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 UNANIMATED ‘Victory in Blood’
In a world that is full of animations it is bands like Unanimated that reflects the oldschool spirit of heavy metal. The Stockholm-based outfit started in the end of the ‘80s and premiered with ‘In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead’ in 1993. A sophomore album followed before the band went on a long hiatus... Continue Reading →
Review GENOCIDE PACT ‘Genocide Pact’
Genocide Pact began in 2013 and released a well-received debut album titled 'Forged Through Domination'. The album paved the way to a deal with Relapse Records, through which the sophomore album was released. Three years later it is the self-titled third album that once again puts all the brutality of death metal into 33 minutes.... Continue Reading →
Review LOCK UP ‘The Dregs of Hades’
If Lock Up is a supergroup, I don’t know. What I do know is that this outfit is a collective of death metal and grindcore greats that firm under the moniker of Lock Up. It was in 1998 when Shane Embury, Nicholas Baker and Jesse Pintado started this sonic wreckingball. Embury and Baker have been... Continue Reading →
PARADISE LOST will release ‘The Lost And The Painless’ end of November
Paradise Lost is a well-sounding name when it comes to dark gothic metal. The band went through different phases. The quintet has excellent longplayers in their discography. The latest records as well as the ‘Icon’ and ‘Draconian Times’ are timeless releases that helped to define a whole genre. There are two longplayers that paved the... Continue Reading →
Review PATHOLOGY ‘The Everlasting Plague’
‘The Everlasting Plague’, an album title that fits so perfectly when thinking about these crazy pandemic times. That was also the thinking of Pathology when working on their eleventh album. Inspired by a song title from their 2012 album ‘The Time of Great Purification’, the band transferred the idea into the here and now. Pathology’s... Continue Reading →
Review THE LURKING FEAR ‘Death, Madness, Horror, Decay’
‘Death, Madness, Horror, Decay’, such an album title doesn’t announce the happy and if the first title is called ‘Abyssal Slime’ things are very apparent. Here we are standing in front of a hellish portal with twelve chapter of lunatic death metal. Hellish sounds start-off the opener ‘Abyssal Slime’ and you can almost feel how... Continue Reading →
Review SWALLOW THE SUN ‘Moonflowers’
I guess that Jyvaskyla is one of the most important cities in Finland when it comes to rock and metal. More than just a handful of bands call the city their home and one of the is Swallow The Sun. The Finnish sextet premiered in the early days of the new century with an album... Continue Reading →
Review SIJJIN ‘Sumerian Promises’
Here comes an exciting debut album that reaches us from Berlin, Germany. Sijjin started two years ago and kicking-off a new band right before a pandemic might challenging. If so, it can’t be experienced while listening to the debut ‘Sumerian Promises’, a savage blend of blackened death-/thrash metal. The Basque/German collaboration starts with ‘Daemon Blessex’... Continue Reading →
Review DR. DEATH ‘Reincarnation’
Siegen, Germany is the homebase of death metal powerhouse Dr. Death, a band that is started in the early ‘90s. After having had released two longplayers the band disbanded and what seemed to be a final decision faces a revision these days. After more than two decades the death metal enthusiasts are back with an... Continue Reading →
Review OPHIS ‘Spew Forth Odium’
The first time I heard of Ophis was in July this year and I not just heard of Ophis, I heard Ophis. The band played a 30 minutes gig at 'Revolt! goes Planten Un Blomen, Hamburg – July 16th, 2021' and they rocked the foundations of the music pavilion. I think that if the quartet would... Continue Reading →
Review MASSACRE ‘Resurgence’
Line-up stability isn’t something Massacre is famous for. The band went through so many adjustments when it comes to bandmembers being involved that counting and listing is useless. What is much more important is that the death metal veterans return with a new album. Also due to the mentioned line-up changes, Massacre wasn’t spoiling fans... Continue Reading →
Review AEON ‘God Ends Here’
It took a while for Swedish death metal powerhouse Aeon to release a new album. Some might not even remember anymore when the last record hit the shelves. It was in 2012 when the band released with ‘Aeons Black’ their forth studio album and until then, the guys followed a rather consistent two-years release pattern.... Continue Reading →
Review BLOOD RED THRONE ‘Imperial Congregation’
When you think of metal from Norway, you automatically think of black metal and you think of Oslo and Bergen, the epicenters of hard Norwegian music. But for many years a metal band from Kristiansand has also been around - Blood Red Throne. Founded in the last millennium (1998), the band released their debut album... Continue Reading →
Review CREEPING DEATH ‘The Edge of Existence’ – EP
‘The Edge of Existence’ is the new EP of Creeping Death which connects the beginning of the band with the here and now. Six songs are what this release offers and three of them are well known by fans of the death metal force. ‘The Edge of Existence’ starts with three new songs with title... Continue Reading →








