Australian powerhouse The Neptune Power Federation presents with ‘My Precious One’ a new song, taken from the upcoming album ‘Le Demon De L’Amour’. The new album will be released on February 14th, 2022 via Cruz Del Sur and contains the following tracklist: Weeping on the MornMy Precious OneBaby You’re MineLoving You Is Killing MeStay with... Continue Reading →
Review IRON FATE ‘Crimson Messiah’
One year as Crypteria and since 2005 as Iron Fate, monikers that stand for remarkable power metal from Germany. Goslar in Lower Saxony is the home of a quintet that premiered in 2010 with an album called ‘Cast in Iron’. If one expected the sophomore album rather quickly might have been disappointed since it took... Continue Reading →
Review ATOMIC AGGRESSOR ‘Invoking the Primal Chaos’ – EP
And the year ends with ‚Invoking the Primal Chaos’. Now, hopefully not more and different than related to the new mini album from Chile’s death metal outfit Atomic Aggressor. The band, hailing from Santiago de Chile, has an inconstant vita that started in 1985, the founding date. Mainly demos and slit releases is what the... Continue Reading →
Review BEHEMOTH ‘In Absentia Dei’
It happens more and more that live albums are recorded live streams shows that find some new life through releases, published a few months after the digital event. This time Polish black metal icons Behemoth are the ones releasing a live album that features a streaming concert the band played in September 2020 at Abandoned... Continue Reading →
Review HEMELBESTORMER ‘Collide & Merge’
Hemelbestormer means ‘stormer of heaven’ and is the band name of a Belgium metal band that founded in 2012. The band premiered with ‘Portals’ in 2014 and released two additional longplayers to date. With having three records on their list of achievements, Hemelbestormer has finished work on ‘Collide & Merge’, the next step of the... Continue Reading →
Review MEMORY GARDEN ‘1349’
Founded in 1992, doom metal band Memory Garden didn’t lose any time and released first a demo and then an EP. The full-length premier followed a couple of years later. It was ‘Tides’ that hit the shelves in 1996 and four additional longplayers followed over time.‘Doomain’ was the latest record so far and eight years... Continue Reading →
HEAVEN SHALL BURN announce vinyl re-issue of ‘Deaf to Our Prayers’
15 years ago, German metalcore icons Heaven Shall Burn released with ‘Deaf to Our Prayers’ their fourth full-length longplayer. Such an anniversary is reason enough for the quintet to re-release this timeless classic as vinyl. Release date will be March 4th, 2022 and the album went through a remastering, done by Heaven Shall Burn guitarist... Continue Reading →
SORCERER released ‘Reverence’
Stockholms metal institution Sorcerer used the time to record four cover songs which let off the leash one by one. It all started in September 2021 with the legendary 'Gates of Babylon', originally from Rainbow, followed by 'When Death Calls' (Black Sabbath) and Saxon's 'Crusader'. The final cover is 'Waiting for Darkness' from Ozzy Osbourne... Continue Reading →
CRISIX and the metal kitchen
Barcelona-based thrash metal band Crisix recently released 'The Pizza EP' and obviously the guys enjoy food the same way as they value a harsh riff and powerful metal. In a time with long tours and road trips not being the first option, the Spanish metal outfit started to write a cook book called 'Speed Metal... Continue Reading →
Review FUNERAL ‘Praesentialis in Aeternum‘
If the name of a band is Funeral I don’t think that anybody expects happy sounds. In contrary. Funeral, hailing from Drammen, Norway, is into slower pace metal with a dark vibe that resonates in each of the songs of their newest delivery. Funeral started in early ‘90s and premiered with ‘Tragedies’ in 1995. In... Continue Reading →
BENEDICTION’s David Ingram announces new death metal band
Iconic Benediction frontman Dave Ingram announces an new metal band, Hellfrost And Fire. Inspired by the legendary Celtic Frost, Ingram and his new band (Rick "Dennis" DeMusis (g/b), Travis Ruvo (d)) recorded ten songs, being the tracklist of 'Fire, Frost and Hell', the debut album. Release date of the debut is scheduled for March 18th,... Continue Reading →
Review THE THREE TREMORS ‘Guardian of the Void’
"Ripper", "The Tyrant" and The Hell Destroyer", all three nicknames of excellent metal singers. Tim Owens, Harry Conklin and Sean Peck, these are the names of the guys that share the vocal duties and being the driving force behind The Three Tremors. The 2019 debut album was the first release from this powerful-voice trio and... Continue Reading →
Review NEKROMANT ‘Temple of Haal’
Some of you might know Nekromant as Serpent, the moniker the trio used between 2012 and 2016. The band released as Serpent two longplayers before transforming into Nekromat. Two additional records have been released of which one was the 2018 live album ‘The Nekromant Live’. With ‘Temple of Haal’ the next studio-album is waiting in... Continue Reading →
POLTERGEIST will release ‘The Demos’ in January
Poltergeist belong to the to the first wave of European thrash metal band. After a renaming process from Carrion to Poltergeist in 1986, V.O. Pulver and bandmates unleashed the ‘Poltergeist’ demo one year later. A second demo, ‘Writing on the Wall’, followed in 1988 and both tapes have been the springboard for the band to... Continue Reading →
Review SACRIFICE (Japan) ‘Total Steel’ – re-issue
Heavy metal and Japan, that is a good combination since decades. There are many European and North American bands that can count on their strong fanbase in the land of the rising sun. Several live albums have been recorded there for a reason, just thing about ‘Made in japan’ from deep Purple. Secondly many bands... Continue Reading →









