Album Reviews
Nile – What Should Not Be Unearthed
Nile have a new album out, which I have been listening to this last week. Firstly, I must say it’s so good when you have great production on this kind of music. All too often [Read »]
Album Reviews
Sadist – Hyaena
I am enjoying Symphony X and Between the Buried and Me these days, both serious contenders for the title of best record for 2015, digging Cradle of Filth and its bloody grand cru, banging my [Read »]
Album Reviews
The Long Escape – The Warning Signal
This is a really nice album. When I say nice, I mean exactly that. It’s nice in the sense that everything these Frenchmen do is right. In the modern, proggy and somewhat over-produced sense of the [Read »]
Album of the Month
Metal Allegiance – Metal Allegiance
Talk about a supergroup! This time it’s not just some half-super, semi-famous metal musicians who lay claim to the label ‘super’. This is more like a who’s who of people who have defined thrash metal [Read »]
Album Reviews
Amorphis – Under The Red Cloud
After more than 25 years of extolling finnish myths musically, Amorphis once again read through the Kalevala to find new topics which could be turned into music. It’s already the 12th time that Amorphis are hitting the studio, [Read »]
Album Reviews
Deer Blood – Devolution
‘Not to protect, but to extend your own freedom Let it ring, with a shotgun blast’ Excuse me? Have we heard that somewhere before? There are many ways of showing your inspiration, and borrowing phrasings [Read »]
Album Reviews
Egonaut – Deluminati
You can hardly say that Swedish retro/stoner/doom hardrockers Egonaut offer anything new to the world of metal, but their new release is nevertheless a decent effort – however not perfect. Starting out very elegantly with the flaws [Read »]
Album Reviews
Promethee – Unrest
It is arguable that innovation has become a key word when it comes to metal music these days. If your band doesn’t happen to be among the big, successful and worshipped acts of metal, you [Read »]
Album Reviews
Placenta – XV Greatest Hits
I love it when the promo letters which accompany CDs include sentences like ‘So and so need no introduction’…and you have no first clue who they are. This is the case for me with German Placenta. [Read »]
Album Reviews
Battlecross – Rise To Power
This thrash band from Michigan must have known that a third album for a big record company is important, a kind of make it or break it release. Kyle Gunther is the vocalist in the band and [Read »]