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Hellwig and Hjelvik should not be mixed up. While the first have been present in German volkmusic for decades, it is Hjelvik who interprets Folk Music in a much different way. But step by step. Erlend Hjelvik was front man of Kvelertak for many years before he left the band in 2018 to start something... Continue Reading →
Milford, Massachusetts is the homebase of a trio that debuted in 2019 with an album called ‘The Grand Descent’ – Fuming Mouth. The guys started their metal adventure in 2013 and after a couple of demos and singles, it was Triple-B Records that released the band’s first album. The record and the positive reception created... Continue Reading →
Two releases from My Dying Bride in one year is a rare thing. 2020 with all its weirdness, is such a year and after having unleashed the doom monster ‘The Ghost of Orion’ in March, the year ends with an EP named ‘Macabre Cabaret’. Being a perfect fit into the dark season of autumn and... Continue Reading →
Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons is the band of Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell who started with his sons Todd, Tyla and Dane a generation-bridging rock'n'roll powerhouse in 2016. A first EP came out the same year, followed by the full-length debut called 'The Age Of Absurdity'. Together with frontman Neil Starr, the band went... Continue Reading →
Liverpool-based riff surgeons Carcass recently announced with ‘Despicable’ a new EP which is out in the stores on October 30st. After having released their latest studio album ‘Surgical Steel’ in 2013, the four-track featuring release is a next sign of life from the death metal / grindcore veterans. In the lead up to a new... Continue Reading →
Snail-pace and giant power can go together very well. Doom metal experts Pallbearer furnish evidence for this fusionwith delivering extremely good heavy metal. Three years after ‘Heartless’ broke through the surface of metal, the quartet delivers with their newest output an eight songs featuring longplayer that reflects Pallbearer with 100% but shows a few deviations.... Continue Reading →
Out of left-field comes a new EP from Death Angel. Today, the California-based thrash metal veterans unveil a new release entitled 'Under Pressure'. Name-giver for the EP is a cover version of the Queen/David Bowie classic 'Under Pressure'. The thrash metal heroes release an excellent interpretation of this highlight in rock, showing that there is... Continue Reading →
Pause, break or hiatus, all just words that might describe the status of Death Metal veterans Benediction over the past years. What’s a fact though is, that the band released with ‘Killing Music’ their so far latest studio album in 2008 and now it's time for new stuff. These kind of 'return-' records always feed... Continue Reading →
‘Manifest’, the term, stands for strong aims and ambitions, announced publically. ‘Manifest’ is also the title of Amaranthe’s new album that will available from October 2nd and having given the longplayer such a strong title raises the question of what the manifest is about. I can’t finally answer this question, but the album is certainly... Continue Reading →
Accept will release their 16th studio album on January 15th, 2021 via Nuclear Blast. The title will be 'Too Mean to Die' and with 'The Undertaker' a first songs has been revealed. Here is the link to the song: https://youtu.be/DQy6npwdwsY
Canada-based Metal force Katakylsm release their new longplayer 'Unconquered' as we speak (read). It's their 14th longplayer in the bands long history, a story that started nearly 30 years ago in Montreal, Quebec. 'Unconquered', a well-chosen title for the world we are living in in right now, has an approach of brutality beating filigree. Kataklysm's... Continue Reading →
The Northmen return with a new album called 'Utgard', three years after 'E' was shipped from Norway to the rest of the world. 'Utgard', the outerworld, has its roots in Nordic mythology. There is with Midgard the area of humans and there is Asgard, where the Gods are at home. Utgard is beyond the two,... Continue Reading →
Norwegian death metallers Cadaver announce a new longplayer a few month after returning with the 'D.G.A.F.' EP. Release date is November 27th and the record comes through Nuclear Blast. Anders Odden comments, "I met Dirk Verbeuren during the 70000 Tons Of Metal festival in 2014. He was sitting in for Frost in SATYRICON and we played 2... Continue Reading →
Latest activities at My Dying Bride led to a next EP the band announce for November 20th this year. The band raise the curtain for 'Macabre Cabaret', a new EP that also includes 'A Secret Kiss'. Singer Aaron Stainthorpe states:“'Macabre Cabaret' delves into the shadow empire of dark love and the consequences of unchecked sexuality. The deep... Continue Reading →
Good things will find you, regardless of time. In a way that’s valid for Heathen’s new longplayer ‘Empire of the Blind’ too. The band premiered in 1987 with the stellar ‘Breaking the Silence’ debut in 1987 and after the sophomore smasher ‘Victims of Deception’s has intensified the great impression, radio silence took over. Silence was... Continue Reading →
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