Albums Reviews

Nowadays, any extreme band has as main objective to sound the deepest and most intense, especially if we speak of Death-Metal of more obscure contours, like Ulcerate. In fact, and if things look good, it almost became a kind of cliché for the style to pick up on the power of bands like Immolation, Gorguts, [...]

Dee Snider doesn’t need any introduction since he confounds himself with what hard rock and metal is and stands for, and if we’re listening whatever we listen these days that makes us feel rebellious and different from others, many of that we have to thank him for it, and to Twisted Sister. They’re gone, the [...]

One of the most exotic sensations in the world of folk music, done with passion, heart and soul, returns with their third album “Runaljod Ragnarok”. Wardruna won their fan base most from metal listeners and fans of the TV Series “Vikings”, but has also some curious people from other backgrounds that dig their music and [...]

Being very active in the latest years, the Polish death metal force Vader released another record called “The Empire”. After 30 years of innumerous releases of albums, EP’s, and singles, they still carry with them the characteristic heaviness on guitars and the pounding rhythmic section, that we’ll hear in ferocious songs like “Angels of Steel”, [...]

The word extreme has a new dimension when we are listening to a band like Anaal Nathrakh, and they make the listener feel that like never before, in their new noisy exercise “The Whole of the Law”. Described by the band as “a sandblasting assault similar to the experience of a demented ocular surgeon operating [...]

At the 4th record “Maximalism”, the Swedish band Amaranthe presents again a risky formula that fuse metal, electronics, and some pop here and there. The listener can expect big choruses, efficient song writing, and voices balanced in between the angelic and the profane. The production is one of the biggest wins in this album, and [...]

Coming back after 3 years and with a new formation, Dark Tranquillity presents “Atoma”, a new release composed by 12 songs of melodic death metal like only them can deliver. The collective of Gothenburg shows an album that follows the line of previous records like “We Are the Void”, and “Construct”, with a production and [...]

After their first release “Ceinăscuți din pământ” 7 years ago, the band Ashaena returns with “Calea”, a pagan metal record balanced in between black metal and folk (not festive) metal. The Romanian group presents an interesting equilibrium of raw guitar production, with ethnic melodic instruments. Opening with the fast “Tapae 87”, the listener can have [...]

Nails have been on the rise, taking the world of extreme music by storm, since their first album came out in 2010. Now 6 years later, they’ve dropped their third full length album, titled “You Will Never Be One Of Us”, through Nuclear Blast Records. Being their longest album to date, with 21 minutes and [...]

As cryptic as the title “Yesterday Comes Tomorrow” may sound, its content is crystal clear – honest metalcore. This is the third release by Aanod, once again in EP format, and probably the one with most impact, so it seems the path for a debut full-length record is finally paved. Combining death growls with clean [...]

Alcest, composed by the French duo Neige (who did all the song writing) and Winterhalter (drums and percussion), can fuse melody, post rock, shoegaze, and some dirty riffs, in a unique formula that can captivate even the most serious listener who is reluctant in giving this band a chance. “Kodama” (Japanese word for both “tree [...]

The Icelandic Viking force Skalmold returns with their 4th álbum “Vögguvísur Yggdrasils”. The album speaks about the 9 worlds of Nordic mythology, and along with it, the band proves that they are one of the standards of the genre, creating great riffs with a melodic folk line, but what really distinguish them from the others, [...]

It’s been five years since the release of “You Only Live Twice” and now Pain are back a new release. Coming Home is the title of the new studio album, again with the label of Nuclear Blast. About the album, Peter Tägtgren said it follows the same line of the project Lindemann, the solo project of [...]

The long awaited debut record of Portuguese epic melodic death-metal Dark Oath is finally here! “When Fire Engulfs The Earth” is the result of several years of work and line-up changes, and it was worth all the trouble. The band has shown just how much they have matured in terms of songwriting, lyrics and composition. [...]