Reviewed: [August 2020] Released [2020 Self-released] Rating [3.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Supernatural Tales is the second full-length from Arizona-based one-man band Vampiric. Self-released less than a year after 2019’s The Magic Of The Night, it shows some notable and impressive growth and lessons learned by master-mind and sole studio member…
Gothic Metal
Ba’alzamon – A Desolate Place
Ba’alzamon – A Desolate Place Reviewed: April 2020 Released: 2020, Bandcamp Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz A DESOLATE PLACE sounds like the kind of record that had it been released in the mid to late-90’s when gothic metal was going through that weird transition phase from its traditional black/death roots…
Old Corpse Road – Interview with The Bearer
Old Corpse Road – Interview with The Bearer Interview by Demitri Levantis The British black metal institution have returned with their third album: “On Ghastly Shores Lay the Wreckage of our Lore”, and to find out more on this new release, Metal-Rules caught up with the band to find out…
Lord Vigo – Danse De Noir
April 2020 April 10th, 2020 / High Roller Records Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Reviewer: John Haseltine When it comes to my expertise in the doom-metal genre, I will be the first to admit; the ‘expert’ part should be stricken from the record. I suppose that could translate into others as…
Dominia – The Withering Of The Rose
March 2020 January 20th, 2020 / Morning Star Heathen Music Group Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Reviewer: John Haseltine Just as beautiful and mesmerizing as the music contained on THE WITHERING OF THE ROSE are the words which describe Dominia and their latest album. These words were included with the press…
Lacuna Coil – Black Anima
Reviewed: February 2020 Released: 2019, Century Media Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Lee Carter To many readers, and the many bitter artists whose work has been ripped apart by a cold-hearted, dead-inside cynic, a music critic is a bitter, twisted husk of something once-human that feeds on the maniacal pleasure of…
Female Metal Voices Tour 2019 (Leaves’ Eyes, Sirenia, Forever Still, Lost in Grey, Kassogtha) @ O2 Academy Islington, London
Female Metal Voices Tour 2019 @ O2 Academy Islington, London 26th November 2019 Review by Kira Levine Photography by Graham Hilling Please follow and like us:
Lacuna Coil + Eluveitie + Infected Rain @ O2 Forum Kentish Town
Lacuna Coil + Eluveitie + Infected Rain @ O2 Forum Kentish Town 16th November 2019 Review & Photography by Graham Hilling Please follow and like us:
Moonspell + Rotting Christ + Silver Dust @ Islington Assembly Hall
Moonspell + Rotting Christ + Silver Dust @ Islington Assembly Hall 29 October 2019 Review by Demitri Levantis Photos by Manu Volpina Please follow and like us:
Lacrimas Profundere – Bleeding the Stars
Reviewed: July 2019 Released: 2019, Napalm Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis It is a double-edged sword when a band say they have, ‘evolved’. Either they have changed direction from their early work for the best, or they have found a new route which makes you wonder, ‘what the hell…
Gaahl’s Wyrd + Tribulation + Uada + Idle Hands @ O2 Academy, Islington, London
Gaahl’s Wyrd + Tribulation + Uada + Idle Hands @ O2 Academy, Islington 25th January 2019 Review by Demitri Levantis Photography by Claudia Black A celebration of all things black, death and Gothic metal came to London this evening, with the O2 Academy in Islington playing host to Gaahl celebrating…
Swallow the Sun – When a Shadow is Forced Into the Light
Reviewed: February 2019 Released: 2019, Century Media Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes I haven’t properly listened to Swallow the Sun since their melodic death-doom debut, so this will be something of an update and education. I have read about their works though: I know that Songs From the North…
Unshine – Astrala
Reviewed: April 2018 Released: Jan 19th (EU) Feb 9th (North America) on Rockshots Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Rebekah Ann Unshine are a Finnish quintet with four previous albums under their belt, after moving around releasing their albums through different record labels they have settled with Rockshots Records who have just released…
Paradise Lost – Host (Remastered 2018)
Reviewed: April 2018 Released: 1999, EMI Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Please follow and like us:
Levania – The Day I Left Apart
Reviewed: April 2018 Released: 2018, Sliptrick Records Rating: 1/5 Reviewer: Andrew Cook Gothic Metal/Metalcore is how this band has been described, and for this reviewer the title did not fill me with great confidence when this arrived in my inbox make no doubt about it. I’m old school, the only…