Reviewed: December 2021 Released: 2021, self-released Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis One thing I love about black metal is its ability to take very calm and content themes such as nature and make them sound delightfully evil. That is very much the case for the new release from UK atmospheric…
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Earthwomb – Becoming Immanence
Reviewed: December 2021 Released: 2021, self-released Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Becoming Immanence is the debut EP from the Peruvian black metal outfit Earthwomb and immanence has definitely been achieved by this 31-minute piece of truly impressive black metal talent the South American trio have concocted. South America has its…
Winterfylleth + Fen + Dread Sovereign @ The Boston Music Rooms, London
Winterfylleth + Fen + Dread Sovereign @ The Boston Music Rooms, London 23rd October 2021 Review by Demitri Levantis Photos by Dovalde Gaidelionyte www.instagram.com/dova_photography/
Crystal Coffin – The Starway Eternal
Reviewed: November 2021 Released: 2021, self-released Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Canada, a country that has given the world a fair share of great bands, like Woods of Ypres and Wormwitch to name a couple. Though it seems another group from Vancouver are on their way to the head table…
Age of the Wolf/Tel (Split) – Vigils
Reviewed: November 2021 Released: 2021, Electric Talon Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kat Knite From a pair of distant countries comes a beautiful doom marriage of two equally melancholic, heavy groups – Costa Rica’s Age of the Wolf and Tel from the United States. While the former lay an intriguingly intense, sludgy…
Necronautical – Slain In The Spirit
Reviewed: October 2021 Released: 2021, Candlelight Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Necronautical: all the way from Manchester, this quartet have been working non-stop for the last decade to get into the upper echelons of British black metal, and I can now say they have secured their seats at the…
Sunless – Urraca
Reviewed: October 2021 Released: 2017, Willowtip Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kat Knite American death-metal band Sunless have made significant impact in recent years with their unique and outside-the-box take on the genre, melting groove and chaos together in their bottomless cauldron of creation. Honouring legendary bands like Gorguts and Gojira, they write music…
Anomaly – Planet Storm
Reviewed: October 2021 Released: 2021, self-released Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Anomaly, all the way from Milwaukee, Wisconsin have released their debut studio album after a decade on the road. And with said album, they have certainly solidified themselves into the echelons of noteworthy 21st-century death metal with how they…
Sunless – Ylem
Reviewed: October 2021 Released: 2021, Willowtip Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kat Knite Back and even bigger than before, Sunless are breaking soundwaves again with the much awaited release of Ylem, part 2 of a dissonant and terrifying experimental death-metal trilogy. On October 29th, we’ll be lucky to witness the evolution of…
Spiritual Deception – Oxymoron
Reviewed: September 2021 Released: 2021, self-released Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Oxymoron is the latest EP from the atmospheric brutal death metal organization, Spiritual Deception – all the way from Italy. Atmospheric and brutal death metal are two terms I never thought I’d see in the same sentence, but it…
Saturnian Mist – Shamatanic
Reviewed: September 2021 Released: 2021, Petrichor Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Occult black metal might be a cliché for the Finnish scene, or indeed any scene in the black metal world, but when you get a band who have taken all the best elements of the most obscure and intriguing…
BOTTOMLESS – Interview with Giorgio Trombino
BOTTOMLESS 30th July 2021 Interview by Kat Knite Italian doom metal trio BOTTOMLESS are back with a stunning new self-titled record, out now via Spikerot Records. We got a chance to catch up with lead singer & guitarist Giorgio Trombino and learn all about the process and inspiration behind the new release, as well…
Bloodbound – Creatures of the Dark Realm
Reviewed: August 2021 Released: 2021, AFM Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry Swedish power metal outfit Bloodbound have returned in 2021 with their ninth studio album entitled Creatures of the Dark Realm, the follow-up to 2019’s well-received Rise of the Dragon Empire. Continuing the trend of anthemic, fist-pumping power metal akin…
Interview with Oldskull
Interview with Warranat (vocals) Interview by Demitri Levantis Social Media: inhumanassault.bandcamp.com/album/nether-hollow-of-no-return www.facebook.com/oldskullofdeath www.youtube.com/channel/UC69DyS_3rvrPvRvSiToIUIA Following the release of their debut album “Nether Hollow of No Return”, Metal Rules caught up with Thailand’s death metal collective Oldskull to talk about what the band have put into the new release and have in…
Taake – Avvik
Reviewed: July 2021 Released: 2021, Dark Essence Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Taake is one of the more mysterious bands from the Norwegian black metal world, and this is reflected in their new compilation release “Avvik”, which translates to “anomaly” or “deviation” in their native tongue. The objective of…