I think we all thought that when there’s an album on the Byzantine Empire it’ll be Turisas that releases it. Yet the Finns have all but disappeared, and instead we got one from the...
The last couple of years have been challenging for bands. Releasing a record would have been hard, as touring was impossible. This does mean that there is a lot of new music coming our...
Pioneering melodeath metal band Arch Enemy is back again – and they’re hitting harder than ever, despite the logistic obstacles they had to surmount to record their latest album, “Deceivers.,” which marks the band’s...
There have been many years since we started counting and 2022 sure is one of them. Luckily, most of the recent years have involved a lot of metal releases and now we’re past...
The British gents from Conjurer released their first full length album, “Mire,” in 2018 and after their success with it they cannot be erased from the metal scene. With their unique mixture of (post)...
There are many people who love Satan in metal – most of us jokingly, for some it represents rebellion to the mainstream, the authority, and of course, religion. But no one has managed to...
I have fond memories when it comes to Lord Belial. When listening a feeling of nostalgia enthralls me. A feeling which brings me back to the heydays of black metal when both brutal and...
I’ll be the first guy to admit, I’ve never been a sworn fan of the known Baltimore fellas, Misery Index. Yes, I did like their face bashing style of death metal/grindcore that always...
Extinction. To many, the word itself imposes thoughts of large lizards that roamed the Earth many years ago and have been long-gone from this planet. Today, because of the way we as humans treat...
Saor has, since the release of “Aura” (2014), “Roots” (2013) and the all the subsequent releases, set the standard I adhere to with respect to Scottish atmospheric black metal. The band, by Andy Marshall...