Patroness are a five piece group from Belgium and “Fatum” is their debut album for the metal world to hear. A bit of a hybrid there is black metal and doom with touches of stoner sludge, but all of it cohesively comes together for a rather unique experience. The music tends to pretty clearly state when it is the black metal or doom/ sludge, but not...

13/07/2022

Inferia come from Lahti, Finland and are true veterans on the extreme metal scene - the band was created in 1989! They have seven full-length albums in their history (some of them with remarkable titles like "Fucking Is A Great Way To Get To Know New People" and "Grind Cumpaign" is their latest offering. Prepare yourselves for 22 audio grenade...

12/07/2022

Having members or ex-members from bands as Devangelic, Natrium, Vomit The Soul and Septycal Gorge in your ranks, there is only one genre you pledge your allegiance to. Super-fast, super-tight and totally destructive brutal death metal. Posthuman Abomination are back with their second full length album and what we get is nothing less than the previo...

11/07/2022

Provectus rose from the ashes of the melodeath group Galning from Belgium for a much more sinister take on metal. Going more the black metal route, these three members craft a sound more like 1349 or Sargeist but with a bit more atmospheric flair that makes things sound darker rather than lush. While the typical black metal tropes are there be it t...

06/07/2022

Roaring like a freight train 3 years after their debut, the German based Nightbearer bring forth a heavy concept album based off the fantasy writer Robert Jordan’s “Wheel Of Time.” While “Ghosts Of A Darkness to Come” is a bit more sinister, in lyrics and sound, it does justice for the fans of the book with the approach and avoids as much as possib...

05/07/2022

Slob grace us with their debut offering entitled “Deepwoods Shack Of Sodomy” and when you have a band name and an album title like this, how can you go wrong? While pushing the envelope of shock value, the band attack things head on with a veracity shared by many label mates, however, Slob seem to stand out from the rest in that they rely more on t...

04/07/2022

Death Apocalypse's debut album "Scars to the flesh" is here and it will not disappoint lovers of 90's Swedish death metal, see Dismember, Entombed above all, although it should be noted that they have some interesting details.Death Apocalypse is a trio from Germany, specifically from Laudenbach in Baden-Württemberg, a city where bands like Fragment...

30/06/2022

Focusing on history in a brutal fashion, Greek brutal death metal duo Carthage continue on making a massacre of a soundtrack to war with their 2nd album “Sicilian Wars.” The album goes by pretty quick clocking barely 30 minutes making each track about 3 minutes or less of just onslaught after onslaught of death metal. Not much deviation from their...

29/06/2022

Korseld has been around since 2011 and are bringing fans a more refined version of their past with a re-issue of their debut “Jordevandring.” Back in 2014 the recording wasn’t quite everything the band wanted it to be (considering it was just a 2 man band with Daniel Reese on guitars and Daniel Tjernberg on vocals and keys), though the band did a g...

28/06/2022

Joey Veerbeek is the instrumental and vocal mastermind behind this pummelling, one man-band from the Netherlands. And whilst the title Goatmilker may come across more humorous than serious, its glorious outcome cements the project/band into direct attributes of the peers and influences behind Veerbeek's grand scheme.This third album from Goatmilker...

27/06/2022

For once, I am going to review a post black metal and rock album or from another style? In fact we get lost in the musical classification as the influences take you to folk, black, psychedelic and rock. Only one thing remains certain is that we are staying in the land of the 1000 lakes or Finland for the uninitiated. Einvigi, since it is about...

23/06/2022

Wasting The Genesis are a five piece death metal outfit from Spain with only a few albums under their belt, but lots of time in between to hone their technique and demonstrate that they really have a promising sound. Six years after their debut they’ve unleashed their 2nd EP, and though it is only four tracks they’re showing progress compared to th...

22/06/2022

Serpents Oath ascend to the next level of their story with the 2nd chapter of the Lucifer rise to power entitled “Ascension.” More rounded out and diverse than their debut, the album shows all the promise a straightforward black metal fan should expect: icy riffs (but not quite Immortal icy) that cut like razors, thundering drums that hurt with pre...

21/06/2022

Taking listeners on a blast from the late 90s, Japanese one man band In Nothingness lands its debut with a strong mix of more classic melodic death metal. While not quite a modern masterpiece, the style of the mysterious ‘Lord Nothingness’ that has been doing this since 2014 invokes the styling of old In Flames and early Dark Tranquillity within th...

20/06/2022

Canada’s Truent have been active since 2012 but have only now finally gotten their first full length album to let fans hear, and it is a groove metal masterpiece. While not quite Pantera or Soulfly legendary, “Through The Vale of Earthly Torments” is a whirlwind of death metal inspired pace with tons of chugging melody, Throwdown esque groove, and...

15/06/2022