Albums Reviews

Lord Shades is a French melodic black / death metal band born in 2001 but only in 2008 they released their first album. In December of 2017 they released their third album “The Uprising of Namwell”, the last of a trilogy started in 2008. Not having heard the two previous albums, I must say that this is [...]

Romanian quintet Rancorum pledge their axes to the gods of old-school death metal. And what a helluva debut record they have crafted! “The Vermin Shrine” is plain, intoxicating death metal done the classic way. The guitars sound raw and punishingly loud, as soon as the first chugging riff fades in the mix. The production is [...]

Romanian Ordinul Negru has been active on the metal scene since 2004. The band started as a one man project and in order to allow Ordinul Negru to perform as a live act, it evolved into a full band in 2015. Their latest full length record entitled ‘Faustian Nights’ was released in collaboration with Loud [...]

With the huge amount of metal albums that are released daily it is natural that some of very good metal albums go unnoticed. This is the case of “Diabolical Empathy” by Drakkar. This power/speed metal Belgian band was born in 1983 and they released their first album in 1988 after which they temporarily dismembered the band. [...]

There are bands that throughout their history developed their own sound, easily recognizable for those familiar with their discography, in this case a unique style of riffing and rhythm guitars. This is the case of Rotting Christ and others like Behemoth, Amorphis and Amon Amarth. “The Heretics”, the 13th album released by Rotting Christ, summarizes [...]

Necandi Homines is an Italian outfit hailing from Iesi, a town skimming the coast of the Adriatic Sea. They play a mix of slow-paced doom metal, old-school black metal and experimental/avant-garde music. Black Hole is the third release from the band in their eleven years of history, but comes just a bit over a year after their [...]

Seventh Genocide is an atmospheric black metal band from Italy. Their latest full length, “Toward Akina”, had a quite good acceptance from the audience and they recently returned with the EP called “SVNTH” released via Third-I-Rex label. This 4 piece record starts with ‘Through Woods and Fire’ a song that can be described as balancing [...]

This 2018 reissue of “Grand Declaration Of War”, Mayhem’s most effective as well as controversial album to date, is a good occasion to raw back into the river of memories towards the year 2000 – when it was originally released. This has been the album that provoked cries of alienation and disrespect. To be honest [...]

This rock n’ roll trio from Marne, France is sure to get a few heads banging! Dirty Raven’s dirty mix of grunge, punk, alternative rock and stoner. It is without a doubt an interesting and explosive concoction which is sure to fill the hunger of heavy and groovy music. Their latest EP, titled “Rust For [...]

VOR is a Spanish sludge duo which released their second full length album, “Depravador” this year via Third I Rex label. This album consists of 7 main tracks plus 2 bonuses. It all starts with the album ‘s title track – ‘Depravador’. A 9 minutes song of uncompromised rusty noise. The track builds up on [...]

Revelations of the Red Sword is the sophomore LP effort by the Icelandic blasphemers Svartidauði. The album is to be released on December 3rd on Ván Records, coming six years after the very celebrated Flesh Cathedral. Note that this Satanic Vikings have not been idling, with three EPs released in between both albums, each of [...]

Mils is a French band from Montpellier, that presented a mixture of rock, new wave and industrial with small hints of few other genres. Their latest record ‘We Fight I We Love’ was released on the 17th of May, 2017 in cooperation with the Doowet Agency. The record starts with ‘Come Home’, an easy to listen, [...]

 Sunny Philadelphia often births certain musical acts which are the antithesis of their habitat, as is the case with Horrendous. This death metal group has captured the attention of the international metal community by signing with one of the labels industry’s titans, Season Of Mist, who released their fourth full-length album, “Idol”. But are Horrendous [...]

First of all, let me just say that “Beneath A Godless Sky” is about as kickass as band names usually get. Let’s see if the sound matches the tag! This Parisian progressive metal outfit released a debut self-titled EP that, in their own words, mixes “Progressive, Heavy and Melodic” elements in order to illustrate their [...]