerful organ and dark choirs, complete with narratives about tales and legends from Romanian folklore. Blessed and Possessed is the sixth album of the band, which was released in 2015 by Napalm Records. This is undoubtedly a very successful album, with fantastic songs, [...]

Black Hole Generator was formed in 2006 as a solo project from the charismatic Vulture Industries‘ lead man and long-time Taake and Helheim producer Bjørnar E. Nilsen. Their debut album “Black Karma” (Ars Magna Recordings) saw the light of day back in 2006, with the participation on guitars of Dreggen (Aeternus, Taake, Deathcon, Grimfist and Slavia). After ten years hiatus, “A Requiem for Terra” album [...]

The Norwegian black metal quartet Helheim is back with “landawarijaR”. It’s still early 2017 and the listeners already have in hands a very good album of pagan black metal that could be one of the genre best releases of the year. It was a conscious move to pick up from where the last record ended, [...]

Fallujah is an american progressive technical death metal band from San Francisco, California who celebrates ten years of existence this year. The 5-piece group released their 3rd full-length entitled “Dreamless” in April 2016 via Nuclear Blast. “Dreamless” is composed by twelve themes and counts with four guest musicians: female singers Katie Thompson (Chiasma) and Tori Letzler‎ [...]

Thirty six glorious years have past since the formation of the band pioneering in German metal acts in the early 80’s, live Grave Digger. The initial formation of the band changed along, and only Chris Boltendahl stayed from the original formation, in this 18th album he took the keyboarder Marcus Kniep for the first participation [...]

Gods of Violence is the name of the new Kreator album, which sounds like reflection about their visions of the era that we’re living in, and other personal aspects. Following the same characteristic sound that fans of the band can relate too, one of the German institutions of thrash metal present another consistent, brutal, and [...]