Year: 2021

[photo credit: Kenneth Sporsheim] Norway’s hottest upstarts BOKASSA will finally release their long-awaited new album, Molotov Rocktail, this Friday, September 3 via Napalm Records! Their eclectic and catchy mix of stoner, sludge, metal and catchy […]

[photo credit: Krisztina Máté] With over 20 years of experience and five studio albums under their belts, Hungarian black/pagan metal outfit BORNHOLM are no longer strangers to the scene. Now, the band is ready to […]

Finnish Folk Metal Superstars KORPIKLAANI released their 11th studio album Jylhä back in February 2021. The album was hailed by critics and fans alike as the most elaborate and mature KORPIKLAANI album to date. While this might be true, it doesn’t mean […]

From the click of the play button, I’ve landed in a sweet Sludgy Breakdown, no need to wade through any long intros to find some face-melting Metal. As a long appreciator of Death Doom Sludge […]

Japanese metalcore veterans Sailing Before the Wind are back with their new EP ‘Immemorial’, showing everybody that they still belong in the ever-growing Tokyo metalcore scene. This ep features re-recordings of some of the best […]

Sepultura’s latest release is a compilation of recordings with special guests during the pandemic in 2020. At 15 tracks with a varied list of songs over 30+ years SepulQuarta is a diverse as the artists […]

Spain’s Barbarian Prophecies release their fifth full-length effort. the very metal Horizon. From the Moment Alfa begins and the twin guitar melody comes at you, Horizon is an album that throws you back and forward […]

Photo by Mario Schmitt German black metal band DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT released their brand new song “Morgen“, live via YouTube. The track is taken from their new ‘Noktvrn’, which will be released via Season […]

Italian symphonic metallers Eternal Silence will be releasing their new album “Timegate Anathema” on October 8, 2021 via Rockhots Records. Recorded at The Groove Factory (Udine, Italy) and Line/Out Studio (Milano, Italy) with mixing and […]

Image: Jon Pisani Australian metal favourites Void Of Vision usher a new era with the release of their new single ‘THE LONELY PEOPLE’ today, alongside the announce of their rescheduled Australian headline tour for January. While […]

Photo credit: Alex Morgan On October 29th, Whitechapel will release their new album, Kin, via Metal Blade Records. At this stage in the game, the name Whitechapel commands respect. Already sitting on one of the most enviable catalogs in […]

Australian extreme heavy metal act Minus Life unleash the title track Contorted Reality from their forthcoming sophomore album. Blending a mixture of thrash/death/black and prog metal influences with an accompaniment of orchestral sound being referred […]

Argentina’s Symphonic Metal band Slania has just released their new video for the single Limbo, on August 27th via their official YouTube channel. The new single is also available on Spotify since last week. For […]

In addition to its beers, wines and humor, Franconia in South Germany is also known for its excellent heavy metal bands. One of these bands is Dieversity from the city of Würzburg. Founded over a […]

Warkings is a fairly new Power Metal band that I have somehow managed to miss. Considering they have only been around since 2018 and “Revolution” is already their 3rd full-length album, I can tell this […]

Portal is an Australian experimental death metal band, founded in 1994. Their album “AVOW” was released in 2021. This album is really a beast to tackle, as it’s difficult to access for someone not used […]

Rage needs no introduction as a band that has flown the flag of German heavy metal since 1984.  They are described as one of the big four of German power metal.  With 30 years of […]

Evoking Winds originally hail from Belarus, and now have members who are based across the globe.  The album “Towards Homestead” delivers pagan folk melodies interlaced with blackened metal components that are hypnotically epic.  The album […]

USA Dissonant Black/ death metal duo release their fifth full length, a follow up to A Sire to the Ghouls of Lunacy. Veilburner exists in the memories of your nightmares, Nihilistic thoughts tinged with darkness, […]

NEFARIYM is a two-piece old school death metal band out of Melbourne, that I believe started out in 2019. They are set to release their debut album titled Morbid Delusions this September 24th via Inverse […]

Prolific US death Metal act Replicant unleash their fifth release! From the opening moments of Caverns Of Insipid Reflection, two things are immediately clear, 1 this is perfectly executed American death metal, and 2? Well, […]

German Progressive Metallers Sweeping Death is about to release their EP Tristesse on 9 September 2021. To get a taste, they have produced a music video for the song Alter The Rift. Tristesse represents the […]

The Ukrainian progressive metal four-piece Jinjer has well and truly backed up their previous success with their latest release, “Wallflowers”. Turning more towards the heavier side of metal, they have well and truly cemented their […]

Season Of Dreams are a Swedish based melodic metal band formed in 2018, releasing their debut album ‘My Shelter’ in 2020. The bands sophomore album ‘Heroes’ was released in 2021… …with Jean-Michael Volz (guitars, bass, […]