Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Purity Through Fire Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis It would be quite a cliché to say a veteran of a certain scene will produce some of the best new music, but the reason that’s a cliché is that it normally turns out to be true.…
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Assignment – Reflections
Reviewed: August, 2020 Released: 2020, Massacre Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Erich Germany’s Assignment is a band that I have always intended to explore, but never got around to doing. That has finally changed for the band’s fifth full-length album REFLECTIONS, which will be released August 21 on Massacre Records. The…
Temple Nightside – Pillars Of Damnation
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Iron Bonehead Productions Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Haling from Australia and founded just a decade ago, Temple Nightside will be releasing their fourth full-length Pillars Of Damnation on August 7th, via Iron Bonehead Productions. Their label states: “By now, Temple Nightside require little to…
Elmsfire – Wings of Reckoning
Reviewed: August, 2020 Released: 2020, Recordjet Rating: 2.5/5 Reviewer: Pete Mutant Elmsfire have been about since 1999 and have had two full lengths and a few demos up until this point. The band from Düsseldorf have been in a bit of a transition again as they shake up the lineup…
Shining Black – Shining Black
Reviewed: August, 2020 Released: 2020, Frontiers Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Erich Frontiers Records can always be counted on to help put together interesting projects from different artists on their label. The latest is a collaboration between singer Mark Boals (Yngwie Malmsteen, Royal Hunt) and guitarist Olaf Thorsen (Labyrinth, Vision Divine).…
Sanity Control – War on Life
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Selfmadegod Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry Sanity Control is a crossover thrash metal band hailing from Warsaw, Poland who pay homage to the classic metal sounds while combining it with a distorted hardcore punk assault and shoving the whole thing through a blender repeatedly. I…
Sepulchral Curse – Only Ashes Remain
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Transcending Obscurity Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Bands who fuse black and death metal are among this critic’s favourite genres. Blackened death metal is all well and good but it is nice to come across a band with a very catchy death metal sound but…
From The Depth – Moments
Reviewed: August, 2020 Released: 2020, Rockshot Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Pete Mutant Italian power metallers From The Depth have brought the band back after a bit of a gap since their last recorded effort, 2014’s EP ‘Perserverance’. There’s a few new faces to the lineup which now is purported to…
Bull Elephant – Created From Death
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Eat Lead and Die Music Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Rossy Maguire UK anonymous collective BULL ELEPHANT will release its second album, Created From Death, in August on Eat Lead and Die Music. The album, part two in the BULL ELEPHANT trilogy mythos, picks up where the debut ended. The eponymous creature,…
Jupiterian – Protosapien
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Transcending Obscurity Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Sometimes you really need to be in the right mood for certain music. Jupiterian’s Protosapien is one such example, and the mood it wants you to be in, the atmosphere it revels in and drips with, is…
Veonity – Sorrows
Reviewed: August, 2020 Released: 2020, Scarlet Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Erich Formed in 2013, Sweden’s Veonity will release their fourth studio album SORROWS on August 21 via Scarlett Records. Veonity is yet another Swedish power metal band from a country who has comfortably led innovation in melodic death metal in…
PERSEKUTOR Interview
Interview with PERSEKUTOR – Vlad the Inhaler (vocals) Interview by Jack Merry totalpersekution.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/persekutor/ svartrecords.com/product/persekutor-permanent-winter/ We sat down with Ice Metal band PERSEKUTOR to discuss the upcoming debut album and more! Please follow and like us:
Convocation – Interview with LL and MN
Interview with LL (vocals) and MN (instruments) Interview by Kira Levine www.facebook.com/ConvocationDoom/ Shortly before the release of their sophomore album Ashes Coalesce, we caught up with Finnish duo Convocation to discuss their latest release and more. Please follow and like us:
Sorcerer – Interview with Kristian Niemann
Interview with Kristian Niemann Interview by Demitri Levantis We caught up with Sorcerer’s guitar player Kristian Niemann to discuss the new album and how he finds life as an established musician. www.facebook.com/sorcererdoom www.instagram.com/kristianxniemann/?hl=en Please follow and like us:
Black Altar & Kirkebrann – Deus Inversus
Reviewed: July 2020 Released: 2020, Odium Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Polish black metal institution Black Altar has teamed up with the Norwegian outfit Kirkebrann (“church burning”) to create a brand new split record stating how the metal sounds of both nations have not waned in the current state of…