It’s critical mass over at festival HQ this week, as the site build begins and at last, we can say one week til BLOODSTOCK! Weekend tickets are now SOLD OUT, but if you missed out and hope to still snag one, or indeed, wish to re-sell yours as you can no…
A Metal-Rules.com Premiere: Hellsword “Satan, Death And Fear”
Metal-Rules.com is pleased to present you with the exclusive premiere of the song “Satan, Death And Fear” by Hellsword. The band is recommended for fans of Venom, Hellhammer, Destroyer 666. Here’s what the band has to say about the song: “Unite in the final revolt! No bullshit, only plodding d-beats,…
Legendary heavy metal bassist Rudy Sarzo returns to Quiet Riot
Quiet Riot is set to welcome Rudy Sarzo back into the band after an 18-year absence. Rudy was one of the original founding members of the legendary Metal Health lineup. He played bass on the “Metal Health” album, which sold over ten million copies and spawned the hits “Cum On…
CRADLE OF FILTH – start pre-order for new album “Existence Is Futile” + unveil first single and hellish music video for ‘Crawling King Chaos’
Belched from Hell’s depths into the rustic charms of the Witch County, Suffolk, thirty long and disturbing years ago, CRADLE OF FILTH are undisputed giants of the Heavy Metal realm. Imperious purveyors of a perennially unique strain of dark, dastardly, and wilfully extreme metal, with deep roots in the worlds of…
BOTTOMLESS – Interview with Giorgio Trombino
BOTTOMLESS 30th July 2021 Interview by Kat Knite Italian doom metal trio BOTTOMLESS are back with a stunning new self-titled record, out now via Spikerot Records. We got a chance to catch up with lead singer & guitarist Giorgio Trombino and learn all about the process and inspiration behind the new release, as well…
Hexorcist – Evil Reaping Death
Reviewed: August, 2021 Released: July 26, 2021, Memento Mori Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: The Elitist Metalhead Miami, Forida’s Hexorcist makes no bones about it, they are old school Florida death metal. Their debut full length, EVIL REAPING DEATH, was just released 30 years after the explosion of bands from that very…
Powerwolf – Call of the Wild
Reviewed: August, 2021 Released: July 16, 2021, Napalm Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: The Elitist Metalhead Powerwolf are one of my favorite bands and have been since I heard 2007’s LUPUS DEI. That album is mounds of cheese wrapped in some of the most fun and entertaining power metal to come…
Entierro – El Camazotz
Reviewed: August, 2021 Released: June 18, 2021 Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: The Elitist Metalhead I learned of New Haven, Connecticut’s Entierro when I discovered that founding Fates Warning guitarist Victor Arduini was in the band. His fretwork was top notch on the first two Fates albums, how can I go wrong?…
Anakim – The Elysian Void
Reviewed: [August 2021] Released [2021 Self Released] Rating [3.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson British death metallers Anakim step up their game considerably with the second album, and first in four years. With volatile new singer Matt Small in tow, and a more evolved, technically adept and professional approach, the band build…
McIver, Joel-The Saga Of Skalmold (Book Review)
Reviewed: August 2021 Released: 2021, Black Harbour Entertainment Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: JP It is no secret that the Heavy Metal business has been evolving down into a massive global cottage industry. Hundreds of bands run their own labels, recording studios, record and produce their own albums, create merchandise and then tour. The…
Quick Jabs for August 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”. Helgrind – Return To Motherland September 1st, 2019…
Darkthrone – Eternal Hails……
Darkthrone – Eternal Hails…… Reviewed: August 2021 Released: 2021, Peaceville Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz A new Darkthrone album is always an event, because you’re never really sure “which” Darkthrone you’re getting until you hear it. Across 3 decades, the dynamic duo of Fenriz and Nocturno Culto have charted…
Internal Bleeding – Heritage of Sickness II
Internal Bleeding – Heritage of Sickness II Reviewed: August 2021 Released: 2021, Comatose Music Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz If a demo compilation falls in the woods and no one was there to hear it, was it ever really released? If you’re Internal Bleeding, you find a better label distributor…
Rat King – Omen
Reviewed: August 2021 Released: 2021, self-released Rating: 2.5/5.0 Reviewer: Kat Knite Hailing from Evansville, Indiana come Rat King, a doom metal outfit formed in 2016 by Andrei Stirbu (lead guitar), Kyle Wilcher (drums/lead vocals), Jason Wilcher (rhythm guitar/backing vocals), and Nick Graman (bass). While the young band members are ambitious and draw…
El Destazador – Utopist Visions of Home
Reviewed: February, 2021 Released: 2021, Independent. Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Cristóbal Torres El Destazador is a thrash metal band from Guatemala born in the distant year of 2010. Their debut album THE HORN OF DOOM was released in 2014 and five years later they released: BRUTAL BLASPHEMY. Just in June the…