(9/10) The ones of you that doesn’t know Destruction yet (are there any?) better fasten your seatbelt before pressing the ‘Start-button and all the other, go wild with this album. German Metal pioneers Destruction belong, together with Kreator and Sodom, to the spearhead of German Thrash Metal. Starting in 1982 as Knight Of Demon a... Continue Reading →
WACKEN 2020: First bands announced
While the current Wacken Open Air is still ongoing, first bands have been announced for the 2020 edition. Legendary Mercyful Fate will be part of the festival as well as Judas Priest, Amon Amarth and many more.
CD review ENVENOMED ‘The Walking Shred’
(7/10) Australian Heavy Metal has a solid home base in Down Under. Bands like Mortal Sin paved the way for many (Thrash) Metal bands and it’s of course legendary AC/DC and Rose Tattoo that brought the fifth continent on everybody's Rock radar. Nowadays it’s the next generation, being in the starting blocks for their Metal... Continue Reading →
CD review STERLING SERPENT ‘Sterling Serpent’ – EP
(7/10) Sterling Serpent is a band with roots that go back to the year 2015. Members of King Dude, Bell Witch, Serpent and Terminal Fuzz Terror started the outfit that has with this elf-titled EP a first recording ready to be shipped to the record stores. The band, hailing from Seattle, Washington, recorded four tracks,... Continue Reading →
CD review CARNIFEX ‘World War X’
(8/10) Deathcore days at Nuclear Blast. One week after having released Thy Art Is Murder's newest album it's Carnifex' 'World War X' being next crushing Deathcore album that hits the shelfs. The Californian quintet proves with their newest longplayer that Deathcore is much more than solely noise. Album number seven lasers in again on brutal... Continue Reading →
CD review CRYSTAL BALL ‘2020’
(*/10) Usually Swiss clocks are appreciated for their preciseness. Having a glimpse on the title of the upcoming Crystal Ball album could give the impression of the Swiss guys being ahead of things, releasing a album entitled '2020' in 2019. A deep-dive into the meaning of the '2020' brings the true meaning to surface. Crystal... Continue Reading →
CD review BLACK INCOME ‘unSOUND’
(7/10) Danish rocker Black Income released a critically acclaimed debut album entitled ‘Noise Pollution’ back in 2016 and with having the album in the shelves the guys played a bigger amount of live shows, opening for acts like Bullet and Tigers Of Pan Tang. One year after having released the debut it was bass player... Continue Reading →
CD review NARNIA ‘From Darkness to Light
(8/10) Narnia is the brainchild of Christian Liljegren and Carl Johan Grimmark who met in 1993 and after having seen a common musical vision Narnia was founded. 'Awakening' was the debut of the band with a release date in 1998. The first era of Narnia ended in 2010 when the band official announced their end.... Continue Reading →
CD review THE OFFERING ‘HOME’
(8/10) The Offering is a fairly new player in the fields of Metal. The band, hailing from Boston, MA, started in 2015 and consists out of Steve Finn (d), Nishad George (g), Alex Richichi (v) and Spencer Metela (b), the latter joining the band last year. The Offering has so far an EP in the... Continue Reading →
CD review GRAHAM BONNET BAND ‘Live in Tokyo 2017’
(*/10) A few months ago Alcatrazz released a live album entitled 'Parole Denied - Tokyo 2017', featuring an eleven songs comprising setlist. The same night, Graham Bonnet, singer of Alcatrazz, played a solo show too, being the first half of the entire concert and since the recording equipment was in place anyhow, what's more logical... Continue Reading →
CD review WORMWOOD ‘Nattarvet’
(9/10) Wormwood is an outfit that started in 2014 as a Black'n'Roll band. The guys premiered in 2015 and became a big thing in the Sweidsh underground scene. 'Ghostlands: Wounds From a Bleeding Earth' was album number two and it's 24 months later that 'Nattarvet' starts to unveil its dark beauty. What differentiates Wormwood from... Continue Reading →
CD review V.A. ‘Live At Wacken 2018: 29 Years Louder Than Hell’
(*/10) The Wacken festival has a long tradition and it seem to become a tradition that a release with Wacken recordings creates some extra appetite right upfront the festival. This year it's 'Live At Wacken 2018: 29 Years Louder Than Hell' that looks back on the last years edition of the iconic Metal feast. Two... Continue Reading →
CD review MARTYR ‘Live in Japan’
(*/10) Martyr truly belongs to the pioneers when it comes to Dutch Heavy Metal. The band started in 1982, a time when Heavy Metal gained momentum and it was two albums the guys could add to the books. Matyr premiered with ‘For the Universe’ in 1985 and it was one year later that ‘Darkness at... Continue Reading →
CD review REDSCALE ‘Feed Them to the Lions’
(8/10) The latest hot summer seasons must have had an impact on bands, hailing from Germans capitol Berlin. If you listen to albums like 'Feed Them to the Lions' you could get the impression that the heat of the Kyuss-ian desert sound gets more and more a part of the German metropole. Redscale is a... Continue Reading →
CD review LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE ‘Bleeding the Stars’
(8/10) Chaos leads to creativity and it’s both being the driving force of Lacrimas Profundere, a band the never stood still. The guys started in 1993 with some Death Doom Metal before moving their sound towards Gothic. They weren’t the only band that followed such an approach, but they are a band that sticked to... Continue Reading →









