Lava Flows is one of those encounters which grabs rigorously, cuts off all forms of escape and in turn plies you with intoxicating persuasion which leaves you woozy and desperate for more. The heavy weight groove fest is the debut… Read More ›
Rotting Christ
Stormcast – Frame of Mind
Whenever dark clouds crowd in on thoughts and emotions there is always a place for an understanding soundtrack, something Cyprus-based atmospheric black metallers Stormcast offer with their impressive debut album, Frame of Mind. The release is a tempest of oppressive… Read More ›
Chronosphere – Embracing Oblivion
2014 has already been flush with some impressive and more importantly thrilling thrash metal releases, some old school bred and others sculpting the new penchant for fusing thrash with death metal and other styles. Somewhere in between comes Embracing Oblivion,… Read More ›
Expanding the Extreme: an interview with Giannis K of Dark Vision
For over fifteen years Greek extreme metallers Dark Vision has earned themselves a strong reputation in the metal underground for their expansive death metal sounds. The recent release of their Ingrowth EP shows the band is stronger and more inventive… Read More ›
Nightfall: Cassiopeia
There can be very few who do not know of the Greek dark metal weavers Nightfall or be aware of their continuing legacy to metal in general let alone their chosen genre of creativity. From deeply impressive and… Read More ›
Dark Vision: Ingrowth
Greek extreme metallers Dark Vision has built a strong reputation in their homeland without truly finding a wider recognition worldwide since forming in 1996. Their new EP Ingrowth will not immediately put that right but with its impressive sounds could… Read More ›
Nepente: Suffering Is The Seed
The best word for Suffering Is The Seed, the new album from Columbian extreme metallers Nepente, is vicious. In fact it is a savage and sonically scurrilous violation, a torment of corrosive intensity and unbridled devastation. It is also a… Read More ›
Blynd: Punishment Unfolds
It seems extreme metal has saved its very best releases for the dying weeks of the year, the likes of Nidingr, Deus Otiosus, and Aeons each releasing colossal albums which are pushing limits, imagination, and most of all passions to… Read More ›
Dew-Scented – Icarus
In the 20-year anniversary of its formation, German thrash metal band Dew-Scented return with a new line-up and their ninth studio album Icarus. One of the established European heavyweights of the genre, the new release shows the band has lost… Read More ›
Interview with Bruno Fernandes of The Firstborn
After four years since their last album Portuguese metalers The Firstborn returned this month with one of the most challenging but deeply rewarding releases heard in a quite a while. With a depth and intensity to its sound and creativity… Read More ›
The RingMaster Review 