Albums Reviews

It’s been 3 years since Wolves in the Throne Room ’s last album “Celestite” and 6 since their last black metal one, “Celestial Lineage”. “The Thrice Woven” was a long awaited release and takes us back to their pre Celestite sonority. The band moves from an ambiental galactic scenario to return to the Cascadian landscapes full of [...]

The Tuoni Pathway is the 9th full-length record of Soulgrind. This is a Finnish band with a long history (active since 1992) and their music features a dark and melodic atmosphere that swings between doom, death, black metal and folk. The first track, “The call of the dancing waters” opens the album with a piano [...]

An iconic thrash metal act like Destruction, one of the big Teutonic 4, doesn’t need a great introduction. If we look at the history of this band, that alone speaks for itself. Based on that history, the band have now released a compilation of re-recorded old material. This was set in away that we recommend [...]

The Portuguese iconic band Moonspell made a bold move, and wrote an album totally in their native language, about a great earthquake that destroyed the city of Lisboa in 1755, year that gives name name to the record. It was probably the right time for this band to do something like this. A bold move [...]

To lose someone dear, it’s an awful and terrible experience that could change an individual forever. Juha Raivio unfortunately has that to bear, but he’s not alone. As a tribute to Aleah Stanbridge, he record along with Tomi Joutsen (Amorphis vocalist), and Gas Lipstick (ex-drummer of HIM), an album called “No Star Upon the Bridge”, [...]

Every time a band with the dimension of Cannibal Corpse records an album, the fans of more extreme music have a good reason to be cheerful. “Red Before Black” continues their brutality tradition, noticeable in their sound combined with zombie stories, murder lyrics and bloody apocalyptic visions. The album includes everything their long time fans could [...]

Santa Cruz is a Finnish hard rock band formed with the mutual aspiration of playing like there is no tomorrow, and “kicking people’s ass” on the process. Band has been praised by Rolling Stone magazine as “one of the top 10 bands you need to know” due to their “debaucherous, flamboyant flair”.  Inspired by bands [...]

Brazil is a country with a native history. Before the colonization, the native people of Brazil, the Indians, had their own ways to live in equilibrium with Nature itself. And as we all know from schools, divinities are the elements of Nature. Helping to recover some of the national legends in the same way that Folk/Pagan/Viking Metal [...]

If you ask most people what industrial metal is, few will answer correctly and even fewer will know which bands represent this metal subgenre. In fact, and at the top of his / her head, the regular metal fan will name Rammstein or Pain as industrial when those bands are everything but and ignore real [...]

Two years after the release of “In Times”, Enslaved are back with “E”, their 14th full length album. Their new opus “E” is based on the legends and philosophy behind the ancient rune with the same name. Although more gloomy and with darker twists than its predecessor, “E” continues in the same line of work [...]

Little can be said about Blut Aus Nord other than fascinating. The 23 year-stretch has proved to be a rather prolific career spanning 12 full-length albums and a handful of EP’s drenched in experimentation and a fuck-all trademark attitude since it’s very beginning. Unsurprisingly, “Deus Salutis Meae” treads the same path: it’s an album that’s [...]

The self-titled debut album of the Swedish band From North presents a balanced metal based on the Norse mythology. Noticeable in their music are the influences from Pagan metal bands with folk melodies,  while their main influence is Bathory. “Volund the Smith” opens the journey that this album comprises. A pleasant and well balanced track [...]

Major Parkinson upcoming, and 4th release, has been entitled “Blackbox”. And like in a blackbox you can expect to find a bit of everything. Incorporating elements from radically different styles they  produce some unconventional sonorities. This Norwegian band has proven before their tendency for the theatrical and cinematographic songs. On this release, they levelled up [...]

Mallory seems like everything but an European band. With heavy blues hard rock root, the frenchman quartet makes us take a tour into the neo-american urban myths, with a heavy trend for storytelling. In fact Mallory is nothing but their muse, that meets the french quartet in a bar, a invites them into a ride [...]