Reviewed: January 2021 Released: 2020, Inverse Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Kat Knite Bombastic metal band Corrosium from Kytäjä, Finland emerged in the final stretches of 2020 to deliver us their brand new EP, Undertow. Unlike their debut album, for which some of the songs were written before the formation of the band, the…
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CORROSIUM Interview
Interview with Olli Laine (Drummer) and Teppo Tirkkonen (Vocalist) of CORROSIUM Interview by Kat Knite Official Website – Facebook – Instagram – Spotify Listen to Undertow here: Spotify – Amazon Music Bombastic metal band Corrosium from Kytäjä, Finland, have recently released their new EP Undertow through Inverse Records. Check out what they had to…
WITHOUT MERCY Interview
Interview with DJ Temple (guitarist) of WITHOUT MERCY Interview by Kat Knite Official Website – Bandcamp – Facebook – Twitter – Instagram – Spotify Listen to Seismic here: Bandcamp – Spotify – Youtube Music – Deezer Vancouver based death-metal act Without Mercy had been hard at work for the last few years working on fresh material, making sure…
Fates Warning – Long Day Good Night
Reviewed: December, 2020 Released: 2020, Metal Blade Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Kat Knite I don’t even know where to start with this one. An impressive force in progressive metal for over 35 years, Fates Warning return to the scene with their longest and most epic album yet: Long Day Good Night. Compared…
Without Mercy – Seismic
Reviewed: December, 2020 Released: 2020, self-release Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kat Knite Vancouver based groove-infused death metal band Without Mercy rise like a supermassive tsunami wave over the West coast of Canada and send ripples across the planet with their new release, Seismic. As the skies turn fatal blue and dominate the…
Act of Creation – The Uncertain Light
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Black Sunset Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry The Uncertain Light is the brand new fourth studio album from the German death metal heavyweights Act of Creation. Born from the ashes of the nineties German band E605, guitarist Carsten Schluch didn’t hesitate to form a new outfit with…
High Spirits – Interview with Chris Black
High Spirits – Interview with Chris Black Interview by Jack Merry 29th June 2020 www.hrrecords.de/high_roller/start.html highspiritsmetal.bandcamp.com/ business.facebook.com/highenergyrock/ Heavy metal and hard rock outfit High Spirits are set to release their fourth full-length studio album Hard To Stop on the 31st July 2020 and we got to talk with the man…
Pale Horseman – For Dust Thou Art
Reviewed: June 2020 Released: 2020, Independent Rating: 5/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry Chicago, Illinois has been a breeding ground for sludgy doom metal in recent years with the emergence of bands such as The Atlas Moth, Bongripper, Indian and Ledge, yet there’s another lesser-known yet equally deserving name who have been…
Re-Armed – Ignis Aeternum
Reviewed: June 2020 Released: 2020, Black Lion Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kat Knite Finnish melodic death metal band RE-ARMED strike again with their fourth full length album, ‘Ignis Aeternum’. Together since 2001, the band has undergone several lineup changes and released three previous albums in their two-decade long journey.…
The Acacia Strain – It Comes In Waves
Reviewed: May 2020 Released: 27th December 2019, Closed Casket Activities Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Andrew Shirley The Acacia Strain are not your average heavy band: their sound has progressed through releases, getting heavier, grittier and just downright filthy since their inception in 2001. Since then they’ve gone several line up…
Diabolical Mental State – Diabolical World
Reviewed: October 2019 Released: 2019 – Self Released Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Beandog Formed in 2012, Diabolical Mental State’s debut album has been a long time coming. That’s not to suggest the band haven’t been busy. By all accounts there is a healthy underground metal scene in Lisbon which the band…
Stortregn – Evocation Of Light
Reviewed: October 2019 Released: 2019, Non Serviam Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Beandog It’s been almost ten years since Stortregn released their debut album, Devoured By Oblivion. In the years that followed, the Swiss black metal band have maintained a steady course of live shows and regular album releases – one…
Lik – Mass Funeral Evocation
Reviewed: May, 2019 Released: 2019, Metal Blade Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Courtney Solloway This album is heavy. Seriously heavy. However, this kind of lets it down in ways I don’t see very often. Now, if you know me and what I’ve reviewed in the past, you’ll know that I absolutely love…
The Three Tremors – The Three Tremors
Reviewed: February 2019 Released: 2019, Steel Cartel Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Beandog “Three times louder than a sonic boom. Three fingers on the hand of doom!” This is the description used on the press release to describe the brand new collaboration from three of heavy metal’s more formidable vocalists: Tim “Ripper”…
Cauldron & Primitai @ The Black Heart, Camden
Cauldron & Primitai @ The Black Heart, Camden 20th September 2018 Review By Beandog Photography By Jo Blackened Perhaps more than any other London borough, Camden is the metalhead pub-crawlers wet dream. While nearly every town will have a rock-friendly pub somewhere on their streets – Perhaps a barman who doesn’t…