Albums Reviews

While death metal’s position has been fortified in 2017 due to the massive amount of exceptional releases that the genre produced so far, many seem to have ignored how strong it’s been for black metal as well. Take for instance the latest efforts of The Ruins of Beverast, Corpus Christii, Nightbringer, Ars Magna Umbrae or [...]

Leprous is not known for being a band that follows any rules. Their new record “Malina” is proof of that. A few listenings of this album makes it clear that at each passing record the band keeps challenging the way we see progressive music nowadays. On a slightly different note, Leprous’ fifth studio work “Malina” [...]

After a six years wait since the release of “Scooping the Cranial Insides”, Portuguese death/grind masters Grog are back with “Ablutionary Rituals”. A rich and well written album, proving that despite this is only their 4th album in over 25 years of activity, the band is in excellent shape. Musically speaking, this record is pretty [...]

Two things can happen when you produce your own band’s record: you either lose objectivity due to your deep involvement with the whole creation process, or this is genuinely an asset, you’re in total sync with everyone else’s goals, and the outcome is a masterpiece. Primal Attack’s “Heartless Oppressor” fits in the latter. Of course, [...]

Desultory, is a Swedish band from Stockholm responsible alongside names such as Dismember, Entombed or Unleashed for the origins of the so-called Swedish Old School Death Metal. The band remained active from 1989 until 1996, releasing in this period two exceptional albums and a not so praised one because they changed style. They broke up [...]

  Eighteen years after their formation and seven years after their last release, the Portuguese Grimlet released “Theia: Aesthetics of a Lie”. Th album comprises one intro, four original songs and a different version of a song taken from the first album “Darkness Shrouds The Hidden”. This death metal band from Figueira da Foz, without renouncing the [...]

“Monocle” is the anticipated Atrox album set for release by Dark Essence Records on September 8th, 2017. The album opens with the track “Mass”, which immediately prepares you for the introspective and adventurous journey this album will lead you into. The vocals are clean yet energetic and powerful, giving the music the power sought by [...]

The return of Myrkur, one of the most controversial acts in most recent times, that divided opinions in the underground movement, returns with her second album “Mareridt”. The listeners this time, might get surprised by what they will find, since the album is more focused on the angelical voice of Amalie Brunn, as well as [...]

The first album of Exit Eden, “Rhapsodies in Black” is a record of pop covers, in symphonic metal form. It is interpreted by four talented female singers, that defied borders, took a risk, and present to us this exotic and kind of tainting result of their work. Featuring Amanda Somerville (Avantasia, Kiske/Somerville, Trillium), Clémentine Delauney [...]

  Old school thrash metal with a lot of punk influences anyone? That’s the proposal of Municipal Waste’s new album “Slime and Punishment”, another crossover fast and straight forward record of 30 minutes length that symbolizes their return in 5 years, after their last LP release “The Fatal Feast (Waste In Space)”. The listener can [...]

Pioneers of the folk movement, fusing rock n’roll and melodic folk lines, Skyclad returns after a long period of 8 years, with another pack of tales in this new album “Forward Into the Past”. The track “A Storyteller’s Moon” it’s the perfect introduction for what’s coming up, in an album that shows a lot of [...]

The new album “Walls of Vanaheim” of the Germanic Pagan band Black Messiah, it’s a concept record, that tells the tale of The Aesir/Vanir War, and it’s a continuation of their 2009′s record “First War of The World”. The album has a lot of interludes to prepare the listener for the upcoming track, and the [...]

The debut record of the Portuguese hard rock Yellow Dog Conspiracy “Confrontation”, reveals a bunch of talented musicians, who have been hidden in the shadows far too long, that finally record their first album! The songs are very well produced and there isn’t a single instrument that overshadows the other, and the voice of Vice [...]

The Teutonic heavy metal force Accept surely doesn’t require much introductions. At this point of their career, listeners already know what they’re capable of, and what to expect from them. Their new album “The Rise of Chaos” is somehow a concept album, covering their point of view of the modern times we live in. The [...]