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Moonshine

Tapeworm Electric

I actually like what TAPEWORM ELECTRIC is bringing to the table and that I am going to rate this album accordingly. I can only say that if you love your quality Heavy Rock with female vocals, you can’t really go wrong with the music that is available on “Moonshine”.

Hostile Wasteland (feat. Wolfpack)

Wolfbrigade

To narrow down how WOLFBRIGADE does sound, think Punk with some Thrash Metal influences, but more importantly, as if MOTÖRHEAD is playing pure Punk instead of their Rock ‘n’ Roll version. But what is even more impressive in my books is that although I’m not the world’s biggest Punk afficionado, I really am digging what I hear on “Hostile Wasteland”.

Kill to Live

Wolfbrigade

I like the fact that the Swedish real-world, brute-force, political Hardcore Punk band WOLFBRIGADE has recorded a live album in their own Wolfden Studios, which they named “Kill To Live”. Every song that has been recorded sounds strong, and for 27:33 minutes you have no other choice than to immerse yourself in the surroundings of WOLFBRIGADE and their real-world, brute-force, political Hardcore Punk.

Ages Of The Gods

Havamal

“Ages Of The Gods” is a symphonic melodic Death Metal album, driven by a strong orchestral component, which is a main contributor to the epic melodeath sound. The lead guitar solos are a standout feature of the album

Frequency Of Illusion

Flames

“Frequency Of Illusion” is a good mixture of Speed and Thrash Metal. The album has a lot of pace and it is well-balanced across and within the tracks

Get Out Of The Rain

This House We Built

Three years on from their critically acclaimed debut album, This House We Built finally release […]

Onkos

Binah

So I recently said reviewing Communion in Anguish , by Tithe was out of my […]

Creatures II

Creatures

Creatures formed in Curitiba in 2019, standing out in Brazil’s extreme metal–dominated scene by championing […]

White Fire

Raat

This was an excellent album. The deep, fierce aggression is tempered with enough atmospheric and melodic moments to keep it from making you go insane. When they rage, they rage with the fires of Hell, but when they pause, you can breathe with some comfort.

Carnage Inc.

The new self titled EP by thrash metal band from Mumbai India, Carnage Inc., comes out swinging […]

Apocryphal Verse

Aduanten

For a music aficionado who digests 600+ albums a year for the past 10+ years, and is always on the hunt for something new and unique, I can say that this is a sound that is on the fringe of where I see Metal headed in the future, and they are already charting the course. Deep within each layer, there are mysteries waiting to be discovered, and their intelligent approach to songwriting where they are able to control some of the chaos is noteworthy.

Alvorecer De Última Hora

Jletylishie

This is Black Metal at its most hasty, restless, and breathless, and an album that never stands still, never settles, never lets you fully catch up. The album’s real triumph is how it merges two emotional forces rarely balanced this well: wonder and urgency. The melodic passages make you look upward in awe, while the relentless pace pulls you forward, heart racing, as though you’re chasing a revelation you can almost grasp.

Awakening

Deteriorot

Deteriorot has been around since 1990 and is one of the pioneers of American death […]

Lullabies from Hell

Golden Serpent

In this review, I explore the themes and instrumentation presented in this album.

To Rise You Seek The End

TRYSTE

The album is a place where clean, heavenly tones seduce you into calm just before the music rips your head off. They build enormous, plush soundscapes and glassy, delayed guitar lines that bloom into a devotional warmth. Vocals sit perfectly in the mix as if they were another instrument in a cathedral of sound. Those clean timbres are addictive: shimmering, rounded, and they invite surrender. The album has melancholy and longing in the cleans, visceral rage and dread in the harshness. It’s a record for listeners who enjoy being soothed and then shaken awake. It nails that uneasy marriage that is seductive, punishing, and unforgettable.

Dominion of Ashes

Cemetery Moon

Although the band’s attention to the ferocity of Black Metal is noteworthy, many of the songs on the album blurred together too much. They have talent, and the cover art is excellent, but they need to work in more variation into the album, and perhaps take advantage of the wide genre boundaries these days.

Uncrossing the Keys

Wode

Overall, this was a solid album. The band presents power and might in their music, along with harrowing and aggressive tones, and just the right amount of despair.

“New God, New Masters”

Revocation

Revocation, “New God, New Masters” (2025) Metal Blades Records is an undeniable textbook framework of […]

Når Bjerge bliver til Støv

Arkæon

As a fan of dark metal, this four track collection is a hallmark in the […]

Signum

Hammerfilosofi

Overall, this was indeed a violently alive album, as well as a statement from the band that they are here to subvert you to their will. The intensity never lets up, and it sounds like they are unearthing Hell itself on the album.

Nothingman

Age of Ruin

Hair metal, thrasher, metal core, and all the beauty wrapped into one. Age of Ruin is setting the bar high for other bands trying to make a name of themselves.

Down in Flames

Glasgow Kiss

Glasgow Kiss, where have they been my entire life? Apparently writing Down In Flames for our listening pleasure!

In Absence of Light

All We Leave Behind

Doom Metal can be very exciting. This album was just average in the annals of the genre. Too many of its 11 songs sounded too close to one another, and that is my main issue with the album as a reviewer.

To Carry On

Morke

As far as “To Carry On” goes, a well-written, well-executed album. Recommended for any fan of Atmospheric or Melodic Black Metal.

Solitude

Nordicwinter

This was a solid album to listen to, combining the aggressiveness of Black Metal vocals with the sheer depression that can also be prevalent in the genre. After listening, I have this contemplative feeling that makes me want to leave my responsibilities behind for a while and really think some things through.

Endless Nights

Empire Drowns

Overall, the album has great balance…each instrument like the keys, guitars, bass, vocals, and drums work together in a synergy that is hard to find. This was a terrific album, expertly combining the genres of Doom, Death, and Melo-Death together to create a sound of anguish, pain, even terror at times, but all done with a melodic touch.

Communion in Anguish

Tithe

Coming from Portland , Oregon, which is a town several atmospheric, and very interesting bands […]

Red Hill

Murmur

Pain? Yes, you will feel its sharp bite. Anger? Yes, you will feel its fire raging inside of you. The three songs carried a lot of emotion along with them, and like adding salt to a wound, they can easily revive any latent feelings you have tried to push down and lock away. This was an excellent release, and I would love to hear more.

The Ship//The Sea

Beastwars

Hailing from Wellington , New Zealand ,”The Ship//The Sea” is the 5th release from BEASTWARS […]

Obstinacy: Sisyphean Dreams Unfolded

Fleshvessel

Right off the bat, you have to marvel at a composition like the four presented on this album. If nothing else, the band has vision. Twenty years ago, this kind of genre smashing didn’t even exist, but now we hear more and more. The only thing I struggle with is finding enough people out there who might appreciate this varied plate of Extreme Metal. Then again, I know they are out there. The album is more like taking a trip somewhere you have never been and not packing anything with you…you leave what happens from there up to a whim, or to fate, depending on what you believe.

Your Inland Empire

This album feels like a forgotten relic from the late ’80s that has been carefully excavated, polished, and reimagined with modern sensibilities. Vocals drift between icy detachment and aching melancholy, perfectly suited to the genre’s emotional palette. The songs carry that signature Darkwave introspection, but the Industrial edge gives them a bite that keeps the melancholic haze from ever feeling passive. Altogether, the album bridges synth-soaked memory and modern darkness. It’s retro, it’s current, it’s immersive, and it hits harder than you expect.

Unchained & Bloodstained

Killer Hearts

Hailing from Texas USA ,Killer Hearts are a leather clad electrifying rock n’ roll band […]

Sudden Impact

Redshark

What immediately becomes clear is that the band have opted to change their dimensions between Heavy Metal, Power Metal and Speed Metal by putting the emphasis on the latter of the three for “Sudden Impact”. It makes this album just a tad more intense, slightly more in your face and certainly unable to ignore when you are listening to it.

The Long Lasting Dusk

Will O' Dusk

I like what WILL O’ DUSK are doing on “The Long Lasting Dusk”. It’s good, it’s solid, it works, it fits.

Bludgeoning Simulations

Ghould

Experimental, Post Metal, Industrial…whatever you genre purists label this doesn’t matter. The album is a barren wasteland…a vast clearing of the trees in one of the northern most places on the earth. It’s so cold, there are no animals…nothing lives there…nothing even grows there. It’s like a void that if you dare to enter, you will join its dead.

Providence

Destruction Ritual

Destruction Ritual knows how to fill time with intense, long blasts of black metal atmosphere...

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Moonshine

Tapeworm Electric

Hostile Wasteland (feat. Wolfpack)

Wolfbrigade

Kill to Live

Wolfbrigade

Ages Of The Gods

Havamal

Frequency Of Illusion

Flames

Get Out Of The Rain

This House We Built

Onkos

Binah

Creatures II

Creatures

White Fire

Raat

Carnage Inc.

Carnage Inc.

Apocryphal Verse

Aduanten

Alvorecer De Última Hora

Jletylishie

Awakening

Deteriorot

Lullabies from Hell

Golden Serpent

To Rise You Seek The End

TRYSTE

Dominion of Ashes

Cemetery Moon

Uncrossing the Keys

Wode

“New God, New Masters”

Revocation

Når Bjerge bliver til Støv

Arkæon

Signum

Hammerfilosofi

Nothingman

Age of Ruin

Down in Flames

Glasgow Kiss

In Absence of Light

All We Leave Behind

To Carry On

Morke

Solitude

Nordicwinter

Endless Nights

Empire Drowns

Communion in Anguish

Tithe

Red Hill

Murmur

The Ship//The Sea

Beastwars

Obstinacy: Sisyphean Dreams Unfolded

Fleshvessel

Your Inland Empire

Your Inland Empire

Unchained & Bloodstained

Killer Hearts

Sudden Impact

Redshark

The Long Lasting Dusk

Will O' Dusk

Bludgeoning Simulations

Ghould

Providence

Destruction Ritual

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