Reviewed: November 2021 Released: 2021, Nuclear Blast Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Norway’s Enslaved have grown a fair distance from their black metal roots, yet are still attached to them like a tree (which is admirable after three decades). Forming in 1991, they have now blossomed into a brand…
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Anomaly – Planet Storm
Reviewed: October 2021 Released: 2021, self-released Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Anomaly, all the way from Milwaukee, Wisconsin have released their debut studio album after a decade on the road. And with said album, they have certainly solidified themselves into the echelons of noteworthy 21st-century death metal with how they…
Interview with Grisly
Grisly Interview with Rogga Johansson Interview by Demitri Levantis Social Media: xtreemmusic.bandcamp.com/album/salting-the-earth With the release of their sophomore album, “Salting the Earth”, around the corner, we caught up with Sweden’s death metallers Grisly to find out what’s been going on in the band’s world and what they have planned for…
Quick Jabs for July 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”. Anaal Nathrakh – Total Fucking Necro June 11th,…
Black Hole Deity – Lair of Xenolich
Reviewed: February 2021 Released: 2021, Everlasting Spew Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Death metal has a long history of welcoming many wide and versatile themes into its echelons. Whilst themes of gore and death, destruction, murder and violence reign supreme, science fiction or the speculative genres that talk about…
Goatwhore Livestream – Jan. 9th 2021
Goatwhore @ The Internet 9th January 2021 Review by Ryan Whitwell A very well produced live stream featuring the Louisiana metal band Goatwhore took place for a full set of ear-bashing fury right into your living rooms! The energy present on stage was great. With vocalist L. Ben Falgoust II…
Interview with Lie In Ruins
Interview with Roni S. (vocals and bass) & Tuomas K. (vocals and guitar) Interview by Demitri Levantis Follow the band: www.facebook.com/lieinruins/ lieinruins.bandcamp.com/ With the release of their third studio album, “Floating in Timeless Streams” coming this month, I caught up with Finnish death metal group, Lie In Ruins to…
Anaal Nathrakh – Endarkenment
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Metal Blade Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Anaal Nathrakh are a big name in extreme metal, and Endarkenment succinctly illustrates why. The album doesn’t represent a significant shift in their approach to making heavy music because it doesn’t need to. They’ve long since mastered…
Interview with Naglfar
Interview with Andreas Nilsson (Guitars) Interview by Demitri Levantis Website – www.naglfar.net/ Facebook – www.facebook.com/naglfarofficial Instagram – www.instagram.com/naglfarofficial/ We caught up with Andreas of Sweden’s Naglfar to chat about their new album “Cerecloth” and what the band has in store for the future.
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…
Jesus Wept – Apartheid Redux
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Redefining Darkness Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Andrew Shirley Detroit’s Jesus Wept come storming through with their new release “Apartheid Redux”, a re-recording of their debut digital-only EP “Crushing Apartheid” released in 2017, along with two new tracks previously unreleased. It’s made very clear from the…
MESSIAH Interview
Interview with MESSIAH – Steve Karrer (drums) Interview by Jack Merry www.facebook.com/MESSIAHthrashingmadness/ Formed in Switzerland in 1984, MESSIAH came onto the extreme metal scene kicking and screaming and released two truly ground-breaking albums on Chainsaw Murder Records. We spoke to the band’s drummer Steve Karrer about their upcoming EP, the…
SUMMON-Fallen-The Covideo Chronicles-Day 26 (April 26th, 2020)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2005, Moribund Cult Rating: 2/5 (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…
Hyems – Interview with A.E.J. & D.M.
Hyems – Interview with A.E.J. & D.M. Interview by Demitri Levantis To celebrate the release of German black metal group Hyems’s third studio album, “Anatomie Des Scheiterns”, Metal-Rules caught up with the band to discuss the new album, the German black metal scene and what they have planned for the…
Winterfylleth – The Siege of Mercia (Live at Bloodstock 2017)
Reviewed: October 2019 Released: 2019, Candlelight Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis If there’s one thing the live album format is brilliant for, it is to remind gig and festival goers of the many fun times they had when they caught their favourite bands and artists live. In this case,…