Hell is where the heart is: Party.San Metal Open Air 2026 Afterwards, everyone who’d been there looked a bit dazed. That’s the thing I keep coming back to about Sunken‘s set in the...
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Preview: Party San Open Air 2026
We’ve lost count how many times we’ve been to Party San Metal Open Air—but who’s counting anyway? All we know is: it’s home, and we’re coming back, Welcome to Hell!! Last year was madness in...
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Nunslaughter – Satanic Chaos Legions
Nunslaughter is one of those bands that seems to have been around forever and, at the same time, never really changed itself to appease anyone. Basically, what you heard from these Americans in the...
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Horion – Doom (EP)
Ever heard of Horion? No? Me neither, since they are now offering their debut EP this band still flies under the radar. Hopefully, this will change because these French lads seem to have plenty...
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Avdagata – “The Apocalyptic Aeon”
Sweden has never struggled to produce great extreme metal, but every so often a band turns up that doesn’t just join the lineage, it sharpens it. Avdagata’s second full-length, “The Apocalyptic Aeon”, is exactly...
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The Year of Evolution and Reckoning: Andy’s Top 15 of 2025
2025 has been a year of reckoning as much as a year of discovery. Legacy genres have had to decide whether they’re museum pieces or living, breathing organisms. Some chose to polish themselves into...
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Yearlist 2025 – Omer
2025 was a year of hardships—and some smaller wins. It wasn’t marked by grand success, but by endurance, persistence, and learning how to recognize progress wherever it appeared. I hope that for you, the...
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BINAH – ÓNKOS
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity”. A quote by Norwegian painter Edward Munch, taken from the latest otherworldly progressive death metal odyssey by BINAH,...
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Phobocosm – Gateway
Every so often a record lands on your desk that makes you ask a very simple question: “how have I never heard this band before?” Phobocosm’s fourth album, “Gateway,” was one of those moments...
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Depravity – Bestial Possession
Australian death metal has been quietly producing some of the most consistent brutality of the last decade, and Depravity have been at the centre of that surge. After the excellent “Evil Upheaval” (2018) and...
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