Formed in 1984 under the name Torment, Swedish metallers Mefisto is noted along with Obscurity, as being the first Swedish extreme bands to surge through the opening made by Bathory. It was a band which quickly drew a loyal local… Read More ›
Bathory
Rusty Pacemaker – Ruins
The first listen of Ruins, the new album from Austrian project Rusty Pacemaker, definitely caught ears and thoughts by surprise but laid the seeds to an increasing understanding and appetite for the artist and release’s particular uniqueness. It has grown… Read More ›
Iron riffs and heavy passions: Introducing Wölfrider Interview
Hailing from Wrocław, Polish heavy metal band Wölfrider drew outside attention to match that at home with the release earlier this year of their self-titled debut EP via Goetic Records. Packed with four tracks which charge ears with tsunami like… Read More ›
Raw blood and ceremonies: talking Antropomorphia with Ferry Damen.
The presence of Dutch death metallers AntropomorphiA comes in two parts, a successful period between 1990 and 1999 and second starting in 2009 when the band came back to life after a decade hiatus. Its return has led to acclaim… Read More ›
Strength through adversity: Interview with Zach Simmons of Goatwhore
Goatwhore is one of those propositions which triggers extra sparks of enthusiasm and anticipation when you hear of a new unleashing from the New Orleans based band, and their new album Constricting Rage of the Merciless was certainly no… Read More ›
King of Asgard – Karg
With their new album our introduction to King of Asgard, expectations of Karg were bred from the influence and suggestion of others. The band’s third album follows the widely acclaimed debut Fi’mbulvintr of 2010 and the similarly well-received …to North… Read More ›
Architect Of Seth – The Persistence Of Scars
The Persistence Of Scars is an album which leaves you bruised and disorientated, mentally exhausted and at times bewildered, but mostly the debut album from French Progressive death metallers Architect Of Seth, leaves you transfixed and aggressively keen for its… Read More ›
Valdrin – Beyond the Forest
There are two sides to Beyond the Forest, the debut album from US black metallers Valdrin; one a flowing landscape of poetic imagination basking in colossal emotive melodies and enveloping atmospheres and the other a pestilential savaging infesting senses and… Read More ›
Scourge – Hate Metal
Driving imagination and emotions into the darkest pestilential depths of hell and extreme metal, Brazilian death metallers Scourge unleash their new merciless and ravenous incitement in the venomous shape of Hate Metal. Eight tracks of unbridled filth clad hostility and… Read More ›
Toxic Holocaust – Chemistry of Consciousness
Eagerly on the heels of the must have From the Ashes of Nuclear Destruction album, a career spanning retrospective covering Toxic Holocaust rarities from the past decade, as well as The Yellowgoat Sessions from the excellent solo project release from… Read More ›
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