Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Iron Bonehead Productions Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Haling from Australia and founded just a decade ago, Temple Nightside will be releasing their fourth full-length Pillars Of Damnation on August 7th, via Iron Bonehead Productions. Their label states: “By now, Temple Nightside require little to…
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Sanity Control – War on Life
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: 2020, Selfmadegod Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry Sanity Control is a crossover thrash metal band hailing from Warsaw, Poland who pay homage to the classic metal sounds while combining it with a distorted hardcore punk assault and shoving the whole thing through a blender repeatedly. I…
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,…
Avatar – Hunter Gatherer
Reviewed: August 2020 Released: August 7th 2020, Century Media Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Rebecca Bush Bringing us their eagerly anticipated eighth studio album are Swedish metal dandies, Avatar! ‘Hunter Gatherer’ takes us into new depths for easily the darkest, most malevolent offering yet from the band. Taking no prisoners from the…
PERSEKUTOR Interview
Interview with PERSEKUTOR – Vlad the Inhaler (vocals) Interview by Jack Merry totalpersekution.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/persekutor/ svartrecords.com/product/persekutor-permanent-winter/ We sat down with Ice Metal band PERSEKUTOR to discuss the upcoming debut album and more! Please follow and like us:
MESSIAH Interview
Interview with MESSIAH – Steve Karrer (drums) Interview by Jack Merry www.facebook.com/MESSIAHthrashingmadness/ Formed in Switzerland in 1984, MESSIAH came onto the extreme metal scene kicking and screaming and released two truly ground-breaking albums on Chainsaw Murder Records. We spoke to the band’s drummer Steve Karrer about their upcoming EP, the…
Convocation – Interview with LL and MN
Interview with LL (vocals) and MN (instruments) Interview by Kira Levine www.facebook.com/ConvocationDoom/ Shortly before the release of their sophomore album Ashes Coalesce, we caught up with Finnish duo Convocation to discuss their latest release and more. Please follow and like us:
High Spirits – Interview with Chris Black
High Spirits – Interview with Chris Black Interview by Jack Merry 29th June 2020 www.hrrecords.de/high_roller/start.html highspiritsmetal.bandcamp.com/ business.facebook.com/highenergyrock/ Heavy metal and hard rock outfit High Spirits are set to release their fourth full-length studio album Hard To Stop on the 31st July 2020 and we got to talk with the man…
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…
Velkhanos – The Wrath
Reviewed: July, 2020 Released: 2020, Art Gates Records Rating: 4.0/5.0 Reviewer: Kat Knite Velkhanos are a five piece band that combine melodic death metal and black metal to perfectly blend the brutality of an extreme genre with the emotion and passion of heavy metal. They formed in 2018 in Spain, and have released…
Northern Crown – In A Pallid Shadow
Reviewed: July 2020 Released: 2020, Self-release Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry Hailing from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, epic doom metallers Northern Crown are about to release their third full-length album, entitled In A Pallid Shadow, on July 3rd, 2020. After forming in 2013 and releasing their debut EP In The Hands of The…
Reverber – Sect of Faceless
Reviewed: July, 2020 Released: 2020, Punishment 18 Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry Italian thrash metal band Reverber return with their third full-length album entitled Sect of Faceless. Founded in 2007 by a group of young musicians with a hunger and a fire to deliver thrash metal at maximum power, Reverber released their excellent…
Ice War – Defender, Destroyer
Reviewed: July, 2020 Released: 2020, Fighter Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry ICE WAR is a speed metal project formed solely by Jo Capitalicide shortly after his previous group IRON DOGS disbanded in 2015. Since then, he’s been releasing demos, EP’s and albums at a relentless pace! Now, ICE WAR…
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…
Blizzen – Interview with Andi Heindl (Guitars)
Hailing from Giessen in central Germany, thrash metal band Blizzen have just released their blistering second full length album – World In Chains (You can read our thoughts on it HERE). We spoke to their guitarist, Andi Heindl about the band, the new record, life before lock-down and how things…