Interview with Mark Weiss, author/creator of The Decade That Rocked by JP From conception to when this book rolled off the presses, how long did this project take? I first signed the contract with Insight Editions seven years ago. It was to be a book of my photographs of bands…
Alien – Singer Jim Jidhed
Singer Jim Jidhed – Alien Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall Thanks to Birgitt Schwanke at GerMusica PR for setting up the interview. Thanks to AOR Heaven for the promo pictures of the band. Promo pictures taken by: Anders Fästader The legendary Swedish AOR/Melodic rock act Alien is back with a fresh…
SABBATONERO, L’Uomo Di Ferro, An ALL STAR Tribute To Black Sabbath
From James Murphy’s (Death, Obituary, Disincarnate, Testament, James Murphy) Facebook Page: Christmas Eve 2020 brings to an end one extraordinary year for us all…Therefore to do something positive and showing the amazing talent and strength of our metal community across the globe…I’m presenting you…from Brazil to Japan… USA to Europe…our…
RED CAIN – Interview with Evgeniy Zayarny
RED CAIN’S voice, Evgeniy Zayarny, reveals details about KINDRED: ACT II Bandcamp – Facebook – Instagram Red Cain is a band from Alberta, Canada born in 2016 that has a huge musical spectrum that makes it practically un-classifiable, however, it is fair to say that their music offers top-notch progressive…
Royal Orphan – Royal Orphan (6 song debut E. P.)
Reviewed: December, 2020 Released: 2018, Independent Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Cristóbal Torres Royal Orphan is a duo formed by Joey Migz on drums and Brendan Kelly as the multi-instrumentalist man, as he is in charge of bass, guitar and vocals. Originally from Long Island, New York, this project is one more…
Abyssal Frost – Antarsia
Review Date: January 2021 Released: 2020, Independent Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: RC2000 From Atlanta, Georgia (with roots in the North Carolina death metal scene) comes the independently-released EP from Abyssal Frost entitled ANTARSIA. Their Bandcamp page has the description “A voyage of doom and terror set sail into the Abyss…” which…
KONQUEST – THE NIGHT GOES ON
Reviewed: 27.12.2020 Released: January 8th, 2021 Iron Oxide Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Dennis It is not my everyday business to review a record that is, literally, the first of a brand-new record label. Said label is Bart Gabriel’s (Gabriel Management, Skol Records, producer, manager etc) Iron Oxide Records. Konquest is…
ALITOR – II
Reviewed: Jan 2021 Released: 2020, Ragnaröck Records Rating: 5/5 Reviewer: Dennis I reviewed an awful lot of music this year only to almost miss one of the best Thrash Metal outputs of the year. The record of the Serbian Thrash band Alitor is simply named II. Alitor was formed in…
Sylent Storm – The Fire Never Dies
Reviewed: January, 2021 Released: November 27, 2020 Stormspell Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: The Elitist Metalhead The New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal, affectionately known henceforward as the NWOTHM, has really taken off. I’m not really getting the criticism of a lot of the bands that “they lack originality.” I actually…
KILL CITY – LAST MAN STANDING
Reviewed: 29.12.2020 Released: 2020, self-released Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Dennis Kill City is another great example for hard rocking classic style Heavy Metal from South America. Kill City hail from Equador, a Country with 269 339 residents as of 2020. Equador is the country of Cuisine like: Arroz con menestra y…
Eoront – Gods Have No Home
Reviewed: January, 1, 2021 Released: November 6, 2020 Drevo Music Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: The Elitist Metalhead I first heard Siberia’s Eoront back in the summer of 2017 when I ran across their sophomore release, ANOTHER REALM. They play a melodic, atmospheric black metal with some rather tasteful folk elements thrown in.…
Hell Riders – First Race
Reviewed: Jan. 2020 Released: 2019, Volcano Records Rating: 3 of 5 Reviewer: Cristóbal Torres Hell Riders is a novel group born in 2017. Their history is curious because, with just a few demos, they achieved a record contract for the release of their debut album: First Race, which was released…
Begräbnis – Izanaena
Begräbnis – Izanaena Reviewed: January 2021 Released: 2020, Weird Truth Productions Rating: 2/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz I’m not really sure what’s happening on IZANAENA, but I think I like it? Japan has long been a creative nexus for all things musically extreme. Be it the mighty metal shred of Loudness,…
Voivod – Lost Machine-Live
Voivod – Lost Machine-Live Reviewed: January 2021 Released: 2020, Century Media Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz THE WAKE was the album that reignited my love affair with Voivod. My first guitar instructor (Joe Antares, love you dude) hated me because I begged him to teach me songs from DIMENSION…
Altered Dead – Returned To Life
Reviewed: January 2021 Released: 2021, Memento Mori Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Five years after their self-titled debut, Canadian old-school death metal duo Altered Dead have Returned To Life with their sophomore full-length, which will see its initial physical release through label Memento Mori. A doom-esque introduction announces “Mental Suicide”…