Albums Reviews

 Korpse, hailing from the Netherlands, have been a power house in the last two years when it comes to slamming brutal death metal. Following their first self-titled album, “Unethical”, which came out on Rising Nemesis Records, offers more of the same kind of brute force grooviness you would except from this band. This album further [...]

 Three years have passed since the release of Witherscape’s debut album ”The Inheritance”, a successful release that put the band in a high pedestal. Now it’s 2016 and the band, whose members are Ragnar Widerberg (guitars, bass) and the already legend Dan Swanö (Vocals, Keyboards, Drums), released a new album called ”The Northern Sanctuary”. The [...]

 At their fifth record, Kissin’ Dynamite, the German hard rock band decided to change things a little bit and present an album about social networks and their influence on people’s life, and on themselves called “Generation Goodbye”. Considering the times we’re living in where people seem more worried in be connected 24/7, and not living and [...]

Mammoth Mammoth, the down under stoner rockers after a brilliant record called “Volume IV – Hammered Again”, presents to us one year after that last release this new EP called “Mammoth Bloody Mammoth”. The listener can get 4 songs, 2 of them brand new: the ass kicking “Taste Your Blood”, and “Drugs”, one brilliant cover [...]

 At the 11th album “Rulebreaker”, Primal Fear release their best album so far, always with the formula that is so characteristic to the heavy metal genre, blinking an eye to the Judas Priest riffing style, that always had left a smile on our faces. What the listener can find here is a journey through time, [...]

Faith & Spirit are certainly one of those bands that took the revivalism very seriously and don’t waiver when admitting it. They are a kind of a band that relive an era, with no bullshit or reinterpretations. The sound is made to be very faithful, and pleasant, portraying an era full of good memories. More [...]

 Fusing a retro hard rock sound with the 70’s boogie, Scorpion Child offer us a challenge called “Acid Roulette”, that will certainly delight the fans of the genre, and gather some more to their camp. What we can find in this new album are songs very well composed,with catchy riffing, and lovely transitions, as we’ll [...]

 The queen of metal, Doro Pesch returns with a live album, 3 DVD, and 2 Blu-Ray named “Strong and Proud”, a proper box to celebrate 30 years of career, performing live during 2013 and 2014, touring the world extensively for a year and by playing three official anniversary shows. The tour kicked off impressively in [...]

 The band and UDR Records decided to record the shows of November 20th and 21st of 2015 in Munich, Germany, trying to foreseen what could have been the swansong for Lemmy, and deliver later something for the fans to remind and cheer, what Motorhead used to do better: a right in your face performance of [...]

 The Swedish guitar “virtuoso” returns with a new album called “World on Fire”. As one of the most famous guitar players of hard rock / classic heavy metal, someone with the mastery of Yngwie Malmsteen needs no introduction, just our ears so we could listen and try to keep up with some of the notes [...]

After a successful release of the double album ”Juggernaut”, the 6-piece band comes back with an album to be the sequel of ”Periphery” and ”Periphery II: This Time It’s Personal”. Although the album has all the influences from the previous releases, it is obvious the band is more solid and more mature than ever. With [...]

 The Brazilian thrashers Nervosa are back with their second album “Agony”. Counting with a formation composed by women (Fernanda Lira on vocals / bass, PrikaAmaral guitars / back vocals, and PitchuFerraz on drums), they present to us a strong thrash record about society flaws, social revolt, and political issues without going very into deep, but [...]

 Coming from the Netherlands, the gore grinders Rectal Smegma have presented to us their new album, the fifth of their career, “Gnork”. This record is just short of 31 minutes completed with blasting grind,  some kind of sludge / punk production,  all the elements that we could find in a grindcore record such has drilling pig [...]

 “The Age of Aquarius” is the new album of Gloomy Grim, arriving 8 years after the last release of the Finnish black metal band. With a new guitarist Micko Hell, Agathon (who did vocals and keyboards) and his bandmates (Lord Heikkinen– Guitar, NukklearTormentorr– Bass, and Suntio – Drums) deliver another horror tale, balanced between dark [...]