Albums Reviews

CROBOT just sums up everything I love in rock n’ roll, nowadays simply called pure and raw hard rock. Some say it’s jut the adrenaline, good vibe kind of  music genre. Basically, that’s what this is all about. Music that convey the best of emotions to you, and basically bring you up from shambles. CROBOT, [...]

A few years back, while wondering through out the wonderful world of the underground music scene online I came across a track from a young Swiss group that blew me away. Despite being almost unknown at the time, that track became some sort of daily therapy for almost everything negative… The track in question was [...]

Ols is a one-woman project, entirely created by the author, who composes, writes lyrics, sings and plays instruments. This project could be described as a neofolk, based on multi-part vocal harmonies of ritual and hypnotic atmosphere. The main inspiration behind the creation of this project is nature in all its manifestations and human feelings, conceived [...]

 Death Valley Girls from California, are the ultimate example of how rock n’roll can fuse different genres into a consistent pack of songs, keeping the tradition of bands that come  from that California. Fusing old school rock n’roll with a psychedelic 70’s touch merged in an old punk club by the side of a dusty [...]

After the last album “A Furrow Cut Short” and the split “The one that talks to Fog / Pyre Era, Black!” released in a collaboration of Hades Almighty, Drudkh, the band led by Roman Salienko joins Grift, Erik Gärdafors’ one-man project to create a new split. “His Spring of Twenty-Four” was written by the poet Bohdan-Ihor Antonych [...]

Almost 3 years after the last record, the Hungarian pagan band Bornholm is back with Primaeval Pantheons, their forth record. The listener will find that the group matured their based black metal sound, adding some interesting melodic lines, arranging the songs in a way who is very similar to previous releases, maintaining the same lyrical content [...]

“Old Salt” is Valient Thorr’s seventh album and, at first glance (or listen), not much has changed – the same raw rock’n’roll, the same let’s-party-no-matter-what attitude… But paying just a little bit of attention, one will notice a slight step-up in their game. Sure, the opening track is based on a DC Comics super-steroid and [...]

Despite caming from the hexagon of the old continent, LEAVING PASSENGER, seem to be jettisoned straight from the marican suburbia of the turn of the millenium. In fact, they’re as american nu-metal, as you can get. Going through the EP seemed as jourey back in time, to my adolescence years, when the music was linear, [...]

When a band like Metallica release a new album, there’s always a fuzz around it, about how it’s going to be, is it going to be thrash metal or not, is it old school enough for the die-hard fans, is it going to bring and please new people, and many other equations, because everybody knows [...]

A rather freaky concept for an hard rock title, even corporate with say, Higher Than is a renewed travel to 80’s Glam Metal, with a fast-track metal feeling attached to it. The voice high treble toned, the drums quick-paced, a low profile bass enables the constant presence of the guitar duo, rhythm and lead. Purgatory [...]

The explosive opening of the percussion of this record is undoubtedly outstanding. This split gathers Ukrainian band Drudkh and the Norwegian Hades Almighty. Drudkh opens the album with two tracks, part of the poem “Black Rivers”(ballad lll) by Vladimir Svidzinsky, while Hades Almighty brings three tracks, taken from their EP “Pyre Era, Black!” released in [...]

A few months after the unfortunate passing of Aleah Stanbridge who gives voice to these gloomy melancholic tunes, Trees of Eternity reveal to the world what might be their only album in their short career, “Hour of the Nightingale”, recorded in 2014, but remained unreleased for a while. Counting also with Juha Raivio (Swallow the [...]

After 2 very less inspired albums, the Swedish heavy metal hammer returns to the path of glory with “Built To Last”. We don’t know if the changing of record company to Napalm Records did some effect on this, but the truth is that Hammerfall gather in their 10th album a pack of great heavy metal [...]

Pénitence Onirique would perhaps be one of the strongest proposals (after the release of The Great Old Ones or Cult of Erinyes) from LADLO for the coming times and, judging by the promotion, that would be the intention, but honestly and despite the certain initial hype attempt to involve the French duo, the attempt to [...]