Reviewed: September 2021 Released: 2021 Xtreem Music Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Death metal, the world’s most extreme genre; Sweden, the home of some of the biggest and best death metal bands in the world; put those two things together and what do you have? The new album by Kalmar-based…
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Interview with Grisly
Grisly Interview with Rogga Johansson Interview by Demitri Levantis Social Media: xtreemmusic.bandcamp.com/album/salting-the-earth With the release of their sophomore album, “Salting the Earth”, around the corner, we caught up with Sweden’s death metallers Grisly to find out what’s been going on in the band’s world and what they have planned for…
Legendary Swedish punk/garage/rock n roll band Sator – Chips Kiesbye
Chips Kiesbye – Legendary Swedish punk//rock ‘n’ roll band Sator Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall Thanks to Johan Haller at Sound Pollution Distribution AB for setting up the interview Thanks to Wild Kingdom for the promo pictures of the band. Legendary Swedish rock ‘n’ roll act Sator, which celebrated 30 years…
Wormwood – Arkivet
Reviewed: [August 2021] Released [2021 Sound Pollution] Rating [4/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Funny – or at least very odd – thing happened as Swedish black metallers Wormwood worked toward the release of their third full-length. Originally titled Vita Arkivet – which translates as “The White Archive,” an official document detailing…
Seventh Crystal-Delirium
Reviewed: July 2021 Released: May 2021, Frontiers Music Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Buddy H It’s always nice to sit down with a debut release from a brand-new band. Within the first few seconds of pressing play, you can usually tell whether or not the group has what it takes to make…
Electric Boys – bandleader/guitarist/vocalist Conny Bloom and guitarist Martin Thomander
Band leader/guitarist/vocalist Conny Bloom and guitarist Martin Thomander – Electric Boys Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall Thanks Fernando Reis at Mighty Music/Target Group for setting up the interview Thanks to Mighty Music for the promo pictures of the band. Legendary Swedish rockers Electric Boys are back with a new album,…
Binary Creed – Inferno Part 1
Reviewed: May, 2021 Released: 2021, Stefan Rådlund & Rickard Thelin Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Erich Umeå, Sweden’s Binary Creed are set to return with their first release since 2016’s A BATTLE WON. INFERNO PART 1 is the first of two planned releases this year, with the second part expected late in…
Chez Kane
Chez Kane Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall Thanks to Stacey Webb for setting up the interview. Thanks to Frontiers Records for the promo pictures Promo pictures of Chez Kane is taken by: Scott Elliott British singer Chez Kane released her self-titled solo debut album a few weeks ago (March 2021). Prior…
The Crown – Royal Destroyer
Reviewed: [March 2021] Released [2021 Metal Blade Records] Rating [4/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Swedish melodic death metallers The Crown have been rolling right along since reforming a decade ago after a five-year hiatus, even if they tend to get a bit lost in the mix as acts like the similarly…
Age of Woe – Envenom
Reviewed: March 2021 Released: 2021, Lifeforce Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Age of Woe, hailing from Sweden’s death metal capital, Gothenburg, have released their third full-length album, Envenom. This, along with their previous ventures into the worlds of doom, sludge, and crust punk, has made the band stand out…
Cult Of Luna – The Raging River
Reviewed: [March 2021] Released [2021 Red Creek Recordings] Rating [4.5/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Though categorized as an EP, the latest outing from Swedish post-metal/doom/prog sextet Cult Of Luna – and first for their own Red Creek Recordings – delivers a full album’s worth of material by most bands’ standards. With…
Tectonic Displacement – The Futility of Man
Review Date: March 2021 Released: 2021, Independent Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: RC2000 Tectonic Displacement are a relatively new band from Kiruna, Sweden, and they’ve released their debut EP called THE FUTILITY OF MAN. The recording, mixing, and mastering was done by Johan Karlsson, and the cover artwork is from Andreas Johansson.…
Interview with Age of Woe
Interview by Demitri Levantis Interview with Sonny Stark, vocals Social Media: www.facebook.com/ageofwoe www.instagram.com/ageofwoe/ shop.ageofwoe.net/ Following the release of their fourth studio album, “Envenom”, Metal-Rules caught up with Swedish Death Metal/Sludge/Crust Punk outfit Age of Woe to see what the band has been up to, and has planned for the future.
Viral – Viral
Review Date: February 2021 Released: 2021, Independent Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: RC2000 Hailing from Sweden, heavy metallers Viral have released their first album entitled VIRAL. They describe themselves as being ‘heavily rooted in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, with influences from thrash and power metal’. I’d say that’s a…
Persuader-Necromancy
Reviewed: February, 2021 Released: 2021, Frontiers Rating: 5 /5 Reviewer: JP Persuader stands in a pretty unique position here at Metal-Rules.com. Of the thousands and thousands of albums we have reviewed over a quarter of a century, I believe that Persuader is the only band to get five consecutive, perfect,…