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…
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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,…
Firespawn – Abominate
Reviewed: July 2019 Released: 2019, Century Media Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Beandog “We’re not a Satanic band. Not in the normal way you’d define Satanism anyway. Like a devil with a tail, wings, and a giant fork. That’s not what I’m about. That’s not what we’re about. But I do…
Samael + Hangman’s Chair @ The Underworld Camden, London
SAMAEL + HANGMAN’S CHAIR @ The Underworld Camden, London Tuesday 14th May 2019 Review by Dimitris Karagkounis Photography by Sabrina Selkis It’s Tuesday in sunny London and most people are working while some other are out in the parks enjoying the warm weather. Me, on the other hand, I’m…
Ewigkeit – Disclose
Reviewed: May 2019 Released: 2019, DTM Productions Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Metal is such an open bastion of ideas and obsessions; it is of no surprise there are bands out there for the Space Age lovers and UFO watchers among us. Britain’s Ewigkeit is one of them and has…
Third Storm – The Grand Manifestation
Reviewed: November 2018 Released: 2018 – Dark Descent Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Beandog The Grand Manifestation is the Swedish band Third Storm‘s first full length album. Preceded in 2015 by an E.P. called Taritiya Me (also released on Dark Descent records), I am surprised to learn that the origins of the…
McIver, Joel- Extreme Metal (Book Review)
Author: McIver, Joel Title: Extreme Metal Date Published: 2000 Publisher: Omnibus Press Reviewed: August, 2018 Reviewer: JP Rating 3.5/5 This book review is not really that contemporary and could be filed in the list of reviews I’m writing in my noble and eternal quest to review every Metal-related book ever…
Wiegedood + Shrines + Jøtnarr @ The Black Heart
Wiegedood + Shrines + Jøtnarr @ The Black Heart, Camden 22nd May 2018 Review by Demitri Levantis Photography by Jo Blackened Altercarnated Photography It was a fun night for many Black and Death Metal lovers at Camden’s The Black Heart tonight. The band Wiegedood had come all the way from…
Netherlands DeathFest 2018 – 013 Tilburg Netherlands
Article by Arto Lehtinen and Timo Hanhirova / Pics by Arto Lehtinen Netherlands DeathFest has carved its place as one of the important extreme metal fests on European soil. The third edition of the festival offered a wide range of extremity in terms of music and bands. A major bummer…
Watain – Trident Wolf Eclipse
Reviewed: February 2018 Released: 2018, Century Media Rating: 4.0/5 Reviewer: Owen Thompson Watain have tremendous pedigree and have returned with another slice of superlative savage Swedish skullduggery. Trident Wolf Eclipse (their sixth album) continues that fine BM tradition of choosing an album title comprised of three seemingly random words (Dimmu…
Beastiality – Worshippers Of Unearthly Perversions
Reviewed: February, 2018 Released: 2017, Invictus Productions Rating: 4.0/5 Reviewer: Owen Thompson It must be hard to go for a retro vibe without seeming to be derisive or too inclined to hero worship. All too often many bands of this ilk try too hard to sound like their idols and…