Albums Reviews

Surprisingly as it may seem, Snail have been several years on the run. And as escargot moves around very slow, never changing its spot, likewise they maintained their identity through the early90’s until now. Cut along w/ bands like Kyuss, straight from the desert sound of the post stoner rock scene, Snail made sure that [...]

 “Pillars Of Detest” is the third original long-play signed by the french black metal group Moonreich, that came out via Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions. This release is a natural evolution, sound wise, of their previous record, “Terribillis Est Locus Ist”. The theme, unlike the previous works, is not about war or war related it [...]

 “The Sheltering Sky” is Dead Soul’s second full-length album, but if this is your first encounter with the Swedish duo, don’t let the upbeat intro of “Until The Last Breath” fool you – this album is a dark rock one. In fact, even the rest of the song becomes gloomier, as the synths engage on [...]

 After the first release back in 2013, and the EP “All I Want” last year, Avatarium revealed to the world as one of the most promising and original bands in the metal panorama, fusing traditional doom metal and blues rock, with a sweet deep female voice. The anxiety about if they could keep it up [...]

 It is obviously easy for any band that has a solid career and wants to present themselves to a new audience to record a best of and there we go: a bunch of songs that could makes us listen to the band or leave it behind. Grave Digger did record a best of with most [...]

 Beneath The Storm’s third effort “Devil’s Village” is a concept album based on the 1960 horror movie “The City Of The Dead” (“Horror Hotel” if you live in the USA). Hence the recurring use of “witch” and “ritual” in the song titles (probably in the lyrics as well, if you can discern Mr. Igor Shimon’s [...]

 What more can we say about the good old metalheads that for our tremendous luck, never go away? And they’re back again like a “Battering Ram”, the new record of one of British standards for heavy metal, Saxon! The energetic heavy metal sound follows the production of the previous records, the more recent ones released [...]

 Looking to bands that keep the Swedish death metal sound as it was before back in the beginning of the 90’s, Grave is definitely one of those. They have raise the bar, and kept doing it the same old way, with the same low production, and apart of offering nothing innovating, they still have what [...]

 The most underrated rock star ever, responsible for so many big acts back in the beginning of the 80’s with Hanoi Rocks and in the end of the 80’s with his solo career has returned with “Blackout States”, the new album following the same straight forward hard rock party sound from the previous releases on [...]

Six years have passed since LUX FERRE’s second full length “Atrae Materiae Monumentum”. It’s true that they never were a hyperactive band, but now we can state firmly that “Excaecatio Lux Veritatis” arrives in the exact time, appearing before us as an imposing effort. This new effort follows the path that they’ve open in 2009 [...]

 Vreid is a band that used to combine black metal with a good production and kind of a rock n’roll ongoing riffs in the last albums. Well this time things did not went in that direction, but on a more black metal approach with the same production work intact, and putting aside that “black n’roll” [...]

 Bannstein is the second record of Eis, after they renamed the band from Geist. This long waited album is nothing more than a continuation where Wetterkreuz was left. The elements are all in here: the german dark lyrics, talking about inner thoughts and struggles, journeys trough grey paths, and the feeling that there’s no light [...]

 Bands of pagan metal start to not only come from Europe. USA have also some groups with a word to say in this genre. Windfaerer and their new proposal “Tenebrosum” is just one more example of that. Great composition, very organic and smooth, a violin perfectly matched with the songs, a Bathory touch, heart and [...]

 Five years separates the new “Dead Man’s Path” from the previous record of Malevolent Creation. Dead Man’s Path is a doom track, a prelude of something that the album will not follow, which is an exercise of old school death metal with the typical American dirty production, blinking an eye to the Swedish recording, balancing [...]