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…
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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…
Sinistral King – Serpent Uncoiling
Reviewed: May 2020 Released: 2020, Vendetta Records Rating: 5/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine What do you get when the members of the bands Unlight, Triumph Of Death and Vredehammer (from Germany, Switzerland and Norway respectively) collaborate? A mix of pulverising death vocals, shattering black metal screams and otherworldly chorals that perfectly…
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…
Metalium-Metalian Attack (DVD Review)
Reviewed: February 2020 Released: 2001, Locomotive Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: JP The quest to review every DVD every produced continues! Metalium’s flame burned bright and hot for 10 years…eight studio albums and two DVD’s. I am going to review the first DVD put out in 2001, called METALIAN ATTACK-Part…
Lucifer Rising Festival 2019
Lucifer Rising Festival 2019 @Haus Auensee, Leipzig Germany 29th, December 2019 Review by Cathrine Wendt Photography by Cathrine Wendt Please follow and like us:
Dawn Of Disease – Procession of Ghosts
Reviewed: [December 2019] Released [2019 Napalm Records] Rating [3.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson If you ever wondered what Amon Amarth might sound like without the Viking shtick, Germany’s Dawn Of Disease would seem to offer a pretty good indication. Dawn’s muscular melodic death metal delivers many of the same sonic thrills…
Nevaria – Finally Free
Reviewed: October 2019 Released: 2019, Dr. Music Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Formed in Bayreuth, Germany, Nevaria are a symphonic metal band comprising of ex-Dawn of Destiny lead vocalist Tanja Schneider, keyboardist Markus Spiethaler, guitarist Kim Wölfel, bassist Kevin Deese, and drummer Alexander Dahlen. Finally Free is their eleven-track…
Fateful Finality – Executor
Reviewed: October 2019 Released: 2019, Fastball Music Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Fateful Finality, self-described as “The Evolution of Skullsplitting Thrash Metal,” are a thrash metal band from Weil der Stadt (Stuttgart, Germany). Their fourth album comes in the form of Executor, due to be released later this month. Statement…