Ah folk metal, is there a greater joy to be had? Nothing but beer, parties and just having an ol’ fashioned good time. Korpiklaani have been a staple of the folk metal scene for over 2 decades, and new album Jylhä looks to keep the festivities to schedule. Will we […]
Plagueborne deliver their debut album A Blueprint for Annihilation. Slamming death metal with flying laser sharks? Sounds like a recipe for some disgusting down tuned filth. Released out of Rising Nemesis Records, German slammers Plagueborne – who started life as Five Dollar Crackbitch before disbanding, give us 43 minutes of […]
German metal legends Accept dish out their 16th studio album Too Mean to Die. Lead guitarist Wolf Hoffmann is now the only remaining founding member, following the departure of bassist Peter Baltes in late 2018. Will this dampen any of the impact on this release? No chance. You don’t need […]
Thrashened death metal, deathened thrash metal, thrashy death metal? I’m not sure the best way to describe Brazil’s Nervosa. But new album Perpetual Chaos does indeed contain the aforementioned death and thrash metal concoction. The result? An old school triumph. It’s odd to talk about a Brazilian metal band that […]
You know I often wonder to myself, “how can anyone dislike fantasy power metal?” Yes the cheese factor is higher than a family platter at the annual mouse of the year convention. But it just brings such epic joy. New release Viribus Unitis from Austria’s Dragony is a prime example […]
Horror punk power couple Anders and Davallia Manga release their new album Songs of Unspeakable Terror. Creatures of the night come take your place amongst the living. Mortal beings beware. Retro horror punk is the name of the game here from Bloody Hammers. With the return of the Swedish buzzsaw […]
So here we come to the first review of 2021. In a particularly sharp cold spell here in the UK it is fitting that we start with an album called Crypt Of Ice. 2021 was supposed to be the start of a resurgence after the – to put it mildly […]
If we were to loosely assign the Big 4 of German power metal as being Accept, Halloween, Blind Guardian and Powerwolf (please @ me with your angry rebuttals), then Iron Savior would firmly sit as one of the bands next in line. Skycrest is the 12th album in their long […]
There is something about the sound of a cranked Boss HM-2 that warms the cracked edges of my darkened soul. Like a cosy blanket on a cold winters day. If the blanket was a bag of knives. And by winters day I mean the cold embrace of hell. But warming […]
Pick up your metal mixing bowl. Combine 3 parts deathcore, 2 parts djent and 1 part 8 bit video game music. Bake it in hell fire for 47 minutes and 2 seconds and you have Black Heart, the sixth studio album from Massachusetts’ Within The Ruins. I often find at […]
