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Murg – Varg & Björn Review
The lines are so blurred now. To a large extent, gone are the days when you could look at the geographical location of a band and know exactly what they had in store for you. Simply put, Norway...
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Forgotten Tomb – Hurt Yourself And The Ones You Love Review
Forgotten Tomb aren’t new to black metal and they’re a dish best served cold. Following the disbandment of his earlier project (Sacrater), Ferdinando “Herr Morbid” Marchisio masterminded what we now...
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Apocalyptica – Shadowmaker Review
Once upon a time, way back when, Plays Metallica by Four Cellos made its prodigious appearance. Yes it was an album of covers, but it wasn’t just another metal band playing it safe at regurgitating the...
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Band of Spice – Economic Dancers Review
Talk about discombobulating! Have you ever wondered what would happen if Spiritual Beggers (specifically the Christian “Spice” Sjöstrand era) came across a Magic 8 Ball, a Time-Out Machine (T.O.M) and...
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Kontinuum – Kyrr Review
The Kontinuum… continues! Not to be confused with the tech death band Continuum reviewed here by Dr. A.N. Grier earlier in the week, Kontinuum are an Icelandic band that plays a multifarious blend of...
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Deadspace – The Promise Of Oblivion Review
Transport yourself if you will to the outer reaches of planet Aegis VII. A routine mining operation’s in progress with the situation fast souring. The year is 2508 and our story opens up with the USG...
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Satan’s Wrath – Die Evil Review
On the hunt for some mid-eighties style hybrid black thrash packed with blasphemous Venom? Well, as luck would have it the Greek titans, Satan’s Wrath, are back in black, sporting a lineup change, and...
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Ninkharsag – The Blood of Celestial Kings Review
Written By: Hell3 Reaching the fourth decade of living can be a somewhat stressing time in anyone’s life. Yourself, friends and family start to be affected by an almost insurmountable amount of...
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Artaius – Torn Banners Review
There’s aren’t too many folk metal acts I follow. As a general rule, I’ll gravitate towards the unknown blackened shit, the weird and the obscure as I scour the promo list for new review material. That...
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Hypothermia – Svartkonst Review
Written By: Noctus If someone told you that their band was basically Xasthur but with no riffs, no vocals, less distortion and no variation in tempo, would you bother to listen? Thank heavens that...
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Nekrogoblikon – Heavy Meta Review
We all have a little touch of crazy inside us. You know what I mean; trapped laughter that rumbles out with such force it makes your belly hurt. Sadly with all the hullabaloo and day-to-day grind we...
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Withering Soul – Adverse Portrait Review
I’m not much of a social media trend follower. Maybe it’s a generational thing (read as I’m old) or maybe it’s because I just really couldn’t give a shit about investing time in a meaningless fad, take...
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Vardan – Winter Woods Review
There’s such a thing as too much of a good thing. Imagine if Agalloch had released Pale Folklore, The Mantle and Ashes Against the Grain over a four-month period. These are all great albums and given...
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Valdur – Pathetic Scum Review
From Vardan to Valdur, the jump doesn’t seem huge from a naming perspective, but in terms of what the two bands offer, the chasm couldn’t be wider. Hailing from a small mountain town in the beating...
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Jason W. Walton – Mara Review
It’s exciting when you discover that a member of one of your favorite bands has a side project. It gets weird though when you realise the project’s been around and producing for going on twenty years....
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Graveworm – Ascending Hate Review
High-end fashion, espresso machines, ice cream cones, pizza and Graveworm: these are just a few of life’s simple pleasures we have courtesy of the Italians. As jumbled as that list reads, it gives you...
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Bone Gnawer – Cannibal Crematorium Review
Starting your promo blurb off with “Horror ‘n gore connoisseurs, Bone Gnawer….” will catch my eye. Going on to mention that the band is the brainchild of death metal legend Kam Lee (The Grotesquery,...
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Powerwolf – Blessed & Possessed Review
Hot on the lashing tail of the cheesiest of Sharknado films, Powerwolf return with another wolfnado of larger than life proportions. I’m told it’s supposed to be a humdinger, boasting some of the...
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Vaee Solis – Adversarial Light Review
Portugal’s Vaee Solis don’t have much experience administering slow tempo lashings steeped in thick doomy riffs, or for that matter, flogging you mercilessly with shrieks and snarls loaded with...
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Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – The Night Creeper Review
An American author, poet, philosopher and historian by the name of Henry Thoreau once said “If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” Nowhere does that...
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