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Maldorör Disco

Master’s Hammer

This was an excellent listening experience for me. As a teenager in the 80’s, its lush electronic sound took me back to some of the music I enjoyed at that time, and keyboards are always a welcomed instrument for me. Here, you will find plenty, combined with gritty riffs and vocals, and the songs were downright catchy.

Con Man's Chronicles

The Skelters

This is Hard Rock at best, but it is the variety that will transport you back to the seventies in sound as well as atmosphere and feel. That can be a good thing nowadays, as it gives the whole listening experience a much more analogue and therefore honest approach. In that respect THE SKELTERS got everything just right.

Next Akin To Chaos

Sterbhaus

Musically you can place STERBHAUS as a Thrash/Death Metal band, and that is as accurate as you can get. And if you ask me, for a trio they are able to make a lot of sensible noise, as that is what has impressed me most about “Next Akin To Chaos”.

Stardust

Speedclaw

Even though “Stardust” will never be my favourite album of all time, it is one that I will treasure and enjoy when I hear it passing me by. It just confirms to me that SPEEDCLAW have done good in choosing this as their musical direction.

Eternal

Return To Darkness

What RETURN TO DARKNESS does is be themselves, to play the kind of music they like, without trying to emulate or copy their peers in any way or form. And what they have produced has been brought together on “Eternal”. Bloody good stuff, if you ask me.

Celestial Clear Moonlit

Storming

The information in the bio is indeed what you will find on the album. The hypnotic gaze of many of the songs does create a shimmering effect, but the production is so raw it takes away from my enjoyment. It does have peaks of intrigue, but four of the five songs also have a similar sound that is hard to distinguish.

The Graves and Ghosts of Yore

Deogen

Overall, this was a solid album. Black Metal can really push the limits of aggressiveness and rage, but sometimes you need pauses to them, and the album does a nice job of balancing both.

The Endchanter

Araphel

Overall, this was a solid listen for me. It wasn’t necessarily anything new, or even out of the box, but the band presented some somber melodies along with a heaping of darkness and aggression, and that balance created an enjoyable listening experience.

Seitsemän soihdun valossa

Victimarum

Overall, this was an album that just burned from start to finish, and “melancholy misery” is an apt word for the collection of songs. A little more diversity could have taken the album further, but I admire their commitment to their sound.

Fire & Ice (single)

Rozario

“Fire & Ice” is the first single/video from the highly anticipated new album from the hard rocking Norwegian band ROZARIO

With Guts And Glory

Centinex

I have to say that after listening to “With Guts And Glory” I was disappointed that there weren’t any more songs on the album. I feel that with less than half an hour of new discoveries the audience could feel they deserved a few more tunes.

Silicon Tea

Evil Scarecrow

Did you know that submarines can have feelings too? Well, if you listen to opener “Nuclear Fallout Machine Sentience” the band will set you straight on that one

Stronghold

Human Fortress

Musically there is no way around the way HUMAN FORTRESS plays their music. this is Epic, this is Power Metal, and these guys are very well-equipped to bend what they make into a shape that fits them down to a T. There isn’t a song that doesn’t fit, there is no note that has been put wrong, there are no mistakes or mishaps on “Stronghold”.

Severance

Jet Jaguar

While the songs are clearly the most important part of the process when they write their music, they also never forget to have fun while doing so. That makes that especially guitarist Ariyuki Saddler gets the chance to demonstrate his techniques.

The Purest Ending

Sainte Obyana Du Froid

One of the best parts of the album, besides the themes matching the music very well, is that despite the length of the songs you don’t notice them passing by for so long. Indeed, the album does a nice job of pulling in the listener into its cold, winter sound, and immersing you in its imagery. Although it’s a barren and freezing landscape, it’s also something that I now want to experience for myself.

Where All of Worth Comes to Wither

Malignant Aura

The title of the album is very fitting to the songs. Besides a healthy amount of dissonance and aggression, the songs dive deep into the earth, seeking refuge in a cold, wet cave where no sunlight even dares to enter.

Sila Nuna

Sedna

This is an album that is not about a specific genre…it’s about a world of possibilities. The experience is very personal, such that the listener can decide for themselves how it makes them feel. For me, it was a reminder of some of the mistakes I made in life, and in my innate ability to move past them. The darkness is there to serve you in whichever way you choose…good or bad.

Time Under Tension

Karate Steve

Boston Massachusetts melodic death metal/hardcore outfit, Karate Steve, dropped their third album Time Under Tension on October 24th, 2025. […]

Skogskult

A lot of notable extreme metal, Doom and otherwise, comes out of Umeå. SKOGSKULT keeps up the tradition with their debut album.

House of the Rising Smoke

Goatfather

A smoking pillar of fuzz-infused and psych-inspired tunage.

Nuit Noire

Arbre-Dieu

Within the wide genre boundaries of Black Metal these days, there is most definitely a place for “Nuit Noire” by ARBRE-DIEU. I didn’t find the album as raw as advertised…instead, I found intelligent songwriting, with carefully crafted passages to keep your sense ever stimulated, and a sense of the macabre. There was also an air of mystery to the album…a feeling that there is more out there if you take the time to search.

Insatiable

Flagelo

a LOT of noise, and a LOT of waiting for the noise to actually DO something.

What Once Was

Fimbul Winter

“What Once Was” is dark, epic, and melancholic. It offers excellent guitar work, crushing basslines, and chilling melodies, all kept together very well by versatile vocals

Taetra Philosophia

Abysmal Grief

Creepy at times, this is a Doom Metal album for old school fans of the genre. Although I don’t know it, I get the feeling that the band has a cult following, because of how long they have been around, and their sound hasn’t changed much. For me, it was just a mediocre listening experience that just didn’t offer any surprises.

Backbone

Ronnie Romero

Over the past decade Ronnie Romero has worked with the likes of Yngwie Malmsteen,Michael Schenker, […]

Vertigo

Shiraz Lane

Hailing from Vantaa, Finland, Shiraz Lane started their musical journey in 2011. Their vision of […]

Forgotten Reveries

DarkTribe

Clean vocals? Boo-hoo. This is METAL.

Black Sites in Lower Chambers

Wild Beyond

Black Sites in Lower Chambers is the newest EP from Philadelphia Pennsylvania black/death metal band Wild Beyond. This […]

Ethereal Horizons

Blut Aus Nord

Maybe the album was hyped too much, because although it was excellent, it didn’t deliver enough experimental or Progressive elements for me. They were there, but nearly always took a back seat to the ferocious and naked aggression on the album. It’s clear that Vindsval is talented, and his vision is unwavering, but I would not have minded some more experimentation.

Mar Da Deriva

Vauruvã

If the album makes you look for answers, it did its job properly. But, there are no answers to be found. Instead, the deep-pocket sound deals with possibilities that almost seem endless, laying out a myriad of paths one could follow and allowing each person to make that decision for themselves.

Midnight Blitz (single)

Tailgunner

When heavy metal icon K K Downing produces your latest album and loudly proclaims “They personify everything that is heavy metal” the music world takes notice.

Something Borrowed…Something New

Greystone Canyon

The name of the album is quite fitting. “Something Borrowed…Something New” relates to the fact that half of the songs are covers and the other half new songs by the band themselves. GREYSTONE CANYON has released two albums before this one, and the 2024 one called “Iron & Oak” got a perfect rating from my colleague “Metal Mark” Garcia. He rightfully wrote that these Aussie have a knack to sound like they belong in the seventies. And that they also really know how to play and make songs sound good.

Embrace The Awakening

Mezzrow

“Embrace The Awakening” has been produced at a very good and transparent level, which allows you to hear very instrument in detail. It also has been given enough punch to make sure that all the songs that MEZZROW has put on this album has the right amount of energy, excitement and power.

Chama

Soulfly

Gone is the jumping up and down from the early years, only to be substituted by a much more Industrial Metal vibe, whilst keeping a little bit of Groove Metal vibe, but also a little bit of Thrash Metal atmosphere in there. It makes for interesting listening, as to me this sounds like Max Cavalera is trying to recreate the effect that NAILBOMB had some thirty years ago.

You Are Safe From God Here

The Acacia Strain

“You Are Safe From God Here” is over 38 minutes of panzer-like tank-worthy deafening and explosively deadly Deathcore. Because if one thing becomes clear, it is that the band have only gotten Heavier, a lot more menacing and almost lethal in their approach to how they write and play songs. There is only one way to go; to be as destructive and devastating as is humanly possible.

DARK III

Civil Service

Without vocals to easily guide your way, you are going to have to dig in deeper and feel the music they present. Although much of the album reveled in tones of grey and even black at times, the closing message is a plea to break down as many barriers as possible on your way through this journey we call life. I haven’t heard any album that moved me on an emotional level as this one did, nor one where the song titles were so perfectly matched with the music.

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Maldorör Disco

Master’s Hammer

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Next Akin To Chaos

Sterbhaus

Stardust

Speedclaw

Eternal

Return To Darkness

Celestial Clear Moonlit

Storming

The Graves and Ghosts of Yore

Deogen

The Endchanter

Araphel

Seitsemän soihdun valossa

Victimarum

Fire & Ice (single)

Rozario

With Guts And Glory

Centinex

Silicon Tea

Evil Scarecrow

Stronghold

Human Fortress

Severance

Jet Jaguar

The Purest Ending

Sainte Obyana Du Froid

Where All of Worth Comes to Wither

Malignant Aura

Sila Nuna

Sedna

Time Under Tension

Karate Steve

Skogskult

Skogskult

House of the Rising Smoke

Goatfather

Nuit Noire

Arbre-Dieu

Insatiable

Flagelo

What Once Was

Fimbul Winter

Taetra Philosophia

Abysmal Grief

Backbone

Ronnie Romero

Vertigo

Shiraz Lane

Forgotten Reveries

DarkTribe

Black Sites in Lower Chambers

Wild Beyond

Ethereal Horizons

Blut Aus Nord

Mar Da Deriva

Vauruvã

Midnight Blitz (single)

Tailgunner

Something Borrowed…Something New

Greystone Canyon

Embrace The Awakening

Mezzrow

Chama

Soulfly

You Are Safe From God Here

The Acacia Strain

DARK III

Civil Service

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