Albums Reviews

Some of us fancy a good dose of old rock n’roll, with a somehow nasty sound influenced by Motorhead and Rose Tattoo. Music coming from a sweaty garage created amongst friends and beers. Mammoth Mammoth are one of the few bands that maintained that feeling, record after record. The new album “Mount the Mountain”, the [...]

After 6 long years, Ajattara return to activate status to release “Lupaus”. With a career filled with many great records, highly advised to to all fans of extreme music, this might be their best album so far. The band can be defined by their own characteristic sound, that can be found through out this album. [...]

Brotherhood Of The Snake is the most recent Testament album and reflects on the current reality while linking it to the Sumerian myths. It is not a conceptual album, but the current events are correlated with Anunnaki’s experiences in our creation to serve them as their slaves. The secret society called The Brotherhood Of The [...]

Scuorn is the solo project of musician Giuliano Latte, which dates back from 2008. He released a demo during that year, and, since then, he has been developing and perfecting his ideas and concept for its debut album. Scuorn is an epic/symphonic black metal project that delivers a combination of the more typical black metal [...]

Addiction is the French band Kopper8 debut album released on October 2015. Playing a Thrash / Groove Metal the band envisioned to bring some diversity to this album, ranging from faster and heavier to mid-tempo rhythms. The guitar melodies by Niko and Steff, catch your attention due to some sharp distortion and explosions. The album’s [...]

Myrkgrav is a folk / viking metal one-man project by Lars Jensen, heavily inspired by the Ringerike regional folk stories where he was raised. The high quality debut album “Trollskau, skrømt og kølabrenning” was released in 2006, and a decade later Myrkgrav returns with “Skrømt og kølabrenning”. Unfortunately this can turn out to be the last album of [...]

The long wait is over! The new album of Kharkiv band Nokturnal Mortum is finally out via Oriana Music. Істина (Verity) enthralls the listener. It exalts the motherland love in a more intense form. It joins Ukrainian and Slavic folkloric instruments to their sound, creating a rich and unique folk orchestra. The album begins with [...]

It was in February 2016 that “Stand in the Fire” album was released becoming one of Striker’s finest albums. Exactly one year  has passed and  another of their high quality work has been released, their self-titled. Shining vocals, captivating choirs, crushing riffs and powerful drums compose this fifth album by the Canadian band, where we can [...]

“Polyester Zeal” by Red Sun Rising is an album prone to breed mixed feelings inside its most demanding listeners. The average ones will enjoy it grandly, the musicality proving why modern rock and post-grunge became so popular and Mike Protich’s voice leaving quite a mark. Although some people will frown at how familiar the songs [...]

After 6 years since their debut, Sinlust, an epic black metal band from Brittany returns with their new album “Sea Black”. The thematic around this album is a diabolical plot brewing in a northern coastal seigneury, and consequent disappearing of Isulgaar Island. The album has a good production, thanks to Gwen Kerjan in Slab Sound [...]

All set to embark on yet another journey aboard Captain Chris Bowes’ insane ship. After the release of the crazy hit album “Sunset on the Golden Age” back in 2014, the Scottish pirates Alestorm are back with their high spirits roaming on this fifth album “No Grave But the Sea”. This journey begins with a [...]

Does anyone miss some good sleaze / hard rock? Typically done like if a band had a perfect triggered time machine that would takes us back to the 80’s with their sound? Well, Crazy Lixx might be the answer that the listener is looking for. And their new album “Ruff Justice” has that kind of effect. [...]

Pestifer have finaly release their debut album “Execration Diatribes”. Despite being some years old, only now in 2017, the Portuguese band has joined efforts to put out their first long play, and we might say it was worth the waiting. Playing brutal death metal, with influences of thrash and black metal, this first impression leaves a [...]

One of the best death metal bands from Europe are back, Sinister from the Netherlands with their new brutal release “Syncretism”. Adding melodic and epic atmospheres to their brutal death metal based sound, they’ve released another album that will delight the listeners of death metal, and metal with groove in general. Apart of the epic [...]