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Battlegrave is a two-man project birthed from the minds of Rohan Burtine and Clint Patzel. This Melbourne based project truly embodies the sound of thrash metal. After releasing their debut Ep To Hell with War […]

I once had a dream that there was a mass of people walking towards a giant machine that just processed them by the hundreds. And the people just blindly followed one another while one person, […]

Warkings have released their debut album Reborn and it’s absolutely a must-listen for power/battle metal fans across the globe. With power metal I find all too often the vocals can be a bit too operatic […]

Out of the depths of the freezing cold lands of Russia comes Instorm and their sophomore effort Taming the Chaos. From the menacing introduction, the album takes you on a ride around melody town, demonstrating […]

Obsidian Monolith continues their emotional onslaught with their 2019 release Manifest. After reviewing their EP last year, I couldn’t wait to see what these guys were going to come out with – and I’m not […]

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Carnal Forge, the co-creators of the Swedish Melo-Death movement, with In Flames and Soilwork, are back and in slamming form. Gun To Mouth Salvation is their first full-length studio album to be released since Testify […]

Allfather, the new album by the Danes in Vanir, is a terrific array of music pieces that pay homage to the ways of Vikings and Norse mythology; and let’s not forget drinking – lots of […]

I’ve noticed that many metal bands today are looking for a ‘grand’ or ‘epic’ sound in their music. Much of it is about the production value of the piece, but it has started to make […]

The role of metal has changed over time, but its tendency to explore the extremes of human emotions still remains. I’ve heard many bands play with the ‘light and dark’ of human emotions before, but […]

Funeral death/doom act Illimitable Dolor is coming in strong with their sophomore release Leaden Light from the metal-loving label Transcending Obscurity Records. Having not heard of these guys before, I thought I would try out […]

Swelling with emotional discord while destroying any musical boundaries we might have had is the line that Ewigkeit’s latest release Disclose treads. This release is nothing short of epically huge. An interesting blend of themes, […]

The EP release Echoes of Aberration by Summit is one of the best examples of metalcore I have seen come out of NT of Australia. Cut You Open, a favourite track of mine, is the […]

There has started to be a shift in the way melodic metal carries itself of late; a sort of Darwinian evolution of the genre that is permeating elements of groove and intensity only hinted at […]

My old school psyche was triggered with a nod to the NWOBHM (namely Iron Maiden) in some of the riffs of Convent Guilt’s release Diamond Cut Diamond, but ‘uneven’ is probably the best and most […]

There are some releases you listen to that give you a sense the musicians in the band aren’t concerned about rules. They’re happy to tread the line between genres and just make music that makes […]

There are bands out there that will break barriers of what is expected of a genre, and other bands that will work to perfect a genre that already exists – delving deeper into what made […]

Surgery are a death metal band formed in 2002 in Poprad, Slovakia. After working their asses off for years, they have produced their second full-length album Absorbing Roots. Now, as a reviewer, I try to […]

The Book of Ecclesiastes would have you believe there is nothing new under the sun, but the author of that book never heard OnO’s new release Cloaked Climax Concealed. When you have to start putting […]

While there will be robust discussion around genres of metal, with half of metal-heads sitting in the ‘it doesn’t matter’ camp and the other half claiming identity is important, I would like to weigh in […]

Meshing elements from other bands seem to be the way to go these days. Since most of what can be done has been done, To An End’s latest offering Redefine is a ballsy aptly named […]

Dawn of the Five Suns is the latest release from German band Kambrium, and let’s just say, it is epically grand. Most of the tracks are like a movie score, weaving, melodic and powerful. buy […]

As The Kingdom Drowns is the seventh studio album for Australian Technical Death Metal band Psycroptic and the follow up to 2015’s self-titled full-length release. The album opens in ferocious fashion with We Were The […]