Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Purity Through Fire Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis It would be quite a cliché to say a veteran of a certain scene will produce some of the best new music, but the reason that’s a cliché is that it normally turns out to be true.…
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Sepulchral Curse – Only Ashes Remain
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Transcending Obscurity Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Bands who fuse black and death metal are among this critic’s favourite genres. Blackened death metal is all well and good but it is nice to come across a band with a very catchy death metal sound but…
Sorcerer – Interview with Kristian Niemann
Interview with Kristian Niemann Interview by Demitri Levantis We caught up with Sorcerer’s guitar player Kristian Niemann to discuss the new album and how he finds life as an established musician. www.facebook.com/sorcererdoom www.instagram.com/kristianxniemann/?hl=en Please follow and like us:
Black Altar & Kirkebrann – Deus Inversus
Reviewed: July 2020 Released: 2020, Odium Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Polish black metal institution Black Altar has teamed up with the Norwegian outfit Kirkebrann (“church burning”) to create a brand new split record stating how the metal sounds of both nations have not waned in the current state of…
Wilderun – Veil of Imagination
Reviewed: July 2020 Released: 2019, Century Media Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis On the surface, Veil of Imagination from the Boston-based Wilderun looks like another progressive or experimental metal album, but once you dig deeper you find there’s plenty more to this band and album than meets the eye.…
Devastator – Baptised in Blasphemy
Reviewed: July 2020 Released: 2020, Clobber Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Metal is a forever evolving phenomenon, and that is not done just by bands taking the old sound and adding new things, but also by the kids who keep the old school alive. By that, I am referring…
Ancient Curse – Interview with Gunnar Erxleben
Interview with Gunnar Erxleben of Ancient Curse Interview by Beandog Facebook | Ancient Curse website Many fans of German progressive power metal will remember Ancient Curse from the two albums they put out towards the end of the nineties. The Landing and Thirsty Fields both set the template for the band’s…
Interview with Wilderun
Interview with Evan Berry (vocals, guitar, piano), Dan Muller (bass, synths, orchestrations), and Wayne Ingram (orchestrations) of Wilderun. Wilderun: www.facebook.com/OfficialWilderun www.instagram.com/wilderunband twitter.com/wilderunband With the release of their third studio album “Veil of Imagination” getting closer, we caught up with the symphonic/progressive collective Wilderun to see what the band has in…
Ignea – The Realms of Fire and Death
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…
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…