Albums Reviews

Are you one of those persons that connect music with landscapes and paintings? And have you ever wondered what kind of sounds or soundtrack would fit a Caspar David Friedrich painting? As soon as I started listening to Kval’s self-titled debut full-length (Hypnotic Dirge Records – 2017), the first pictures that came into my mind [...]

Japan is a country with a very different culture from the western countries. Its exports can sometimes be weird and unique, like some of the available varieties of KitKat chocolate bars. You either love them or hate them, but sometimes they can be truly amazing. Strangely enough there are quite a few great stoner doom [...]

After three years of silence, Pathology, the brutal death metal outfit from California, brings us their ninth studio album. The self-titled “Pathology”, was released on Comatose Music Label, at the end of last year. The band had many lineup changes in its existence, but Dave Astor (the drummer), always remained as the original member and [...]

Kamera Obscura is a French band that came into the scene in 2008. They describe their type of music as “Cinematic & Heavy”, but the sound is maintained mainly within industrial metal norms. Together with The Black Planet we have an opportunity to check their third and latest record ‘The Final Cut’. To be honest [...]

Who would guess that after all these years, Judas Priest would come back with one of their best albums. With a career that needs no introduction, here they are back once more! So, “Firepower” is the answer to all the pleas from the fans of classic heavy metal everywhere, with that old school feeling. Digging [...]

It took 7 years for us to listen something new from the Dimmu Borgir camp. Celebrating the mark of 25 years of existence, their 10th album “Eonian” is a long waited record. Dimmu Borgir are a band that always took a step forward each time they’ve released an album, breaking barriers, and surprising with the [...]

It has been almost 3 years since the last original release from the Finnish metal masters Amorphis came out. Now, with their new record, the listener will soon hear that it was well worth the wait. Their new album, called “Queen of Time”, it’s so full of details, and it’s so much more than just [...]

Dozens of new albums from bands more or less established are released on a daily basis. Unfortunately we can’t review or notice all of them, but sometimes we come across an exceptional album that can’t go unnoticed. This is the case of the new EP by Melodramatic Fools entitled Dog in the Rain, that was [...]

Ubiquity is an Italian metal band whose music mixes characteristics of black metal and hardcore. Their new release, and the second album, was released under Third I Rex label in the end of 2017. “Forever​/​Denied” is a five-piece record. Ubiquity, in a short interview for Decibel Magazine, describes it as “…the last piece before the [...]

‘Toward Akina” is the second album of Seventh Genocide, an atmospheric black metal band from Italy. This album was released under wings of Third-I-Rex label back in September 2017. Album starts with buzzy feedback sound to quickly hit the fast tunes of opening song “Astral Bliss”. After the first explosive minutes from the first track, [...]

Charun is an instrumental group from Sardinia, Italy. They deliver something that can be described as music on the verge of post rock and post metal. “Mundus Ceresis” is their second full time record, this time released under the wings of Third-I-Rex. The record has a solid start with the track “Malacoda”. Sounds are built [...]

After two original albums and an EP released last year, Urze de Lume, a Portuguese Neo / Dark Folk quartet, have returned in this past March with another long play. And what an album it is! This is their second and final chapter of an ode to autumn. The melancholy, the loneliness, the departure, but [...]

It is said that the wait builds up the atmosphere and increases the intensity of an experience. Well… it seems that A Perfect Circle know a lot about this and are willing to take the concept to a whole new level. “Eat the Elephant” has been fermenting for a while and is the brilliant and [...]

On the foggy Quantock Hills (Somerset – UK) one can find an earthwork consisting of a bank with a ditch along the west side running for approximately 950 metres known as Dead Woman’s Ditch. According to local folklore, the location was named after the murder of Sarah Walford by her husband John in 1789. This [...]