Reviewed: August, 2020 Released: 2020, Massacre Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Erich Germany’s Assignment is a band that I have always intended to explore, but never got around to doing. That has finally changed for the band’s fifth full-length album REFLECTIONS, which will be released August 21 on Massacre Records. The…
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She Bites – Producer/musician Lars König
Producer/musician Lars König – She Bites Interviewed by Anders Sandvall Thanks to Birgitt Schwanke at GerMusica PR for setting up the interview. Thanks to Pride and Joy Music for the promo pictures of the band. Additional single promo pictures taken from the band’s Facebook page. She Bites comes from Germany…
GRAVE DIGGER-Fields Of Blood
Reviewed: July, 2020 Released: 2020, Napalm Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP Metal-Rules.com has had a history of supporting Grave Digger since the very beginning. We have reviewed just about everything the band has ever done. Oddly enough somehow we missed reviewing the last studio album THE LIVING DEAD (2018) BUT…
AXEL RUDI PELL-Sign Of The Times
Reviewed: July, 2020 Released: 2020, SPV Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP It’s been eight long years. Back in 2012 or so right around the press/promo cycle for his 15th studio album, CIRCLE OF THE OATH, Axel Rudi Pell said (paraphrased) “We will not be using double kick drums on my albums…
MEKONG DELTA-Tales Of A Future Past
Reviewed: July, 2020 Released: 2020, Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP Mekong Delta is one of those cult-type bands that ignores trends, ignores politics and just does their own thing. Their combined output is weird and sporadic, this being album #12 after a six year wait since IN A MIRROR DARKLY. I…
Khthoniik Cerviiks – Æequiizoiikum
Reviewed: [July 2020] Released [2020 Iron Bonehead Productions] Rating [4/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Take vintage Voivod and mash it up with old Behemoth, and you’ve got the rough and tumble but futuristic prog/death/black metal – and affiiniity for curiious spelliing! – of German odd-balls Khthoniik Cerviiks in something of a…
Ancient Curse – Interview with Gunnar Erxleben
Interview with Gunnar Erxleben of Ancient Curse Interview by Beandog Facebook | Ancient Curse website Many fans of German progressive power metal will remember Ancient Curse from the two albums they put out towards the end of the nineties. The Landing and Thirsty Fields both set the template for the band’s…
Blizzen – Interview with Andi Heindl (Guitars)
Hailing from Giessen in central Germany, thrash metal band Blizzen have just released their blistering second full length album – World In Chains (You can read our thoughts on it HERE). We spoke to their guitarist, Andi Heindl about the band, the new record, life before lock-down and how things…
PERZONAL WAR-Neckdevils Live-The Covideo Chronicles-Day Fourteen (April 14th, 2020)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2018, Metalville Rating: 3.5/5 (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 dissimilar…
RAGE-Strings From A Web-The Covideo Chronicles-Day 27 (April 27th, 2020)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2010 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 dissimilar and…
Hyems – Anatomie des Scheiterns
Reviewed: June 2020 Released: 2020, Black Sunset/MDD Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis “Anotamie des Schieterns” is the third full-length studio album by Germany’s black metal force, Hyems, who hail from the North Rhine area. Whilst I am not a fluent German speaker, I do know the album deals with…
MEKONG DELTA-Lurking Fear-The Covideo Chronicles-Day Nineteen (April 19th, 2020)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2007, AFM 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 dissimilar…
RECKLESS TIDE-Repent Or Seal Your Fate-The Covideo Chronicles-Day Ten (April 10, 2020)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2004 Rating: 3/5 (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 dissimilar and…
U.D.O.-Navy Metal Night-The Covideo Chronicles-Day 50 (May 20th, 2020)
Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2015, AFM Rating: 4/5 (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 dissimilar…
Dark Fortress – Spectres From The Old World
Reviewed: May 2020 Released: 2020, Century Media Rating: 5/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Spectres From The Old World is album number eight from the mighty melodic black metallers Dark Fortress. The band – formed in Landshut, Bavaria (Germany) – seem to lead a little more with their dark approach in terms…