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…
Album Reviews
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…