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…
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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…
DEATH ANGEL – Guitarist Rob Cavestany discusses “Humanicide”, the band’s past and more
INTERVIEW WITH ROB CAVESTANY OF DEATH ANGEL The Bay Area thrash metal literally hit back when Testament, Exodus, and Death Angel embarked on the six-week tour crisscrossing Europe. Metal-Rules.Com had a pleasant opportunity of sitting down with the founder and guitarist of Death Angel, Rob Cavestany, to discuss various topics.…
Majestica – Above The Sky
Reviewed: February 2020 Released: 2019, Nuclear Blast Records Rating: 5/5 Reviewer: JP Since ABOVE THE SKY was my #1 pick for 2109 I suppose I should review it and explain why! Well, the reason I like it so much is that Majestica is basically the band Reinxeed with a new…
Beyond the Black with support act Forever Still on Heart of The Hurricane European Tour 2019 at Kulturbolaget Malmo, Sweden
Beyond the Black (headline) Heart of The Hurricane European Tour 2019 Forever Still (support) Kulturbolaget Malmö, Sweden 9/11 – 2019 Live review and pictures by: Anders Sandvall Beyond The Black led by singer Jennifer Haben stopped by Malmö Sweden at their Heart Of the Hurricane European Tour earlier this…
Black Star Riders with support act Diamond Head on Another State Of Grace European Tour 2019 – leg 1 – at Kulturbolaget Malmo, Sweden
Black Star Riders – headline act Another State Of Grace European Tour 2019 – leg 1 – Diamond Head – very special guests Kulturbolaget Malmo, Sweden 31/10 – 2019 Live pictures and review by: Anders Sandvall The brand new Black Star Riders brand new album ANOTHER STATE OF GRACE came…
Copenhell Festival 2019 Refshaleoen Copenhagen, Denmark
Copenhell Festival 2019 Refshaleoen Copenhagen Denmark 19-22/6 Live review and pictures by Anders Sandvall For 2019, the Copenhell festival celebrates ten years in hell. As I have visited the festival almost every year, of course, I had to cover this year’s edition as well. I’ve really come to love the…
Destruction – Born To Perish
Reviewed: September 2019 Released: 2019, Nuclear Blast Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Pete Mutant Destruction are back with their 16th full length album, which is impressive in itself. Their last release two years ago saw the band once again revisit and re-record some of the best of their earlier work. They…
Testament with support act FKU on Summer Europen Tour 2019 Kulturbolaget Malmo, Sweden
Testament – Summer European Tour 2019 FKU – support act Kulturbolaget, Malmo, Sweden July 2, 2019 Live pictures and review by: Anders Sandvall The thrash metal legends Testament are pounding out their music across Europe. In Sweden the band only did two select shows, and I was really happy when…
SABATON reveal first album trailer about ‘The Great War’
Swedish heavy metal heroes SABATON are set to release their new album ‘The Great War’ on July 19, 2019. Today the band reveals the first album trailer, in which Joakim Broden and Pär Sundström talk about different aspects of the album. Bassist Pär Sundström comments: “We choose ‘Fields of Verdun’…
Sonata Arctica with support on Acoustic Adventures European Tour 2019 Palladium Malmoe, Sweden
Sonata Arctica – headline Acoustic Adventures European Tour 2019 Witherfall – support act Palladium, Malmo, Sweden 15/3 – 2019 Live review and pictures by: Anders Sandvall It’s been a while since Finnish melodic power metal act Sonata Arctica released their effort, 2016’s THE NINTH HOUR. Despite that, the band’s out…
Overkill + Destruction + Flotsam and Jetsam @ SWG3, Glasgow
Overkill + Destruction + Flotsam and Jetsam @ SWG3, Glasgow Sunday, 24th March 2019 Review By: Pete Mutant Photography By: Gavin Lowrey Overkill were back in Glasgow, almost three years after their last visit to these parts where some stuff happened which messed with the supporting acts, and what could…
Overkill – The Wings of War
Reviewed: April, 2019 Released: 2019, Nuclear Blast Rating: 4.0/5 Reviewer: Pete Mutant Bloody hell, it’s Overkill album time yet again and here is album nineteen, ‘The Wings of War’. Having just seen Overkill on their most recent tour, I was leaving the writing of this until the last minute so…