Albums Reviews

If you are thinking this is another pagan metal EP because of its artwork and title? Once again, it proves that you should never judge a book by its cover. KHASM is a French band and in its essence categorised as a death metal band, that tends to fuse hardcore elements in their sonority. They released their [...]

 Symphonic metal is one of those genres that has loyal fans, maybe because is one of those genres that has bands of talented musicians who create great songs with melodic hooks, allied with a female crystal clear voice most of the times. Delain is one of the best examples of that,and at their 5th album [...]

 After the first good impression left with the “Days of Retribution” EP, which was a cover-mount CD offered in Germany’s Legacy magazine, Sodom released their fifteenth album called “Decision Day”. This new call to arms has everything a Sodom fan can hope for: the dirty bass guitar along with a great drumming production, and effective thrash riffs leaded [...]

French act Scolopendra, have released their debut album “Cycles”, five years after their first work, the EP “Apostasy Beyond Sanity”. What the listener will find in Scolopendra’s record, is an exercise of audacious thrash metal, with a ferocious death metal sound influenced by Coroner and Carcass, within some progressive arrangements here and there, and a [...]

Released as an independent record, the second album of Drakwald “Riven Earth”, is a pagan metal record influenced by the Nordic folk and culture. Recorded in Dome Studio, the listener will find here the typical folk flute / bagpipes melodies and some epic arrangements, within a heavy almost death metal sound, that sometimes dwells in [...]

 Death metal bands with a lot of technical parts and a brutal groove are emerging from the gutter, and gathering some followers that seem to dig these kind of bands with passion. One of the bands that are responsible for that, is Katalepsy. At their second album “Gravenous Hour”, these Russians continue to thrill that [...]

 Some German black metal bands had always a punchy sound, within a deep strength that breaks through the darkness and penetrates the soul of the listener. One of those bands that helped developing that kind of sound was Imperium Dekadenz, and 3 years after the previous release they return with their 5th album “Dis Manibvs”. [...]

 In this new album “The Last Stand”, Sabaton presents to the listener a new lesson in war stories about famous armies last stands, like Spartans, Scots, and Samurai forexample. The musical composition and songwriting strengths make it difficult to ignore the images of this armies holding their lines, fighting for their breath, and persevering (sometimes [...]

 Many of us have never imagined that Finsterforst, after the great impact of their last album “Mach dich frei”, would release a record that has much of flamboyant as of surprising, and this sometimes leads into division and controversy in between fans. Well, this might not be the case for Finsterforst with their new release [...]

 Inquisition’s seventh album“Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith”, allows the listener to hear  the same line of work that the band used the fans in previous releases, typical Inquisition sound production, and grim cold darkness that only old school black metal have, combined with a bit of doom and thrash here and [...]

 Amalie Brunn’s project Myrkur took another turn in the wheel of darkness around the old north, and present this time the 3rd release in 3 years. It’s a live record in the Emanuel Vigeland Mausoleum, Oslo, with the Norwegian Girls Choir. What the listener can find here are beautiful and dramatic acoustic versions of previous [...]

Enemy of the Enemy is a groovy French Hardcore / crossover metal band with the characteristic that the vocalist sings in a mix of nu-metal, groove metal and hardcore screaming. Sometimes there are crossovers that work well, where musicians create interesting combinations. But sometimes there are others that simply don’t fit well together. Their first long play “Hellequin”, originally [...]

 At the 5th album “Armageddon”, Equilibrium presents a composition more mid-tempo based, creating a structure that gives these songs more space for the band to input fresh ideas, and keep the listener interested trough out the record. It’s notorious that this new release departs from the previous albums “Sagas” and “Erdentempel”, showing a growth and [...]

 The long awaited second album of one of the most exotic sensations in the blues / retro rock catalogue these days, Blues Pills “Lady in Gold” is finally out, after their successful self-titled debut. This new record it’s the first with a new drummer André Kvarnström,and the concept behind it in the vocalist and co-songwriter [...]