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Trials of Failure

Open Kasket

Taste this mix between Old School Death Metal and Hardcore, and you'll have a surprise.

Grotesque Bliss

If you're thinking that Old School Doom Death Metal is dead, just take a bit on this release.

The Beginning of the End

Fleshspoil

Wow, what a great melodic Blackened Death Metal release!

Symbolic

As Dramatic Homage

A very good reissue from this Brazlian Avant-Garde act.

Fragments of Despair

Black Anthem

Finally, a full-length from this talented band. The album Fragments of Despair will be released […]

Archees Legeones

Lloth

Overall, this was a solid album that intermixed a few different genres with the band’s signature style, which for me was an old school Celtic style that reminded me of the great battles of the Scotts and the British. It’s also a fitting tribute to the former founder, Tristessa, may he rest in peace.

Bluetgraf

Ghörnt

This was a straight up burner from start to finish, and while I typically don’t especially like homogenous albums, the level of rage and intensity on “Bluetgraf” is noteworthy. It you are hankering for a good ass-whooping, give it a spin.

From Nothing

Benthos

The band’s musicianship is off the charts. They end at a 10, and BETHOS takes it to an 11. They are nothing short of wizards navigating more meter shifts and transitions then you can count as well. As I mentioned above, the album isn’t as accessible until several listens, even to a seasoned Progressive music fan. They make you work for it, and as the saying goes, working hard makes it worth it in the end. For me, “From Nothing” is a musician’s Progressive Metal album, and one of the best musical feats of the year so far.

Extinct

Malphas

Overall, this was a solidly pleasing album that combined traditional Black Metal chaos with some thrashy riffs, and even some surprises. It is pure enough for those FMOBM fans, and also adventurous for those who seek a little more.

Catharsis Till Dawn

Taär

In today’s Black Metal scene, more and more bands venture outside of the early genre boundaries, and newer fans find that pleasing. There are also genre purists, who prefer that the band’s stick within the fences, and that is the album that we have here. They don’t lack talent, and it was a solid release, but it just didn’t offer much distance or distinguish with their peers.

Justice

Absolva

The quality of the songs on “Justice” are unmistakable, and the band brings them to us in a very good fashion.

Chronolysis

Black Rabbit

BLACK RABBIT is not as clean or organised as the Bay Area or Teutonic Thrash bands, but also not as disorganised as bands like early VENOM or MIDNIGHT. They hover somewhere in between, and by mixing Death and Thrash Metal in the way they do, it makes it all sound bloody impressive.

The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here

Ba’al

The album is an unrelenting tug-of-war between opposing forces, an exercise in extremity that explores contrast as a permanent state rather than something to be resolved. It’s about the eternal push and pull of human emotion, artistic purpose, and existential uncertainty. It’s an album where extremes aren’t a means to an end — they are the end. In that refusal to resolve, it leaves you with something far more unsettling: the truth that some wars aren’t meant to be won, only endured. Can you endure “The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here?”

Tyrants Of Wrath

Phantom

According to the information that came with the music PHANTOM are a Speed/Thrash Metal band from Guadalajara, Mexico, formed in 2021 as a project just for fun.

Psychodrome

Venator

The songs themselves are varying from okay up and until rather good. You don’t expect to hear anything new or life changing, and you won’t, but you also won’t be disappointed by the quality level of the songs that VENATOR are ladling upon our Metal plate.

Let There Be Dark

Tower

The word powerhouse is a word thrown out way too much nowadays for a singer but Sarabeth Linden is definitely the utter definition of a powerhouse. She has some pipes like I haven't heard in such a long time fronting a band that has some promise and loads of potential.

Silent Weapons For A Quiet War

Unbowed

From the city of Dortmund in Germany, this multi-talented band started off in late 2023, […]

Bored Machine

Rückwater

RÜCKWATER are a stoner rock trio band from TAMPERE, FINLAND who have been together since […]

Death Becomes Her

Frantic Amber

“Death Becomes Her” continues FRANTIC AMBER's journey of darkness, where devastating guitar riffs and blast-beats go hand in hand with doom-laden, epic, and melancholic melodies, featuring even symphonic Death Metal elements

Artifex

Ancient Bards

ANCIENT BARDS deliver bombastic symphonic Power Metal. “Artifex” ranges from traditional Power Metal, melodic Metal, symphonic Metal, to even symphonic Death Metal at times

The Monolithic Cult of Death

Deamonolith

From the Depths of Poland comes an experimental group of Deathgrind that synergized elements of progressive and melodic death through complex time signatures to create a truly chaotic and brutal album.

Walk the Shadows

Lord Vigo

“Walk The Shadows” is an interesting artistic departure for LORD VIGO. I’m sure it will have its fair share of detractors but for those who are flexible enough, they may find it actually succeeds.

Circus of Doom, Live in Helsinki 2023

Battle Beast

“Circus of Doom, Live in Helsinki 2023” is not only a great album to listen to but an incredible performance to watch. For new fans, a great introduction. For existing fans, a reminder of why you fell in love with them in the first place.

Adrift

Marea

In the end, three songs just weren’t enough to get to know the band as best as I had hoped. The three on the album are a study in contrasts, and I have the feeling there is a lot more about the band that remains a mystery. I will earmark them to a full-length soon to really delve into their music.

Viva Rock N Roll

Deraps

Deraps are are two piece band with members Jacob Deraps and Josh Gallagher. Jacob was […]

Anake

Khôra

The best part about the album is how the band presents traditional Black Metal elements in a completely modern way. There are clean vocals, symphony, even electronica, and it’s the intriguing way they combine them that keeps the listener on their toes. This album is carefully crafted, nearly flawlessly executed, and exudes confidence in every sense of that word.

The Essence of Suffering

Growing Horns

The best part of the album for me is those weighted, beefy bass notes, and the times they segue into some psychedelic elements. The bottom line however is that they leaned on open notes too much, and what resulted was an album that tried very hard to get off the ground, but never quite made it.

Raw Traxs B Sides & Bootlegs

Kickin Valentina

High octane unapologetic rock n' roll

Man Under Erasure

Feversea

This was a fascinating album with a lot of layers that the listener can borrow into, and it takes more than one listen to be able to uncover them all. Sometimes, its mysteries are easily solved, while other times, you have to work for them. Take a walk off the path that is familiar to you and delve into “Man Under Erasure.” Its dark mysteries lie within the songs.

The Profane Era

Aeonyzhar

What emerges is not a compromise between two extremes, but a fully realized third form: music that is both violent and regal, savage yet exquisitely composed. In the end, the listener is left not with catharsis, but with reverence. This is the sound of a band in full command of its dual nature, crafting music that walks the line between ruin and rapture, and invites you to kneel at both altars.

Merok

Alutka

The album is a fragile bridge between what was and what now is. It’s a moment when time feels suspended, and the rhythms of ordinary life are intentionally disrupted to make space for sorrow, reflection, and memory. To mourn is not just to suffer; it's to affirm the significance of what’s been lost. The duration of mourning may vary, but its essence remains the same: it marks the soul's attempt to realign itself in a world permanently altered. When the mourning period ends, symbolically, it may represent a kind of return, to a life that now carries the imprint of grief, woven into the fabric of ongoing existence.

Spectral Tyranny

Dead Chasm

Overall, this was a decent album but it was hard to get a gauge based on just three songs. All of the elements one might expect from the genre are there, it’s just that the band didn’t do much stretching out from the norm. Purity is one thing, but pushing yourself is another. I would recommend that the band engage in a little experimentation next time to help put some distance between them and others.

Crucifixion of Orchids

Acceptance

On “Crucifixion of Orchids,” ACCEPTANCE paints a picture of a lonely and desolate world, whose only stimulation comes from an occasional visit from a mysterious man who tortures you for a while and then disappears again, leaving your wounds time to heal, only to return again, and repeat the cycle over and over again.

Wolves

André Drage Group

ANDRÉ DRAGE GROUP will give you beautifully sculpted Progressive songs with a slight but definite Jazz undertone. The sound is sedate, the production is as clear and transparent as possible, and the musicianship of this quartet is unmistakable.

Standard Deviation

Sons of Ra

Let me issue a word of warning; if you are not one to think outside the box, to always want a straight line in music as well as life, SONS OF RA is not the band for you. But if you are like me, and you liked the Jazzy Death Metal albums of bands like PESTILENCE and CYNIC, you could always give “Standard Deviation” a listen.

Eigengrau

Amimia

The unnamed war between hope and despair is fought across every measure, every slow-burning crescendo, every fading chord — and despair wins. It is a slow, inevitable tightening of the chest, leaving the listener stranded in the rubble of what might’ve been. It is the slow collapse of the scaffolding you didn’t know was holding you up. It is the sound of hope staying just long enough to remind you of what you're about to lose. When the silence finally arrives, it doesn’t feel peaceful. It feels earned.

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Open Kasket

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Black Anthem

Archees Legeones

Lloth

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Ghörnt

From Nothing

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Catharsis Till Dawn

Taär

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Absolva

Chronolysis

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The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here

Ba’al

Tyrants Of Wrath

Phantom

Psychodrome

Venator

Let There Be Dark

Tower

Silent Weapons For A Quiet War

Unbowed

Bored Machine

Rückwater

Death Becomes Her

Frantic Amber

Artifex

Ancient Bards

The Monolithic Cult of Death

Deamonolith

Walk the Shadows

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Circus of Doom, Live in Helsinki 2023

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Adrift

Marea

Viva Rock N Roll

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Anake

Khôra

The Essence of Suffering

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Raw Traxs B Sides & Bootlegs

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Man Under Erasure

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Merok

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