Reviewed: April 2021 Released: 2021, Scarlet Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry Beginning his time in the music industry as the vocalist and bass player for 90s’ stoner metal band Spiritual Beggars, Swedish musician and songwriter Christian “Spice” Sjöstrand has a fondness for 1970s’ hard rock and has incorporated elements…
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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…
AVALAND – THEATER OF SORCERY
Reviewed: 04 January 2021 Release Date: 2 April 2021, Rockshots Records Rating: 3.5/5 Review by: Matt Dreadful Every hero needs a journey and every journey starts with a call to an adventure. Avaland’s journey starts with the Theater of Sorcery which is the name of their debut album that they…
Hell-Born – Natas Liah
Reviewed: January 2021 Released: 2021, Odium Records Rating: 2.5/5 Reviewer: Pete Mutant Polish death metal act Hell-Born have returned with their 6th full release, nearly 13 years after 2008’s ‘Legacy Of The Nephilim’. A bit of a hiatus for the band came to an end as we have recently been…
Genus Ordinis Dei – Glare of Deliverance
Reviewed: December 2020 Released: 2020, Eclipse Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Hailing from Crema, Lombardy (Italy), Genus Ordinis Dei are a symphonic death outfit who will unleash their third album, Glare Of Deliverance, on the 4th of December. They are signed to Eclipse Records. The ten tracks act as…
Act of Creation – The Uncertain Light
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Black Sunset Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry The Uncertain Light is the brand new fourth studio album from the German death metal heavyweights Act of Creation. Born from the ashes of the nineties German band E605, guitarist Carsten Schluch didn’t hesitate to form a new outfit with…
Transcendence – Towards Obscurities Beyond
Reviewed: October 2020 Released: 2020 – Blood Harvest Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Beandog “Patience and perseverance” – These are the things Transcendence credit for their current position when considering the span of time between their formation in 2013 and the 2020 release of this; their debut album, Towards Obscurities Beyond. …
The Infernal Sea – Negotium Crucis
Reviewed: October 2020 Released: September 18th 2020, Apocalyptic Witchcraft Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Annalisa Orlando These black metallers from the fens of East Anglia, a flat nothingness that makes up much of the surrounding area native to The Infernal Sea, bring a nuanced and groove-rifting record of British black betal. Energetically…
Undead – Existential Horror
Reviewed: September 2020 Released: 2020, Kadabra Music Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Pete Mutant Undead were an unknown band for me but, I have to say, they will be one that sticks from now on. Their first full length effort ‘Existential Horror’ is a fine example of modern death metal which comes…
Ayr – The Dark
Review Date: September, 2020 Released: 2020, Wolves of Hades Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Pete Mutant Ayr, you ever been there? Pretty bleak and miserable place on the west coast of Scotland. I live not too far away so I know this to be true. Ayr (the band) though, are not from…
MESSIAH – Fatal Grotesque Symbols – Darken Universe
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, High Roller Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry 26 years after their last studio album, extreme metallers Messiah are about to unleash the successor to their “Underground” record from 1994, entitled “Fracmont” on High Roller Records later this year. For now, however, the band are sweetening…
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…
Cardiac Arrest – The Day That Death Prevailed
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 27 July 2020, Boris Records/ Memento Mori Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Annalisa Orlando Staunch and pleasantly straightforward death metal from Chicago veterans. The record kicks off with “Thrive On Fear” with a howling siren. It’s a real headbanger, the best of roaring, aggressive death metal, with screeching…
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…
Vampire – Rex
Reviewed: July 2020 Released: 2020, Century Media Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine With Darkthrone’s Fenriz being one of the fans who helped their eponymous demo sell out in a matter of days back in 2012, Vampire have been an underground favourite in the Swedish metal scene ever since. This…