Albums Reviews

Celebrating 30 years of one of the most iconic releases of doom metal “Epicus Doomicus Metallicus”, the masters of classic doom metal Candlemass return with an EP “Death Thy Lover”. 4 years after the last album “Psalms For the Dead”, something that the band said, at the time, it would be their last record. Some [...]

Nowadays it’s hard to find new refreshing projects that come up with new ideas, and songs as inspiring. As The Walk would put it, «Merci de pari en nous». And indeed they deserve it. With a hard rock aggressiveness, experimental, and a strong melodic voice. Still, they prefer the tongue of Shakespeare, in detriment of [...]

Mostly unknown from the black metal scene, the Finnish band Lathspell at the fifth record “Torn Cold Void”, presents a great exercise of consistent and raw black metal. Composed by four long tracks “I Am Death”, “Beneath the Flaming Earth”, “Blood Embrace This Soil”, and “Torn Cold Void”, making a 40 minutes album. We can [...]

Suicidal Angels, Thrashers from Greece, return with their sixth album “Division of Blood”. This album will delight the old school thrash metal bands, since we can hear that is very straight forward, with that raw but still incisive production that will instantly make us headbang. All guitars of Nick Melissourgos and Gus Drax, sound tremendously [...]

At the fourth album “Trolldom”, Fejd establish themselves as one of the most interesting folk bands of our time. Adding electric guitars for the first time to the Swedish folk sound that they’ve helped developing, we can listen a mature band that doesn’t sound any more like a project, but to a band that should [...]

Blizzen is a German traditional  heavy/speed metal group from Weilmünster and was formed in 2014. In 2015 they released an EP with 5 tracks which showed us a little what we can expect of this young formation. This year, on 27th May, they released their first full length album “Genesis Reversed”. After an acoustic intro the [...]

 One of the Big Teutonic 4 of German thrash metal, Destruction, mad butchers that need no introduction, returns with their 14th album “Under Attack”. Maintaining the old school sound with killer riffs adapted to a moderngroovy production, we can hear that the album sound catchy and rapid sometimes, due the pumping drum workthat was recorded [...]

Electric Citizen returns with a new album. Stoner rock bands are the latest trend on the block for the metal / rock scene, and we all know that when a new trend emerges, a lot of bands come up and some are not that impressive. Definitely, not the case of these Americans female front voiced stoners [...]

After two brilliant albums that crossed all the frontiers of metal, hardcore, punk, and rock, the Norwegian band Kvelertak returns with “Nattersferd”. Normally at the third record, the band starts to create their own entity, and the listeners recognize the sound of that band instantly when they hear it. Kvelertak didn’t had to wait for [...]

Bodie is an ambient folk solo project mainly composed by acoustic guitars, and ethereal ritualistic choruses. The newest EP “First” of this one man band created by Thomas Noel, is a blending of melodic and melancholic elements with cinematographic universes, that will guide the listener through shadows cast over a sunny afternoon. We can expect something really [...]

 With just one album and one EP under their belt, FIRTAN returns with another EP limited to 500 copies called “Innenwelt”. “Innenschatten”, and “Im Licht meiner Sonne” are the tracks that compose this 16 minutes short-play release that shows us that the band has matured, playing their pagan black metal effectively, creating a nice atmosphere [...]

Formed in 2011, Saint Astray, the German band from Nuremberg released their second album “Abyss” in April. And we’re delighted to realize that there are improvements. First of all, the band’s logo. Now we can read at first sight the name of the band. Second: the overall production became so much better. Now we can [...]

After three years from the release of “Манас” and some changes of line-up (even the vocalist) Darkestrah released their 6th full-length album: “Turan”. Although the band is currently located in Germany, their music still carries influences from their homeland, Kyrgyzstan, and this record keeps the tradition going. Darkestrah presents us six long yet magnificent songs [...]

Having made their kick start, Fallen Eight have nothing to prove, but just making their own music. And that’s a very juvenile thing to do, right? Fallen Eight is that kind of band that just wants to squeeze some noise out of the adrenaline, and extremeness. Launching now their 1st EP. As you’d expect from a [...]