REVIEWS

We’re witnessing greatness as Allegaeon releases their 6th album, titled DAMNUM. Forming in 2007, Allegaeon has been a staple of the extreme metal scene and with their latest offering they’ve pulled out all the stops. […]

Swedish theatrical rock act Ghost are back with another slab of ritualistic, metal tinged rock songs that once again challenge the listener, especially those who fell under their early spells of Black Sabbath induced music. […]

D’OR is a hard rock band from Switzerland, whose debut album ‘Veni Vidi Ignis’ was released in 2022… …featuring a sound that the likes of Guns N’ Roses and Skid Row made famous at the […]

Theandric is a heavy metal band from the USA formed in 2006 releasing their debut E.P. ‘Up The Irons’ in 2011, featuring the band’s epic eighteen-minute hymn to Iron Maiden – a terrific tribute to […]

Freddy Krumins is a heavy metal vocalist, writer, and composer from the USA, releasing his new solo album ‘The Future’s Past’ in 2022. Best known to me, and probably many of you too, as the […]

The light breaks through the dense ancient forest canopy, its long journey settles upon a moss-covered headstone. Broken and smashed asunder its many parts lie amongst the decades of dead leaves and undergrowth that grow […]

Sanhedrin is a heavy metal band from the USA formed in 2015, and has released three albums to date – ‘A Funeral For The World’ (2017), ‘The Poisoner’ (2019), and 2022’s ‘Lights On’… …which features […]

Felskinn is a melodic heavy metal band from Switzerland founded in 2005 by vocalist Andy Portmann – the band releasing four albums – ‘Felskinn’ (2006), ‘Listen!’ (2007), ‘Mind Over Matter’ (2008), and 2022’s ‘Enter The […]

Sin Starlett is a heavy metal band from Switzerland formed in 2005, releasing their debut album ‘Call To The Punisher’ in 2008. The band have released three more albums – ‘Throat Attack’ (2012), ‘Digital Overload’ […]

You may as well turn the treble right up on your stereo because the deep grind of the dropped tuned, gut-crunching sludge metal beasts, CROWBAR, are coming at you with their 12th studio album, ‘Zero and Below’. […]

Slash and his team of Conspirators alongside Myles Kennedy are back with a brand new set of songs, a decade after their sucessful release of “Apocalyptic Love”. Aptly titled “4”, it’s an album that simply […]

One-man Chaotic death metal Act return with the long-awaited follow up to the Unseen Divinity  Demo from 2017. Hailing from QLD Celestial Extinction is such a cohesive effort that it is impossible to tell that […]

There are those that declare themselves evil and decree the summoning of the ancient ones and then there is Hexerei. You can literally feel the malevolence spew forth from the deep on this Finnish duo’s […]

In the history of modern metal there are but a few places that have produced such a large standard of high-quality music. San Francisco’s Bay Area is one of them. From the early 80s onwards […]

Finnish Dark Metal outfit Kuoleman Galleria (Gallery of Death) release their third album after five years, the result is an ambitious well thought offering that combines black metal influences with more modern rock sensibilities. It […]

Legendary Spanish act Blazemth releases their first full-length album after a series of EPS and split releases. The result is an album that not only honors the horned one but battle and darkness, a black […]

Hailing from Copenhagen, Denmark Throwe (From the term Suffocating Death) unleashes their debut album on an unsuspecting world mixing Metal with Hardcore and Black Metal!? It’s an odd combination that admittedly does take a little […]

Idle Ruin is a blackened death/thrash metal band from Australia formed in 2020, releasing their debut E.P. ‘Idle Ruin’ later the same year. A new single ‘Valley Inferno’ was released in 2022… …after the band’s […]

Introducing the recent release EP Wound, by Melbourne industrial metal band Knife. Knife is a two-piece comprising Mark Jenkins on vocals and James Salter essentially doing the rest. Wound was released January 10, 2022, and […]

Rizon is a melodic rock/metal band from Switzerland formed in 1997, releasing five albums – ‘Evolution’ (2005), ‘Sudden Life’ (2008), ‘Masquerade’ (2012), ‘Power Plant’ (2016), and ‘Prime Time’, released in 2022. Rizon‘s duel male and […]

Incrypt is a thrash metal band from Australia formed in 1999 releasing four albums – ‘Masterpiece’ (2010), ‘The Victim Is You’ (2014), ‘Eyes Upon This World’ (2017), and 2022’s ‘Thrashing Extinction’. Known for their blistering […]

Serious Black is a German-based melodic power metal band formed in 2013, releasing six albums – ‘As Daylight Breaks’ (2015), ‘Mirrorworld’ (2016), ‘Magic’ (2017), the acoustic album ‘First Light’ (2017), ‘Suite 226’ (2020), and ‘Vengeance […]

Rather than an album you listen to and enjoy objectively, Cult of Luna’s “The Long Road” is a spiritual journey, from which you can’t detach and assess based on objective criteria. And I was surprised […]

Timeless Rage is a symphonic power metal band from Germany formed in 2012, releasing their debut E.P. ‘Forecast’ the following year. Performing with bands such as Battle Beast, U.D.O, Axxis, and Bonfire, Timeless Rage began […]