Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Century Media Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Swedish death metal veterans Necrophobic have returned with their ninth studio album: Dawn of the Damned, a title I would find quite fitting given how the world has received a lot of damnation this year by a pandemic…
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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…
Steelfest 2018 – Hyvinkaa Finland
Steelfest doen’t bargain nor joke when announcing bands for the fest. Its infernal and barbaric line-up has always offered a great deal of the most nihilistic and sadistic bands of the extreme metal. The line-up of Steelfest 2018 was both amazing and spectacular. The reputation of the fest has traveled fast…
Necrophobic – Mark Of The Necrogram
Reviewed: March 2018 Released: 2018, Century Media Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Mr. Metalguy In case you haven’t been paying attention, Necrophobic never actually got their due. Perennial “name you kinda recognize” as being important to that whole Swedish Melodeath thing while flirting with Black Metal and never quite being Dissection, Necrophobic…
SWEDENROCK 2014 – Solvesborg Sweden
Article and pictures by Arto Lehtinen, Marko Syrjala, and Patrick Clement Hell yeah! It’s time to enter the mighty Swedenrock Festival. A fantastic and the most enjoyable rock and metal festival on earth. It has to be pointed out that Metal Rules has covered Sweden Rock since 2001! Therefore, it…
Steelfest 2014 – Hyvinkää Finland
Steelfest 2014 – Hyvinkää Finland Pictures by Arto Lehtinen Steelfest has carved its immortal marks onto the metal festival map in Finland and managed to pull through these hard times whereas other festivals have collapsed. An extremely strong line-up offered killer bands from the front lines of the death/black metal genre.…
Former NECROPHOBIC/DARK FUNERAL Guitarist DAVID PARLAND Dead At 42
According to a Facebook posting from Matte Modin (DARK FUNERAL, INFERNAL, DEFLESHED), Swedish guitarist David Parland (NECROPHOBIC, DARK FUNERAL, INFERNAL) died on March 19 at the age of 42. No cause of death has yet been revealed. A founding member of the Swedish melodic death metal band NECROPHOBIC, Parland later…
MORBID ANGEL @ O2 Islington Academy
Morbid Angel @ O2 Islington Academy 22nd November 2011 Review by James Griffiths Photos by Andre Purvis Tuesday evening in Islington, London and it’s pretty cold outside and due to trains running at 5mph on the track and an extremely early opening time I find myself running to the O2…