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It may have been three long years since WOLVSERPENT's watershed first LP ‘Blood Seed' saw the cruel light of day, but the Boise, Idaho duo have been hard at work on its successor. They've just completed work on their sophomore release (and Relapse Records debut), a four song 80 minute opus...
Trailblazing BLUT AUS NORD is ready to transmit a deadly new virus, injecting the exposed vein with a potent cocktail of dizzying virulence and urban decay. ‘What Once Was…' constitutes an epitaph for the past; a headstone for the present; and a funeral of the future. With a cheeky sidestep -...
Beautiful Deformity captures the essence of what it means to be an outsider. Since their inception over a decade ago, the GazettE have found themselves being somewhat of an anomaly separated from regular bands and musicians. Their singles have continually ranked in the top ten in Japan, but their...
The time is nigh for "Liber III", the third chapter in BLUT AUS NORD's open-ended, existential "What Once Was…" odyssey. Although clearly analogous to the band's core body of work, this series of works subsists in a parallel plane, presenting the messenger in a more stripped-down and organic state,...
Cronian is a progressive/avant-garde metal band from Norway and Sweden founded in 2004 by Øystein Brun and Andreas Hedlund, also known as Vintersorg. The band's music is heavily symphonic and programmed, combining melodic singing and harsh vocals, all aiming to create a very cold and cinematic...
With their eighth full frontal assault ‘Kapitulation 2013', ENDSTILLE are armed and dangerous again. There is true grit and dirt in their nine original tracks as well as in the cover version of the SODOM classic "Blasphemer" featuring Grave Violator on guitar. ‘Kapitulation 2013' has everything you...
Ophidian Wheel is the third full-length album by the Greek death metal band Septic Flesh originally released in 1997. Review "Greek symphonic death metal band Septic Flesh formed in 1990. Led by Sortiris Vayenas (guitar), Spiros Antoniou (bass and vocals), and Christos Antoniou (guitars), the band...
Originally released in 2002, I Blooi og Anda (meaning ‘In Blood and Spirit') is the long-lost debut album from Iceland's SOLSTAFIR. A far cry from the refined and expressive post-rock of 2011's ‘Svartir Sandar', I Blooi og Anda is unique and primitive black metal (in the vein of early ENSLAVED)....
ENDSTILLE unleash a relentless assault of its signature, high-impact black metal in the form of its new album ‘Kapitulation 2013'. The long-running German metal powerhouse give no quarter, as guitars cut like chainsaws, drums blast relentlessly, and vocals spew torrents of black bile thick with...
Ophidian Wheel', the third proper full-length from the Greek dark metal masters SEPTICFLESH, marks a critical turning point in the band's career. On this album, SEPTICFLESH further expanded their musical vocabulary, and added female soprano vocalist Natalie Rassoulis. ‘Ophidian Wheel' sees the band...
Monolithe I is bitter, depressive, soul-crushing, heart-rending and beautiful at the same time, it imprisons you in a world of gentle grief and sorrow, where you lie bleeding willingly. Every single instrument taking part in the world of Monolithe I sounds stunning and unerring, with every member...
Twilight of the Gods has arrived to claim its place in the hallowed hall of the Heavy Metal elite! The band, a legitimate super group featuring Alan Averill (PRIMORDIAL), Nick Barker (ex-CRADLE OF FILTH, ex-DIMMU BORGIR, ex-TESTAMENT, ex-EXODUS), Rune Eriksen (AURA NOIR, ex-AVA INFERI, ex-MAYHEM),...
Money is power. This is truth and the theme of Vulture Industries' twisted new album, The Tower88. The Norwegians' new full-length explores dark musical vistas and lyrics within a unique mixture of progressive, experimental, extreme and even foreboding symphonic elements. With a wealth of...
Avichi is the sole vision of black metal multi-instrumentalist Andrew Markuszewski (aka Aamonael), who was an initial founding member of popular and notorious U. S. black metal act Nachtmystium, a band in which Markuszewski has made several appearances in through Nachtmystium's existence....
Benighted return with Carnivore Sublime, their best and most vicious album-to-date. A blistering display of modern extreme metal, ‘Carnivore Sublime' is nothing short of a full-scale assault. With a relentless vocal onslaught, bulldozer-heavy riffs that swarm the listener, and close-to-inhuman...
Over four years in the making, Kindly Bent to Free Us is a new apex in the evolution of progressive rock visionaries Cynic. The album's eight tracks are rich, vibrant, and evocative, and the mark of a band that are masters of their craft. As "True Hallucination Speak", "The Lion's Roar", and the...
A Fallen Temple, the fourth full-length in the long-running career of Greek metal luminaries Septicflesh, occupied a unique space in the band's history upon its original release in ‘98. The album featured re-recordings from their savage debut LP 'Temple of the Lost Race' interspersed amongst some...
Eastern Frontier in Flames is the definitive collection of the long out-of-print and sought-after Drudkh EP's and split releases. Eastern Frontier… combines 2007's ‘Anti-Urban' EP and the Master's Hammer and Sacrilegium covers on 2010's ‘Slavonic Chronicles' with the recent half of their vinyl-only...
Merging elements of classic DM bands such as Deicide, Morbid Angel and Suffocation with the more refined aggression of bands like Origin, Psycroptic and Decapitated, The Kennedy Veil features within their ranks Wientjes alongside guitarist KC Childers (ex-Forktung), drummer Gabe Seeber (Alterbeast,...
Chicago's Murmur has reemerged an altogether different beast than the one that spawned 2010's morose `Mainlining the Lugubrious'. On their new album Murmur the band, led by guitarist/vocalist Matthias Vogels, craft music as distinct and progressive as anything to ever come from the US heavy-rock...