'The Thule Grimoires' is the new album from Aachen's death/black metal outfit The Ruins Of Beverast. In tradition with the previous albums, five in total, the new longplayer is also not a burst of joyfulness but a gloomy delight. The dark adventure of The Ruins Of Beverast has its beginning in 2003 and after a... Continue Reading →
CD review URFAUST ‘Teufelsgeist’
Although band name and title of the album are German, metal fans have a chance to improve their Dutch with Urfaust's new album 'Teufelsgeist', at least when it comes to song titles. Urfaust hail from The Netherlands and calls Asten in North Brabant their hometown. It was VRDRBR and IX who started the band in... Continue Reading →
CD review THE SPIRIT CABINET ‘ Bloodlines’
Already the bandname is unusal and also the sound of 'Bloodlines' isn't mainstream either. Dutch metallers The Spirit Cabinet combine traditional Heavy Metal with Doom Metal, not to forget an underlaying psychedelic vibe that resonates with each of the six songs on the new album 'Bloodlines'. Snake McRuffkin, Johnny Hällström, Erich Vilsmeier and Cromwell Fleedwood... Continue Reading →
CD review HAXANDRAOK ‘Ki Si Kil Ud Da Kar Ra’
Usually it's the font type that turns reading of some band names to a mission impossible. Here it's different. Haxandraok in itself is a moniker that doesn't roll off the tongue easily. And the album title makes things even more challenging, also for the author of a review. Haxandraok is a duo. Saevus H. Aldra... 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 →
KNOEST released ‘Dag’
Knoest is a trio hailing from Gelderland in The Netherlands. The trio released on June 14th their new album 'Dag', a record that features four songs reflecting one day. 'De Ochtend' (the morning), De Middag (noon), 'De Avond' (the evening) and 'De Nacht' (the night). As you can see with song titles, that album is... Continue Reading →
CD review SLÆGT ‘Black Bombs’ – 7″
(8/10) 'Black Bombs' is an in between release from Danish metal outfit Slægt. After having released the critically acclaimed 'The Wheel' album it's this two-tracks single release that offers more songs taken from the recording session. The title track is a blackened metal anthem that sounds extremely well. Heavy rolling riffs, hoarse vocals and a... Continue Reading →
CD review SINMARA ‘Hvísl Stjarnanna’
(9/10) The fact that there‘s a lot of great music coming from Island isn‘t something new. Bands like Solstafir and others are ambassadors of Icelandic metal and here comes another one - Sinmara. The quintet from the North worked on their sophomore album that‘s now in the starting blocks. ‚Hvísl Stjarnanna‘ offers six new songs,... Continue Reading →
CD review OUR SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON US ‘Melting the Ice of the Hearts of Men’
(8/10) Salzburg in Austria isn't solely the city of Mozart's birth. The city in the Alpes also has a vivid metal scene with the Rockhouse venue being a kind of centerpiece. In this context, some guys followed their heart and started a band, which they named Our Survival Depends On Us (OSDOU). As you can... Continue Reading →
CD review CHAPEL OF DISEASE ‘…and as We Have Seen the Storm, We Have Embraced the Eye’
(9/10) Cologne-based Chapel Of Disease took three years for working on their third album ‘…and as We Have Seen the Storm, We Have Embraced the Eye’. If there would be an award for the longest album title, the Germans would be for sure a nominee and they would have a big chance of becoming the... Continue Reading →