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…
Durbin – The Beast Awakens
Durbin – The Beast Awakens Reviewed: March 2021 Released: 2021, Frontiers Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz Let’s address the obvious, shall we? 1) James Durbin was a contestant on American Idol, almost immediately endearing himself to a national audience of repressed soccer moms. 2) Like a poor man’s Ripper…
Stormtide – A Throne of Hollow Fire
Reviewed: March, 2021 Released: 2021, Metal Hell Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Graeme Smith There is a lot of symphonic death metal around these days, and I mean a lot. In fact if you Google exactly that you get a hit with a page of ‘Top symphonic death metal artists’ which…
Zac Crye – All The Same
Reviewed: March 2021 Released: 2021, self-released Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Svetlana Likhacheva Zac Crye from Hudu Akil is back, dropping his sophomore release called “All The Same”, which is a five track EP in a stoner rock style with some psychedelic elements spicing it up. Composed, performed and recorded by Zac…
Moonspell – Hermitage
March 2021 February 26th, 2021 / Napalm Records Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Reviewer: John Haseltine By now, when the name Moonspell is said aloud, you should all know who is being spoken of. Moonspell is approaching their 30th year in the metal world. HERMITAGE is the band’s 13th full-length…
Venomous – Tribus
Reviewed: February, 2021 Released: 2021, Brutal Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Cristóbal Torres Venomous is a melodic death band from Sao Paulo, Brazil. It was born nine years ago, although it began its activities in 2016, since then it has released two full-length albums, the last being: THE BLACK EMBRACE in…
Stortregn – Impermanence
Reviewed: March 2021 Released: 2021, The Artisan Era Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Svetlana Likhacheva Newbies of The Artisan Era, Geneva-Switzerland-based act Stortregn are ready to show us the next level of their skill with a new record – Impermanence. This 8-track album is real space journey, exploring unorthodox ways and style…
Korpiklaani – Jylhä
Reviewed: March 2021 Released: 2021 , Nuclear Blast records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Svetlana Likhacheva After releasing several tracks in 2020, Finnish folk metal band Korpiklaani has dropped a full-length record called Jylhä, which takes us into a powerful and beautiful world full of marvellous and dynamic sound. The band dug…
Plague Weaver – Ascendant Blasphemy
Reviewed: March 2021 Released: 2021, Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Beandog Forged in 2018 and hailing from Ontario, Canada, Plague Weaver was initially created as a solo project for a musician who tags himself simply as, R.M. He performed all the instruments on 2019’s self-titled debut and 2020’s ‘Through the Sulphur Eyes”.…
The Noctambulant – Hellrazor EP
Reviewed: March 2021 Released: 19th March 2021, self-released Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Graeme Smith I never understood why bands select dodgy covers for albums which don’t reflect the music contained. Well known examples of this are Black Sabbath’s ‘Paranioid’ and Anthrax’s ‘Fistful of Metal’, which the bands admit themselves are ropey…
Meuchelmord – Mordmelodien
Reviewed: March, 2021 Released: 2021, Purity Through Fire Rating: 2.5/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry For a decade now, Meuchelmord has been holding high the banner of traditional German black metal. The sole work of one Cernunnos AKA Kriegstreiber, the band have quietly built a body of work that is deeply reverent…
The Crown – Royal Destroyer
Reviewed: [March 2021] Released [2021 Metal Blade Records] Rating [4/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Swedish melodic death metallers The Crown have been rolling right along since reforming a decade ago after a five-year hiatus, even if they tend to get a bit lost in the mix as acts like the similarly…