Reviewed: June 2021 Released: 2021, DevFire Entertainment Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Graeme Smith Debut albums can be a bit a hit and miss. Often they are raw at the edges but offer hope and promise of what’s to come later, and then sometimes they can be the omen of doom and…
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Interview with IMMORTAL SYNN
Interview with Tony Z (IMMORTAL SYNN) Interview by Jack Merry 14th May 2021
Interview with Akiavel
Interview with Akiavel Chris – guitars Butch – drums Interview by Kira Levine Akiavel online: Bandcamp Facebook Instagram Spotify Twitter YouTube Hi there! Thanks for your time, hope that you are keeping safe and well. Please state your names and positions in Akiavel. Chris: Hey I’m Chris, guitarist in…
Christian Liljegren – Melodic Passion
Reviewed: May, 2021 Released: 2021, Melodic Passion Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry With 35 years as a hard rock/metal singer and nearly 40 albums worth of experience, Christian Liljegren has established himself as one of the most productive metal musicians on the metal scene. His debut solo project, released under…
Immortal Synn – Force of Habit
Reviewed: May, 2021 Released: 2021, independent Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry IMMORTAL SYNN is a thrash metal band hailing from the mile-high city of Denver, Colorado, and originally formed in 2004. After dealing with several lineup changes, the band has released two EPs and now two full-length studio albums: 2017’s Machine…
The Plague – Within Death
Reviewed: May 2021 Released: 2021, Bitter Loss Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis It is something of a cliché for a band of any genre to call themselves “old school”, particularly if the said genre has a wide, versatile and eclectic or experimental canon of practitioners like death metal. However,…
Band of Spice – By The Corner of Tomorrow
Reviewed: April 2021 Released: 2021, Scarlet Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry Beginning his time in the music industry as the vocalist and bass player for 90s’ stoner metal band Spiritual Beggars, Swedish musician and songwriter Christian “Spice” Sjöstrand has a fondness for 1970s’ hard rock and has incorporated elements…
Bushido Code – The Ronin
Reviewed: April 2021 Released: 2021, Upstate Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry Over the lockdown period, I’d grown quite fond of (some would say obsessed with) a video game called Ghost of Tsushima to the point where I became completely engrossed in the world, combat, storylines, and legacy, and I…
Stormtide – A Throne of Hollow Fire
Reviewed: March, 2021 Released: 2021, Metal Hell Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Graeme Smith There is a lot of symphonic death metal around these days, and I mean a lot. In fact if you Google exactly that you get a hit with a page of ‘Top symphonic death metal artists’ which…
Stortregn – Impermanence
Reviewed: March 2021 Released: 2021, The Artisan Era Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Svetlana Likhacheva Newbies of The Artisan Era, Geneva-Switzerland-based act Stortregn are ready to show us the next level of their skill with a new record – Impermanence. This 8-track album is real space journey, exploring unorthodox ways and style…
Korpiklaani – Jylhä
Reviewed: March 2021 Released: 2021 , Nuclear Blast records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Svetlana Likhacheva After releasing several tracks in 2020, Finnish folk metal band Korpiklaani has dropped a full-length record called Jylhä, which takes us into a powerful and beautiful world full of marvellous and dynamic sound. The band dug…
Meuchelmord – Mordmelodien
Reviewed: March, 2021 Released: 2021, Purity Through Fire Rating: 2.5/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry For a decade now, Meuchelmord has been holding high the banner of traditional German black metal. The sole work of one Cernunnos AKA Kriegstreiber, the band have quietly built a body of work that is deeply reverent…
The Noctambulant – Hellrazor EP
Reviewed: March 2021 Released: 19th March 2021, self-released Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Graeme Smith I never understood why bands select dodgy covers for albums which don’t reflect the music contained. Well known examples of this are Black Sabbath’s ‘Paranioid’ and Anthrax’s ‘Fistful of Metal’, which the bands admit themselves are ropey…
Morrigu – In Turbulence
Reviewed: March 2021 Released: 2021, Ghost Sound Media Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Returning with their fourth full-length In Turbulence, Morrigu are a Swiss metal band founded in 1999 by Mirko and Severin Bunder (ex-Eluveitie). Starting out as a doom/death metal outfit, they have forged a more melodic and progressive…
Ainur – War of The Jewels
Reviewed: March 2021 Released: 2021, Rockshot Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Andrea Di Stasio “War of The Jewels” is an ambitious album, through which Ainur aims to bring to life the battles of Beleriand: if don’t speak Tolkien, you may already be lost, as the progressive rock orchestra’s new release is…