Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: Frontiers, 2015, Frontiers Rating: 2.5/5 (Just the DVD) Reviewer: JP Over the years I’ve done a number of more ambitious series of reviews instead of simple stand-alone reviews. This is perhaps my most ambitious project yet. This series of reviews was born out of three seemingly…
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Demise of The Crown – Life In The City
Reviewed: May, 2020 Released: 2020, independent Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry Demise of the Crown are a promising new metal band hailing from Montreal, Canada with strong classic heavy metal and modern power metal influences. After releasing their self-titled album in 2016 and building an avid fan-base after years of…
SVEN GALI The Canadian Hard Rockin’ Metal Band Inks A Worldwide Record Deal With RFL Records & Entertainment
One of Canada’s pioneer acts of the fusion of 80s screaming Hard Rock and 90s blazing Heavy Metal, inks a record deal with the growing label, RFL Records & Entertainment. The band comments: “We are excited about being a part of the RFL family and are looking forward to delivering…
Beneath The Massacre – Fearmonger
Reviewed: [April 2020] Released [2020 Century Media Records] Rating [4/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson After nearly eight years of relative silence, Canada’s Beneath The Massacre have returned with a fucking vengeance. Fearmonger, the band’s fourth full-length, is an absolutely ridiculous collection of blast beat-powered, jaw-dropping tech death topped by Elliot Desgagnés’…
Artach-Chronicles Of A Black Winter
Reviewed: April, 2020 Released: 2020 Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP Hailing from the desolate wastes of Newfoundland, Canada it is not hard to imagine this type of music coming from the rock . Artach is a mysterious two-piece Black Metal band who have issued their debut CHRONICLES OF A BLACK WINTER.…
READ ALL ABOUT IT-A Very Brief And Incomplete History of Canadian Heavy Metal Magazines
READ ALL ABOUT IT A Very Brief And Incomplete History of Canadian Heavy Metal Magazines (Version 1.3) by JP PREFACE As we hit the 50th anniversary of Heavy Metal this year (2020), as Managing Editor of Metal-Rules.com, one of my goals is to try to add more editorial content and…
THOR-Return Of The Thunderhawk (DVD Review)
December 2019 Released: 2019 / Deadline/Cleopatra Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP A couple of years back the mighty THOR released a documentary called I AM THOR. I enjoyed it and reviewed it on this site, and is was a bit of a hit on the indie film circuit and even got…
ARTACH – Newfoundland Black Metal Band Debuts First Music Video
Since May 2019, Artach has been steadily releasing music. Their previous releases have been shared by the blog Heavy NFLD, and a number of Black Metal social media portals. To date, the music has been made freely available on Facebook and YouTube as songs and lyric videos. For the band’s…
Necronomicon – Unus
Reviewed: October 2019 Released: 2019 Season Of Mist Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Led by frontman/guitarist Rob “The Witch” Tremblay, with an ever-revolving cast of co-conspirators, Montreal’s Necronomicon have championed a “symphonic blackened metal” mix of pomp, power, finesse and mysticism that is surprisingly rare on this side of the…
TripleMurder’s Premiere Full Stream of Debut EP “Pre-Meditated” Before Its Official Release Sept 20th
Set to drop their debut EP “Pre-Meditated” on Friday, September 20th, 2019, Ottawa’s TripleMurder is here to make listeners question what they think about pigeonholing bands into sub-genres by offering everything from chunky groovy riffs, blast beats, to breakdowns and two-steps along with everything in between. They refuse to be set into one specific genre and…
SCIMITAR Streaming New Album In Full ‘Shadows of Man’ via Metal-Rules.com
Canada’s SCIMITAR have been relatively quiet the past couple years as they toil away on their latest album. ‘Shadows of Man’ is now ready to be revealed to the world with its exclusive stream right here on Metal-Rules.com. The harmonious blend of melodic death, black and folk metal is relentlessly bombastic and SCIMITAR are very excited to…
Backstabber – Conspiracy Theorist
Reviewed: August, 2019 Released: 2019, Self-released Rating: 5/5 Reviewer: Ambra Chilenwa I must admit, I had a very bad first impression on this release due to the artwork as I am personally not a fan of space and alien imagery. However, I was not ready for the fascination about to…
Kavara – Weathered & Lost
Kavara – Weathered & Lost Reviewed: August 2019 Released: 2019 Self-released Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson The novelty of the “female-fronted” death metal band has long ago worn off. And that’s a good thing. Thanks to the likes of Angela Gossow and Lauren Hart on the more melodic end of…
BATUSHKA release second album “Hospodi”, Australian and North American pilgrimage
As civilisation continues to eat itself, heavy music’s dark spiritual quest has never seemed more vital. Emerging from the shadows of eastern Poland back in 2015, BATUSHKA have already established themselves as one of the modern era’s most powerful and evocative bands. Harnessing the fire and fury of arcane black…
HAMMERFALL announce WORLD DOMINION 2020 Europe tour dates (and 2019 North American dates)
On the topic of the upcoming tour frontman Joacim Cans elaborates: “‘Good is not good enough, it has to be great’ also applies on the upcoming European tour. Not only are we bringing one of the most promising new metal bands, Battle Beast, as special guest, we also have support…