It took a while for Swedish metal warriors Portrait to unchain their newest album ‘At One with None’. It’s the fifth album from the quartet and it is a next blast, a next stellar chapter the guys added to the books. Four years after ‘Burn the World’ hit the shelves it’s the new album that... Continue Reading →
Review SPIRT ADRIFT ‘Forged Your Future’ – EP
Spirit Adrift, hailing from Phoenix, Arizona started in 2015 with a debut album that hit the shelves one year later. Being young and motivated means that the guys released to date four full-length longplayers with the latest one being entitled ‘Enlightened in Eternity’. Spirit Adrift is the brainchild of Nate Garrett who teamed up with... Continue Reading →
TROUBLE’s ‘One for the Road / Unplugged’ will be available in October
Already planned for a longer time is a re-issue of ‘One for the Road / Unplugged’. The release is part of Hammerheart Records’ series of bringing classics back to the record stores. Since a few days, this re-release is much more loaded with emotions and importance since legendary Trouble-frontman Eric Wagner lost the battle against... Continue Reading →
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY announce ‘Doom Crew Inc.’
Zakk Wylde and the Black Label Society announce with 'Doom Crew Inc.' a new album with a release scheduled for November 26th, 2021. The album comes via Spinefarm and carries twelve songs, summed up in a tracklist that looks like this: Set You FreeDestroy & ConquerYou Made Me Want to LiveForever and a DayEnd of... Continue Reading →
Review TRANSPORT LEAGUE ‘Kaiserschnitt’
Swedish heavy rockers Transport League have their new album ready to go. The longplayer is entitled ‘Kaiserschnitt’ and if it took some doing, we don’t know. A sure thing though is the fact that recording an album these days isn’t an easy undertaking and it needs an extra effort to make such a longplayer happen.... Continue Reading →
Review SWALLOW THE SUN ’20 Years of Gloom, Beauty and Despair – Live in Helsinki’
Jyväskylä, Finland isn’t a city that you reach by coincident. 270 kilometers North of Helsinki it is nature that surrounds the town, endless forests that unveil their beauty in every season of the year. Besides that, Jyväskylä is also know for a vital rock and metal scene with bands like Swallow The Sun belonging the... Continue Reading →
Review MOURN THE LIGHT ‘Suffer, The We’re Gone’
'Suffer, Then We're Gone' is the title of Mourn The Light's debut album. Mourn The Light is a band from Connecticut, US. It was in 2017 when the quintet started their metal adventure, and a first EP has been revealed one year later. This first release, together with a few singles, brought the band to... Continue Reading →
Review DARKTHRONE ‘Eternal Hails’
In a time when the only certainty is uncertainty you're looking for consistency and Darkthrone provides it with their new album 'Eternal Hails'. The sound of Darkthrone. It allows the duo to release longplayers with a unique sound that is puristic, anarchic and pure doom. 'Eternal Hails' is the title of the new longplayer that... Continue Reading →
Review GRIEF COLLECTOR ‘En Delirium’
Grief Collector is a band name that is certainly known by doom metal insiders. This can have various reasons, but the two most plausible ones are that one listened already to 'From Dissension to Avowal', the EP that was released in 2019. And/or you know frontman Rob Lowe from his time with bands like Candlemass,... Continue Reading →
SWALLOW THE SUN announce a live album
Live albums are booming these days and this time it is Finnish doom metallers Swallow The Sun who bring a bit of live atmosphere into our lockdown life. '20 Years of Gloom, Beauty and Despair - Live in Helsinki' is the title of the first ever live album, coming from the Jyväsykla-based doom band. "Finally... Continue Reading →
Review CROSS VAULT ‘As Strangers We Depart’
Cross Vault started their metallic undertaking in 2013 and came up with a full-length debut rather quickly. ‘Spectres of Revocable Loss’ was published in 2014, followed by a next strike called ‘The All Consuming’. With having convinced fans of doom metal about their music, the band needed a bit of extra time to work on... Continue Reading →
Review CIRITH UNGOL ‘Half Past Human’ – EP
One of the good things, 2020 provided, was some extra time that allowed us to do things that usually have been pushed forward to nowhere in time or never seemed to be the first choice of activities. What goes for individuals has been also the case for bands. Ventura, California-based Cirith Ungol made good use... Continue Reading →
Review HANGING GARDEN ‘Skeleton Lake’
Hanging Garden started to grow since 2004. The Finnish band unchained the debut album ‘Inherit the Eden’ in 2007 and since then spreads the bittersweet temptation of melancholy. After having built a solid discography during all the years it is the new album ‘Skeleton Lake’ that’s waiting in the starting blocks. Hanging Garden has a... Continue Reading →
Review CANDLEMASS ‘Green Valley Live’
Also Swedish doom metal veterans Candlemass, as everybody else, couldn't play shows during 2021 and after a certain resistance to live stream shows, more and more band took the opportunity to stay connected with fans through such a digital event. Bands and fans have been a bit wary but step by step, and due to... Continue Reading →
BLACK SABBATH and the Super Deluxe Edition of ‘Sabotage’
A Super Deluxe Edition of Black Sabbath's sixth album 'Sabotage' will be released on June 4th through BMG. The remastered original recordings and complete live recording from a show in 1975 will be part of this package that will come in various formats. The albums are provided with detailed liner notes that tell the story... Continue Reading →









