Reviewed: January 2022 Released: 2021, Hells Headbangers Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Andrea Di Stasio Bonehunter is back with their fourth album, “Dark Blood Reincarnation System”, and what a great return! The Finnish devil metal trio delivers 40 minutes of excellent chaos with unexpected shades of melody and mind-blowing guitars. This album…
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Solacide – Fall From Eternity
Reviewed: December 2021 Released: 2021, Saturnal Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Finnish black metallers Solacide, (formerly known as Dim Moonlight) have returned with their second album, Fall From Eternity. Active since 2004, this is their first release in five years. It comes after their debut The Finish Line, with…
Darkwoods My Betrothed – Jouni “Hallgrim” Mikkonen
INTERVIEW WITH JOUNI “HALLGRIM” MIKKONEN OF DARKWOODS OF MY BETROTHED Darkwoods My Betrothed has returned after a 23-year hiatus. The Finnish epic black metallers went on the long hiatus after the WITCH-HUNTS album in 1998, but carried out a few gigs in 2004 before calling it quits. The Darkwoods squad…
Azazel – Aegrum Satanas Tecum
Reviewed: November 2021 Released: 2021, Primitive Reaction Rating: 2.5/5 Reviewer: Adam Starkey When Venom set the wheels in motion with their aptly-titled ‘Black Metal’ in 1982 and the likes of Mayhem, Darkthrone and Burzum defined the genre a decade later, not even the most fervent corpse-paint-wearing basement-dweller would have predicted…
Interview with Bloody Hell
Interview with Bloody Hell – Esa Orjatsalo (guitar) 3rd May 2021 Interview by Andrea Di Stasio Facebook | Spotify Hey and thank you for your time. Please state your name and position in the band. Hi! Thank you for the interview. I’m Esa Orjatsalo and I play guitar in Bloody…
Lost Division – Cuts and Scars
Reviewed: May, 2021 Released: 2021, Inverse Records Rating: 2.5/5 Reviewer: Rebecca Bush Founded in Oulu, Finland in 2015, Lost Division released their first single ‘Wish You Were Dead’ in 2018, before swapping singers and beginning their journey to compose their debut album which was recorded back in 2020. Without knowing…
Bloody Hell – The Bloodening
Reviewed: May 2021 Released: 2021, Rockshots Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Andrea Di Stasio “Angry young men become grumpy old men” – Bloody Hell breaks their 6 year-long silence, coming back to the heavy metal scene with this unique statement that accompanies their second album “The Bloodening”. What can I say?…
Quick Jabs for February 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”. Tantivy – Eyes Of The Night January 15th,…
Korpiklaani – Jylha
February 2021 February 5th, 2021 / Nuclear Blast Records Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Reviewer: John Haseltine Without a doubt, when the name Korpiklaani comes up in a conversation or print, we all know them as the Finnish masters of folk metal. They do it well and like no others…
Finnish thrashers Prestige inks deal with Massacre Rec
The Finnish thrash metallers PRESTIGE, feat vocalist/bassist Aku Kytölä, guitarists Jan “Örkki” Yrlund(Imperia, Satyrian, ex-Ancient Rites and ex-Lacrimosa) & Ari Karppinen and drummer Matti “Matson” Johansson (ex- Korpiklaani ), will release a new digital single entitled “Exit” on the 15th of December. The single can be pre-ordered and -saved from…
Interview with SATAN’S FALL
Interview by Jack Merry www.facebook.com/SatansFall satansfall.bandcamp.com www.hrrecords.de www.facebook.com/hrrecords We were lucky enough to have a chat with Miika Kokko and Tomi Mäenpää of Finnish heavy metal band SATAN’S FALL about their brand new debut album ‘Final Day,’ the ongoing global pandemic, what TV they’ve been enjoying, and everything else in-between!
N.N.S (National Napalm Syndicate) – the old school thrash metal from Finland
INTERVIEW WITH THE FINNISH THRASH METAL N.N.S (National Napalm Syndicate) / NIKO KARPPINEN & JUKKA KYRÖ N.N.S known as National Napalm Syndicate being is the first generation band of the Finnish thrash metal scene from the ’80s. The band has undergone up and down hills and been on hiatus. In…
Agarwaen – Dottore I
Review Date: March, 2020 Released: 2020 Rating: 3.5/5 Review by: Pete Mutant Agarwaen is a project spearheaded by Pauli “Vryko” Hodju which was born from an older band which was joined by Janne Suhonen called Shathanas back in 2005. This Shathanas band had one focus which was ‘Christmas Black Metal’ …
Ensiferum – Interview with Petri Lindroos and Sami Hinkka
Ensiferum – Interview with Petri Lindroos and Sami Hinkka @ O2 Islington Acadamy, London 1st May 2018 Interview by Thomas James Henry Saunders
Ensiferum + Ex Deo + Wind Rose @ O2 Academy Islington, London
Ensiferum + Ex Deo + Wind Rose @ O2 Academy Islington, London 1st May 2018 Review by Thomas James Henry Saunders Photography by Oliver M.