Reviewed: June, 2020 Released: 2020, Kadabra Music Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kat Knite Ukrainian melodic metal band IGNEA release ‘The Realms of Fire and Death’, a three-part experience of a heavy collision between metal and symphonic, electronic, and folk elements. Each part consists of three songs, outlining different perspectives on the…
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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…
Unmerciful – Wrath Encompassed
Reviewed: May 2020 Released: 2020, Willowtip Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Beandog In order to whet the appetite of any listener wanting to increase their intake of aural brutality, Kansas death metallers Unmerciful describe Wrath Encompassed as their “angriest and most destructive album to date.” It’s their third full length recording, and…
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…
Mayhem – Daemon
Reviewed: February 2020 Released: 2019, Century Media Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Mayhem, the most notorious band in black metal and, allegedly, the most notorious band in all Scandinavia. A band with a history tarnished with murder, suicide and arson – all of which I will not go into…
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…
Imperium Dekadenz Interview with Horaz: Vocals, Guitars, Synths, Lyrics
Imperium Dekadenz Interview Interview by Ambra Chilenwa Hey, and thanks for your time today. You’ve been established for quite a while now, what keeps the band going and to keep gaining new fans? Passion. It feels good to have something valuable in life which is increasing. You’re about to release “When…
SiXforNinE – Parallel Universe
Reviewed: August 2019 Released: 2019 – Eclipse Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Beandog Those coming to SiXforNinE via the news that they are fronted by the former sticksman of Greek gothic metal band Septicflesh should adjust their expectations accordingly. For this release, Fotis Benardo has stepped out from behind the drum…
Interview with Dom Smith
Interview with Dom Smith by Jo Blackened Dom’s a Hull based businessman and musician. He runs a music magazine, ‘Soundsphere’ www.soundspheremag.com/ which offers young bands and creatives in Northern England an outlet and opportunities for budding writers. He’s also the drummer for two bands, Mary & The Ram and Parasitic…
Firespawn – Abominate
Reviewed: July 2019 Released: 2019, Century Media Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Beandog “We’re not a Satanic band. Not in the normal way you’d define Satanism anyway. Like a devil with a tail, wings, and a giant fork. That’s not what I’m about. That’s not what we’re about. But I do…
West Of Hell – Blood of the Infidel
Reviewed: May, 2019 Released: 2019, self-released Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Courtney Solloway This album is different and beautiful in oh-so-many ways. Firstly there is the combination of death metal, power metal and thrash metal, all in their traditional senses but with a new twist. Then there are songs like Dying Tomorrow…
Bloodbound – Rise Of The Dragon Empire
Reviewed: May 2019 Released: 2019, AFM Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Courtney Solloway I had a lot of fun listening to this album. In truth, power metal isn’t a genre I find myself exploring very often. In fact, if I’m being completely honest the only one I can name off the…
Comatose Vigil A.K. – Evangelium Nihil
Reviewed: March 2019 Released: 2018 – Non Serviam Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Beandog Evangelium Nihil represents something of a triumph over adversity for Russian doom band, Comatose Vigil A.K. Recorded with the help of David Unsaved from Ennui and John Devos of Mesmur, this current version of the band has taken the…
Blood Feast – Chopped, Diced And Sliced
Reviewed: March 2019 Released: 2018 – Hells Headbangers Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Beandog The press release accompanying Chopped, Sliced And Diced describes it as a four track mini album (six if you buy the CD or cassette release) intended to maintain the “fast and furious” momentum between Blood Feast‘s 2017 comeback record…
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”…