Interview with AZARATH Bart – Guitars Interview by Rossy Maguire Facebook | Official Website Hey and thank you for your time to do this interview! To kick-off, what’s the meaning behind the band’s name AZARATH? Hello. The name was taken from the track titled Azarath: Watching in Darkness of the…
NEW ALBUM 2020
DARK QUARTERER – Pompei
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Cruz Del Sur Music Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Rossy Maguire Prog-tinged epic metal from one of Italy’s most venerable acts! A concept album detailing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, DARK QUARTERER has crafted an album of high drama and impeccable musicianship with “Pompei”!…
RAGEHAMMER – Into Certain Death
Reviewed: September 2020 Released: 2020, Pagan Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Rossy Maguire Ragehammer formed in 2011 in Kraków, inspired by the Gods from Venom, Sodom, Bathory, and Impaled Nazarene, aimed at everyone and everything holy and correct. From their first demo “War Hawks” (Mythrone Promotion, 2012), through the full-length debut…
The Infernal Sea – Negotium Crucis
Reviewed: October 2020 Released: September 18th 2020, Apocalyptic Witchcraft Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Annalisa Orlando These black metallers from the fens of East Anglia, a flat nothingness that makes up much of the surrounding area native to The Infernal Sea, bring a nuanced and groove-rifting record of British black betal. Energetically…
Entartung – Maleficae Artes
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: August 7th 2020, Dunkelheit Produktionen Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Annalisa Orlando This German black metal trio deliver a classic record. The combination of high-pitched vocals and extraordinarily long tracks all hark back to the 90’s heyday of black metal. Having said that, the clean and tidy production…
Cardiac Arrest – The Day That Death Prevailed
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 27 July 2020, Boris Records/ Memento Mori Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Annalisa Orlando Staunch and pleasantly straightforward death metal from Chicago veterans. The record kicks off with “Thrive On Fear” with a howling siren. It’s a real headbanger, the best of roaring, aggressive death metal, with screeching…
Bull Elephant – Created From Death
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Eat Lead and Die Music Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Rossy Maguire UK anonymous collective BULL ELEPHANT will release its second album, Created From Death, in August on Eat Lead and Die Music. The album, part two in the BULL ELEPHANT trilogy mythos, picks up where the debut ended. The eponymous creature,…
Ancient Curse – The New Prophecy
Reviewed: June 2020 Released: 2020, Pure Steel Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Rossy Maguire ANCIENT CURSE is neither an ordinary power metal formation nor a prog metal band. Founded in 1985, they are also not a typical band of the eighties because their storm and stress phase emerged in the mid-1990s…
Sinisthra – The Broad And Beaten Way
Reviewed: June 2020 Released: 2020, Rockshots Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Beandog 15 years in the making, Sinisthra’s follow-up to their 2005 debut, Last Of The Stories Of Long Past Glories, has taken a lengthy and arduous route from conception to realisation. Significantly, The Broad And Beaten Way is a reference to…
Intense – Songs Of A Broken Future
Reviewed: June 2020 Released: 2020, Pure Steel Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Rossy Maguire Intense hail from the UK and released their first EP back in 1997, and it has been nine years since their last release but at long last, the new album is ready to be unleashed on the…
In This Moment – Mother
Reviewed: May 2020 Released: March 27th 2020, Atlantic Records Rating: 5/5 Reviewer: Rebecca Bush In This Moment’s much anticipated 7th studio album has been unleashed and it is nothing short of breath-taking. ‘Mother’ is rich and beautiful, taking elements from 2017 release ‘Ritual’ and expanding on the imagery and symbolism…