Reviewed: June 2021 Released: 2021, DevFire Entertainment Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Graeme Smith Debut albums can be a bit a hit and miss. Often they are raw at the edges but offer hope and promise of what’s to come later, and then sometimes they can be the omen of doom and…
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Interview with MOONSPELL
Interview with Fernando Ribeiro of Moonspell Interview by Andrea Di Stasio With Moonspell’s 13th studio album “Hermitage” racking up praise and accolades across the globe, Metal Rules had the pleasure to interview their legendary frontman, Fernando Ribeiro. Hear his thoughts about the new album, 30 years of Moonspell, philosophy,…
Best of 2020: Kieron Hayes
01. Igorrr – Spirituality and Distortion (SAMPLE) Spirituality and Distortion is a truly strange album, and it plays into that as its strength just perfectly. It’s one of those avant-garde metal albums that throws in a ton of different sounds, either one after another or at the same time. You’ll…
Lacuna Coil – Black Anima
Reviewed: February 2020 Released: 2019, Century Media Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Lee Carter To many readers, and the many bitter artists whose work has been ripped apart by a cold-hearted, dead-inside cynic, a music critic is a bitter, twisted husk of something once-human that feeds on the maniacal pleasure of…
Female Metal Voices Tour 2019 (Leaves’ Eyes, Sirenia, Forever Still, Lost in Grey, Kassogtha) @ O2 Academy Islington, London
Female Metal Voices Tour 2019 @ O2 Academy Islington, London 26th November 2019 Review by Kira Levine Photography by Graham Hilling
We Are the Catalyst – Ephemeral
Reviewed: February 2019 Released: 2019, Ferocity Records Rating: 1/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Swedish alternative metal act We Are The Catalyst describe themselves in their press release as being ‘a light in the dark for those who need it most.’ Well, if that light is one of pure annoyance and disgust, and…
Failure – In The Future Your Body Will Be The Furthest Thing From Your Mind
Reviewed: December, 2018 Released: 2018, Failure Music Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Being inducted into Decibel magazine’s Hall of Fame is enough to make any band pretty “metal,” no matter what their sonic inclinations. And while resurrected California trio Failure can hardly be considered a metal band, they have long…
Children of Bodom + Forever Still + ONI @ O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London
Children of Bodom + Forever Still + ONI @ O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London March 12, 2017 Review by Torbjørn ‘Toby’ Jørstad
Grenouer – Singer Andrey Ind
Singer Andrey Ind – Grenouer Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall Thanks to Mausoleum Records for the promo pictures of the band. Thanks to the band for additional promo pictures of the band Grenouer is maybe a well known band for all the Metal-Rules.com readers, if not, then make sure to catch up with what…