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…
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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…