This whole pandemic has taken its toll on musicians all over the world. Yet is has also given some a chance to release material they have been sitting on or wanted to write for...
With 'Hädanfärd', Night Crowned have delivered another strong album on which they've found the perfect blend between melody, aggression, technical prowess and with a nod to the Scandinavian metal heritage. ...
Max Cavelara‘s work since Sepultura has been major hit and miss with me, so when I found out he was doing something with his son, I can’t say I was particular excited, but holy...
July isn’t, in my humble opinion, the right time to release Black Metal. The long, sunny days and short warm nights see to it that my head and heart isn’t filled with dark thoughts....
What would happen if you mashed together Alestorm, Aether Realm and Gloryhammer? Then threw it all into space? No one has ever asked that question before – well, until Wizardthrone anyway. Wizardthrone is a...
When you are a fan of Dodecahedron (Tilburg, NL) the project of Michel Nienhuis and co-conspirators named Autarkh shouldn’t be unknown to you. Dodecahedron unfortunately is no more. However, out of the ashes Autarkh...
“You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”, so they say. That saying bears weight sometimes and often that can be a good thing when speaking about some of our favorite metal bands. However,...
With the world being a crazy place at the moment, somehow it feel barely two years ago since Vreid brought out their previous album Lifehunger. It took quite a while before I started to...
The mysticism of Egyptian mythology is brought to life in a furious modern way through Crescent, a blackened death metal band from Egypt that has been formed as far back as 1999, but is...