Albums Reviews

One of the most ground-breaking bands of the current Black Metal movement has strike again. This time in the form of a two way split attack, joining forces with Australians ORDER OF ORIAS. After their last two albums, AOSOTH have reached a level of toxicity that takes many of their followers to inject every new [...]

 Returning to the releases with a self-titled álbum, Månegarm continue to show us pagan metal mixed with folk melodies, singing about Norse mythology and Viking gods. Nothing much different from previous albums, as long as they keep the quality of the songs. More focused on the biography of Odin, this album sounds very alike the [...]

Norway and Sweden have always been in the first rank of European Black Metal. In the last decade Finland established itself as one of the leaders of the BM movement. In the last couple of years even Iceland astonished everyone with a set of defiant bands. And what about Denmark? Well, this year SERPENTS LAIR [...]

 “Eden’s Fall” marks a new chapter in Elferya’s life, not just for being the successor of the debut “The Straight and Narrow” but also for featuring a new singer. A new drummer as well, but since Greg Turini wasn’t exactly the main composer of the band, and neither is the new guy Samuel Python, the [...]

 It has been eight years since Maieutiste release their demo, “Socratic Black Metal”, where they showed a great promise. Now, their self-titled debut is here, thanks to Les Acteures de l’Ombre Productions. The group’s sound is black metal in its essence, but as you listen to the record, you’ll be able to see that they [...]

Kampfar, one of the Norwegian standards nowadays for black metal released another profanity from the very deeps of hell. “Profan” shows us a mature band, which definitely left behind the Viking tales to focus only on pagan stories with a much more raw sound. Recorded in Bergen and in Hemsedal, Norway, what we have is [...]

  After a long wait, the Finnish doom masters return with not one, nor 2, but 3 albums, divided by genres called Songs From The North. Let’s give a look what each record contains:I – The volume I is the typical balance between the heaviness and melancholic melodies that the band used us on previous [...]

After 2011’s “Sonic Scapes & Weedy Grooves”, “Greenferno” is the second full-lenght from the Polish stoner/doom collective Belzebong. The first song “Diabolical Dopenosis” starts with an riff that will immediately make your head bang. It then progresses into more intricate riffs while keeping the monstrous wall of fuzz. Other than some samples there is no [...]

Khtoniik Cerviiks: The name is not easy to pronounce. The album title is long; and the tracks names are complex. But please keep reading this, because we’re here for the music. And the music is quite raw. The guitar work during the intro to “Schizophradio (KC Exhalement 2.0: Technocide Inertiia)” (the title of the first [...]

Scottish full-time cavernous Death Metal. That’s our quick definition of CAECUS after listening a few times to their opening demo “Affliction”. No space for tender melodies or intros. This effort starts directly with brutality into your hears. Harsh groovy guitars and cavernous gutturals commanded by an impressive blastbeats drums work that sets the pace of [...]

In my view it should be called Metal Classic instead. Briefly Dean Wallace’s Metal Family is the Metallica’s Black Album revisited, with a small addition of Load. In fact the album grasps you from the 1st second on, and you can almost feel that the vocal performance is credited to James Hetfield. Indeed, Dean has [...]

Over the past few years, France has been one of those countries that keeps generating great acts that just explode with fantastic debut albums. After Regarde Les Hommes Tomber, or Sunstare, now it is time to see what this band has to offer. Firstly, analyzing this album’s awesome artwork shows that there seems to be an [...]

 One of the bands that made some of the biggest hard rock hits back in the 80’s and survived the 90’s with some eternal radiophonic tracks, are back to their roots with a brand new album with their own name. So does the old formula still works in times like these where everything is almost [...]

 Tuomas Saukkonen laid all his previous projects to rest just to focus on Wolfheart, and after the great start, the appetite grown for the second release “Shadow World”.  Out of the shadows came a good melodic death metal exercise, with melodic parts here and there, something that Finns have mastered long ago, and Saukkonen had [...]