Notorious Swedish black metal collective WATAIN is proud to announce that it will join forces with equally infamous Norwegian black metal legends MAYHEM for a tour through North America, aptly labeled “The Sanguine Sodomy Of North America,” starting on March 7th, 2022. They will be supported by US blackened speed…
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Carcass – Torn Arteries
Reviewed: November 2021 Released: 2021, Nuclear Blast Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Carcass are back, and it seems their seventh studio outing Torn Arteries is an improvement on several levels as it is, in my opinion, a far better blast of veteran UKDM than Surgical Steel was back in…
Ministry’s upcoming album “Moral Hygiene”, out October 1. Al Jourgensen discusses inspiration for ‘Search And Destroy’ cover in new video interview
Last month, MINISTRY premiered the music video for the new track ‘Search And Destroy’ via Rolling Stone. The song is a unique take on The Stooges’ hit that offers a uniquely slowed down tempo and frontman Al Jourgensen’s guttural howl that amplifies the song’s wartime critique. In this new video…
Cradle Of Filth – Dracula Spectacular Live Stream
Cradle Of Filth Dracula Spectacular Live Streamed Show 12/05/2021 Live review and pictures by: Rebecca Bush During the current state of affairs concerning live shows there has been spawned a new beast: the live streamed event. As time has gone by it has been increasingly necessary to think outside the…
AMORPHIS – “Vinyl Collection 2006 – 2020” boxset and “Live at Helsinki Ice Hall” OUT NOW!!!
While concerts and cheering crowds seem to be a long-lost echo from the past these days, melancholic progressive metallers AMORPHIS bring back some of the life and uncomparable energy that many of us have been missing so desperately. Recorded during a special hometown show that took place on December 7th,…
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…
Benediction – Scriptures
Benediction – Scriptures Reviewed: January 2021 Released: 2020, Nuclear Blast Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz Despite sporadic touring and the occasional festival appearance, it’s been 12 mother loving years since we’ve had a proper new Benediction LP. In that time we’ve had 3 US Presidential election cycles, 3 new…
My Dying Bride – Macabre Cabaret
Reviewed: December, 2020 Released: November, 2020 Nuclear Blast Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Theron Moore Eight months after dropping the epic and lumbering, “The Ghost of Orion,” UK doom and gloomers My Dying Bride have returned with new music, a four track EP “Macabre Cabaret.” The title track, also the first tune…
Carcass-Despicable
Reviewed: November, 2020 Released: October, 2020 Nuclear Blast Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Theron Moore Am I the only one that finds irony in the fact that UK gore hounds, Carcass, dropped new music in the midst of the modern-day black plague in October of this year? That’s right, the lads are…
ACCEPT release the second single/title track from their new studio album ‘Too Mean To Die’ alongside a lyric video
Accept release the second single/title track from their new studio album ‘Too Mean To Die’ alongside a lyric video In uncertain times like these, you can rely on ACCEPT to deliver the goods – they will not let anything or anyone get them down, not even a virus. Metal legends…
Amorphis – 30th Anniversary show – Tavastia Helsinki Finland
AMORPHIS THE 16TH OF OCTOBER, 2020 TAVASTIA HELSINKI FINLAND One of the most important exports of the Finnish metal scene is definitely Amorphis. The band started as a four-piece 30 years ago when previous bands dissolved. The band has faced up and downs and undergone quite changes a few changes…
NIGHTWISH-Human : II : Nature
Reviewed: July, 2020 Released: 2020, Nuclear Blast Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: JP Nightwish albums are always tough to review. They are one of the world’s biggest bands and everyone has an opinion when a new album comes around once every four or five years. The band is so big they write…
Witchcraft – Black Metal
Reviewed: [June 2020] Released [2020 Nuclear Blast Records] Rating [3/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson So let’s start with the obvious. Despite its title, the sixth album from Swedish occult rockers Witchcraft may be “black,” but it is most definitely not “metal” by any stretch – at least in the execution. In…
Sylosis – Cycle Of Suffering
Reviewed: May 2020 Released: 7th February 2020, Nuclear Blast Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Andrew Shirley England’s own Sylosis have returned from their hiatus and good grief, thank god for that. From first seeing and hearing them in the early 2000’s, they have gone from strength to strength and it seems like…
Testament,Exodus and Death Angel on The Bay Strikes Back European Tour 2020- leg 1 – Amager Bio Copenhagen,Denmark
Testament – Headline The Bay Strikes Back European Tour 2020 – leg 1 – Exodus – special guest Death Angel – support act Amager Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark 6/2 – 2020 Live review and pictures by: Anders Sandvall Christmas came really early for fans of thrash metal when Testament headed…