Albums Reviews

 Retro rock bands nowadays are coming up like cherries a bit from all over the place. Altough there’s bands that have something more within them, something special or unique, and Pristine is one of those bands. The Norwegian group is back with their new album “Reboot”. It’s a great presentation if the listener don’t know [...]

In a time where ritualistic and liturgical intros are dominant among Black Metal releases it felt somehow refreshing when Belgian CULT OF ERINYES’s latest EP started playing. The furious and epic beginning of the first ”Degrees of Solitude” turns out to be the fastest section of this effort. It’s a coordinated speed since the beginning.   Besides this [...]

 At the 3rd Flight, LUTECE, a promising black metal band, presents us w/ their doomsday nightmare à la tronçonneuse. And, despite the semmingly epic proportions, this is actually a one-man show, coming out from one man’s head. Denosdrakkh, is the satan’s acolyte form the hell breaks, loose. And that has been the devil’s intent since [...]

 When we put together two of the best Nordic musicians together (Wardruna’s Einar Selvik and Enslaved’s Ivar Bjørnson) in a project like Skuggsjá, we can expect the fusion of two distinct worlds and two different ways to make music about Viking roots and Norse traditions. This project is the result of that combination for 2014’s [...]

 Steel Panther is the 80’s “sex, drugs and rock n’roll” revivalism, the risk to go acoustic against all odds, an audience of one hundred women, low budget to end up in Lexxi’s garage, having free cookies and beer, or just it was a good idea to play there… it could be any of those reasons [...]

 Almost 3 years in between, Omnium Gatherum returns with their characteristic melodic death metal new album “Grey Heavens”, a sound that Finnish bands have mastered so well during the years, and certainly this band contributed to it. Mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö, the record is what we can expect from the genre, a balance [...]

 Good dirty rock n’roll influenced by metal, is not easy to find, nor a task that every band is up for, but luckily for all of us, we have Bombus. They’re back with “Repeat Until Death” after the great “The Poet and the Parrot”. So will we repeat this record until death? We have a [...]

 The triumphant return of one of the most blaspheme thrash metal bands happen with “Wildfire”, the new record of the Australian legends Destroyer 666, almost 7 years in between the last release. We can hear on this new album to what the band is known for with a better drum production, but still with fast [...]

 Entombed was one of bands that began the Swedish death metal movement in the final of the 80’s / beginning of the 90’s, is back with “Dead Dawn”, following the characteristic sound that the band helped so much to put on the highlights of the scene, but few can make it as them. After rename [...]

From distant Russia sometimes we receive some interesting proposals. That’s a fact. Their cold heritage is always a feeling that some bands are able to transport to music. But, taking this into consideration, when listening for the first time to GREY HEAVEN FALL’s second full length we got astonished by the complexity of their somber [...]

 There’s few words to say that were not said before when it comes to comment something about a master of rock n’roll like Iggy Pop. So what makes this new solo release, the seventeenth studio album, so special? First of all, what we find is new band members that joined in the crazy trip that [...]

10 years ago, sludge was the promising new member of the metal family, with a fresh new approach, and ideas to the heavy affinities. 10 year after, Sludge seems to be loosing its grip… or evolving? Baroness were considered to many, the remaining hardliners of sludge, whereas Mastodon were moving away from the traditional sonority. [...]

 Psychedelic and progressive rock, but never roll, it’s what we can expect from Hexvessel, a band that has on vocals Kvohst (Mat McNerney) from bands like Grave Pleasures and Dødheimsgard. Also counts in with the Finns MarjaKonttinen on percussion, JukkaRämänen on drums, Simo Kuosmanen on guitar, Niini Rossi on bass, and the multi-instrumentalist Kimmo Helén [...]

“Bleak Fragments”, the long-awaited full-length debut of portuguese group Destroyers Of All is finally here, and it was well worth the wait. Three years after the release of their critically acclaimed EP “Into The Fire”, they’re back and show a great deal of realized potential. They’re not just another good promise in the Portuguese underground [...]