March 2, 2021
Best of 2020
Top 20 Metal Albums of 2020 As always, the top albums of the year are for full albums (no EP’s or demos) released in 2020. They are new studio albums for the year, not re-recordings, re-releases, cover songs, or live albums. Below the combined top 20 you will find links…
MAMMOTH WVH Release Lyric Video For “You’re To Blame” As “Distance” Hits #1
On the heels of the television performance debuts of the first single “Distance” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and NBC News TODAY, Mammoth WVH have achieved another career milestone. The band created by Wolfgang Van Halen find themselves at #1 on the MediaBase and BDS Active Rock Radio Charts. The song hit #1 on BDS last…
Drift Into Black “Among the Beast” premiere
Among the Beast is a dark doom track focused on entrapment and utter hopelessness. It’s the 2nd track from the ‘Patterns of Light’ album and the beginning of the storyline. The track is about abuse. A relationship first built on a lie and then spirals down to absolute control. The…
Everdawn – Cleopatra
Reviewed: March, 2021 Released: 2021, The Laser’s Edge Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Erich Everdawn is new name of the band previously named Midnight Eternal. They changed their name last year due to internal conflict and drama, with the idea of avoiding messy litigation and moving on to continue to release music…
Interview with Kim Stromsholm and Markus Makkonen, authors of Rotting Ways To Misery
Interview with Kim Stromsholm and Markus Markkonen, the authors of Rotting Ways To Misery by JP Tell us a bit about yourself! How did you come to decide to write the book? Kim: “I’m Kim the co-author of the book and used to be the vocalist of ‘And Oceans’…
Download Festival will no longer be taking place this year
Following the announcement of the Government’s roadmap and despite the extraordinary efforts the NHS have put in to roll out the vaccine, we can sadly now confirm that Download Festival will no longer be taking place this year, but we have exciting news for 2022. We never gave up hope…
FRONTIERS MUSIC SRL CELEBRATES 25TH ANNIVERSARY
LABEL’S ‘BIRTHDAY’ CELEBRATED ON FEBRUARY 27TH PRESIDENT & HEAD of A&R, SERAFINO PERUGINO RELEASES STATEMENT ON MILESTONE ACHIEVEMENT This past Saturday, February 27, 2021, Frontiers Music Srl celebrated the 25th anniversary of when label President & Head of A&R, Serafino Perugino officially registered the company as a business 25 years…
Quick Jabs for March 2021
This is a new monthly section where we will post an assortment of shorter reviews for albums that we have checked out or may have missed out on previously. The reviews are short and to the point, thus the tile “Quick Jabs”. Rageful – Ineptitude September 18th, 2020 – Self-Release…
Einherjer – North Star
Reviewed: March, 2021 Released: February, 26, 2021 Napalm Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: The Elitist Metalhead Einherjer, according to Nordic mythology, are the glorious dead. All those who died bravely in battle and were brought to Valhalla by the Valkyries to fight and kill each other by day, then to feast…
Empyrium – Uber den sternen
Reviewed: March, 2021 Released: February 26, 2021, Prophecy Productions Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: The Elitist Metalhead Germany’s Empyrium has had an impressive career spanning almost three decades now. Formed in 1994 they are a symphonic folk/doom band that has gotten a lot of great reviews but never seemed to get the…
Sarkrista – Sworn to Profound Heresy
Reviewed: March, 2021 Released: March 21, 2021, Purity Through Fire Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: The Elitist Metalhead Germany’s Sarkrista came across my radar with their 2017 release SUMMONERS OF THE SERPENTS WRATH. Their raw and furious approach to black metal is what stuck out with me. Fierce melodic tremolos with some…
Wheat, Brian – Son Of A Milkman:My Crazy Life With Telsa (Book review)
Reviewed: March 2021 Published: 2021, Post Hill Press Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP I’ve read a lot of rock star autobiographies and this is one of them! On a more serious note, I don’t know why but I came away feeling slightly…underwhelmed after reading SON OF A MILKMAN. Brian Wheat, bassist,…
Victoria K – Live Isolation Concert
Reviewed: February, 2021 Released: 2021, Rockshots Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Cristóbal Torres Victoria K is an Australian artist who last year debuted with her album: ESSENTIA (2020). The work was the culmination of a journey that began in 2016 with the launch of MONSTER. The two main attractions of her…
Wÿntër Ärvń – Abysses
Reviewed: March 2021 Released: 2021, Antiq Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Abysses is the sophomore album from French neo/dark folk project Wÿntër Ärvń, following up 2018’s Au Devant du Gouffre. It is comprised of namesake Wÿntër Ärvn (also of Aorlhac) and Vittorio Sabelli (Dawn of A Dark Age, Notturno).…
Signals of Bedlam – Liar’s Intuiton
Reviewed: February, 2021 Released: 2021, Independent Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Cristóbal Torres Signals Of Bedlam is a group from the United States born in 2012. They debuted in 2016 with the launch of ESCAPING VELOCITY and now at the end of February they presented their new album entitled: LIAR’S INTUITION. The…
Tolkki, Timo-Loneliness Of A Thousand Years (Book review)
Reviewed: March 2021 Published: 2010, Indie Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP 2021 is the year where I gave up. I have the lost the war. I had been holding out reviewing only real books, actual printed on real paper books, but the digital wave has all but drowned traditional publishing. In…