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Addicted to Power

Nefarious

Thrash Metal is the main ingredient that NEFARIOUS uses to mark their music. but it is not all they use. Nope, you will also get regular Heavy Metal mixed in, but in a way that the Thrash Metal title used will stay upright through it all.

Wild Dogs Unchained

The Rods

Their eleventh album “Wild Dogs Unchained” hit the streets on 5 September 2025, just one year after the latest one, which is quite fast in today’s market. And again, there is enough to enjoy. In the 52:38 minutes that THE RODS fire their brand of Heavy metal at you there is no choice. You either love what they do, or it just doesn’t rock your boat.

Vattenkrafternas Spel

Vintersorg

What Vintersorg always had a good knack for is writing good songs that really fit what he is trying to say. And I can tell you that on “Vattenkrafternas Spel” he has been able to do that once again, giving VINERSORG another strong piece of slab with which they hopefully be able to conquer even more souls than they have until now.

Lente Viviente

Little King

Overall, this band showcased a sophisticated sense of melodies that were not overly complicated, but easy to assimilate as well. Not being familiar with them, I am surprised to learn of their longevity, and you wouldn’t know this was their eight album, because the drive and fire in them is very much alive in their music.

Close Your Eyes

Liv Sin

Liv Sin is a female fronted Swedish metal band who were formed in 2016 by […]

Ruler Of The Wolves

Hunger

A new name rises from the underground Hunger who hail from Seville in Spain. Featuring […]

Sundrung

Nexion

Overall, this album was an absolute terror of an offering. From the first notes, through the last, they painted a picture of the entire world burning and people with it. Some were burned to death, others were reduced to ash. Through it all, their screams are what will stay with you through the end of your days.

Undending Confluence

Kamra

Overall, this was a devastatingly devious album that took full advantage of all the things that Black Metal can offer. At its core, it was evil, but unlike the void, it was fully alive. The harrowing feeling it gave me may have turned my hair white.

Cosmocrator

KHNVN

And using influences from the past, this act created a great Death Metal release.

Acts of Blood

Fermento

These veterans are still worthy of being heard, and this excellent release is a Death/Black Metal 'muts have' item.

Doomed

Defacement

If you're want to understand what means to be an Avant-garde Death/Black Metal band, you must to hear to this release!

March of the Cadavers (40 Years of Death Metal from the Grave)

Deceased

The Death Metal Zombies are celebrating their birthday, but the gift is yours in this release!!!!

Hell Inside

Cordyceps

A great 'out-of-the-box' Brutal Death Metal release!

Bruxist

This Australian trio unleashes its furious mix between D-Beat and Death Metal in a personal and great way!

Loathe for Life

Voidlurker

Through just four songs, this album was memorable for me, and I found it exactly as described…dirty, no filthy, black, and it pulls no punches. Sometimes, I tend to find the lack of diversity as a weakness on the album, but here, I revel in it. It’s just the kind of ass-whooping I was in need of today.

The Aquarius Shift

Kaptain Kollnot

Michigan’s Kaptain Kollnot returns with a fourth independent release The Aquarius Shift, an ambitious 4 […]

The Devil’s Bridge

LVTHN

Besides the artwork, which is fucking awesome by the way, the album has a lot to offer fans of Black Metal. It’s an intense, dark journey into the dark recesses of your mind…to the areas you often keep locked away, and for good reason. Once they are visited, they are unlocked, and will haunt you in your dreams for eternity. Torture is their name.

Last Standing Man

Animal Rage

Let me start by saying that ANIMAL RAGE have a lot of courage in how they portray their music. For example, how many bands would be able to put a very much folklore song like “Animals In The Sky” on a record. It might not be Metal, but to my ears it is beautiful.

Metalithic

Degrave

I like what I am hearing, even though I had to take my time to get used to how the voices are used on “Metalithic”. I feel that DEGRAVE is a good addition to what is already a massive Thrash Metal community.

Üdv A Világomban

Heartkiller

I have to conclude that musically HEARTKILLER have their ducks in a row. And even though you aren’t able to understand one word that is being sung, this does sound good. You don’t have to worry about bad pronunciation or dictation. Instead, you just get to enjoy the atmosphere and character that the voices used and instruments played are expelling through your speakers.

Too Dangerous

Wild Rose

Wild Rose have been delivering great AOR/Melodic rock since the band began back in 2004 […]

Unreachable Mountain

Sír

Overall, this wasn’t a bad album per se, it just never really got off the ground. Doom can be quite exciting, if done carefully. This album was just middle of the road for me.

Wearisome Guardians

Dwelling Below

Overall, this was a dreadfully dissonant and hopeless affair, and what it lacked in diversity, it made up for in torture. By the end, you can feel you soul twisted into something that barely looks human. If you dare, take the plunge, but be warned…you will emerge something that you are not.

Queen Of Crows

Temtris

“Queen Of Crows” offers powerful guitar riffs, great lead guitar solos, a good mixture between heaviness and melodic parts as well as between traditional and modern Heavy Metal elements

Stormrage

Alterium

“Stormrage” delivers traditional Power Metal elements combined with modern orchestral arrangements

Axioms

Wucan

WUCAN takes some twists and turns with “Axioms” that might throw some listeners off, but the band stays true to their vision and refuses to stand still.

Emellan Träden

Jord

With “Emellan Träden,” JORD maintains the momentum and trajectory they established with their 2023 “Tundra.” This might be their best to date.

Atomicult

Slomatics

You gotta love a band whose name exactly describes what they sound like. “Atomicult” is another sledgehammer to the solar plexus from the heaviest band in Belfast.

Malicious Acropolis Unveiled

Perishing

This wasn’t a bad album by any stretch of the imagination, it just failed to launch from the pad it was grounded on. It relied too much on past formulas and didn’t really offer anything new to the genre. I would encourage the band to take more chances next time.

Immortal

Dream Legacy

Dream Legacy are a rock band from Stuttgart who are influenced by the 80’s and […]

Ritual of Split Tongues

Drofnosura

This was an album that will wear down the listener, even those with a great constitution, to the point where the burden on your back grow so large, it crushes you under its weight.

Higabana

Sundrowned

This is an album that is crushing and breathes freely at the same time…a difficult feat for a bad to accomplish. The songs create this sort of ache that you can’t get to…and itch that can’t be scratched. They keep the listener suspended between two worlds…the world of darkness and pain, and the world of light and hope.

Fast Lane

Alpha Destroyer

Alpha Destroyer is a new supergroup featuring of Martin Sweet (Crash Diet),Kelly Lemieux of Buckcherry […]

Navigate

Traversus

Sometimes you like to listen something that isn’t going top blow your brains out, or that will have you on edge all of the time. Then you just want something more light-hearted, but still sounding good. Well, I found something that just fits that bill with TRAVERSUS.

Perverseverance

Zubzero

I can’t help but express my desire to be able to listen to a whole full-length album of good music of this quality. ZUBZERO have surpassed anything they have done in the past and should be ready to go out into the world and collect the praise that they deserve.

Years Of Chaos

Theriac

What surprises me more than anything is that with what THERIAC has laid down on tape and given to the Thrash Metal world I am rather confused as to why the band never got a record deal during those years that they were active. The quality of the songs is more than adequate, the way they play their Thrash Metal is eclectic, or if you will, chaotic.

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Addicted to Power

Nefarious

Wild Dogs Unchained

The Rods

Vattenkrafternas Spel

Vintersorg

Lente Viviente

Little King

Close Your Eyes

Liv Sin

Ruler Of The Wolves

Hunger

Sundrung

Nexion

Undending Confluence

Kamra

Cosmocrator

KHNVN

Acts of Blood

Fermento

Doomed

Defacement

March of the Cadavers (40 Years of Death Metal from the Grave)

Deceased

Hell Inside

Cordyceps

Bruxist

Bruxist

Loathe for Life

Voidlurker

The Aquarius Shift

Kaptain Kollnot

The Devil’s Bridge

LVTHN

Last Standing Man

Animal Rage

Metalithic

Degrave

Üdv A Világomban

Heartkiller

Too Dangerous

Wild Rose

Unreachable Mountain

Sír

Wearisome Guardians

Dwelling Below

Queen Of Crows

Temtris

Stormrage

Alterium

Axioms

Wucan

Emellan Träden

Jord

Atomicult

Slomatics

Malicious Acropolis Unveiled

Perishing

Immortal

Dream Legacy

Ritual of Split Tongues

Drofnosura

Higabana

Sundrowned

Fast Lane

Alpha Destroyer

Navigate

Traversus

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Zubzero

Years Of Chaos

Theriac

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