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Catechesis

Patristic

The best part about the band and the music, besides the black stains throughout it, is that the band gives you the illusion that they are anything goes…but that couldn’t be more wrong. Each deadly step is calculated, and performed with surgical precision. Their mashup of Death and Black metal is done with modern tendencies, even going some places that others refuse to explore, while they maintain the strong roots of Extreme Metal.

Inherited Tendencies for Self-Destruction

Embrional

Embrional has been around for a while. The band is from Poland, and belongs to […]

Affliction in Bloom

Keldrikojast

Soerd

“Keldrikojast,” while far from innovative or groundbreaking, is a solid debut for SOERD who already had a bit of a running start with their 2023 EP, “Mil laaned vaikivad.”

Big Trouble

Coffin Feeder

COFFIN FEEDER is indeed “Big Trouble”, as they are making me like another musical genre that I have been able to leave at the sidelines until now. But I do know that if I wish to admire a Deathcore band from now on, they have to come close or exceed the quality of COFFIN FEEDER. And that, my friends, is something a lot of the bands trying will not be able to do, because I feel that the 35 minutes of “Big Trouble” is at the top of the Deathcore game.

Sacrament of the Sick

Executionist

EXECUTIONIST has made sure that every song has a tempo you can headbang to without endangering yourself in a way that will result in your head distancing itself from your torso. This doesn’t mean they play slow, but it does mean that it never goes too fast.

Sinister Seduction

Krematorium

“Sinister Seduction” is not the heaviest Thrash Metal album you will ever encounter, but also not of one the lightest. Also, it might not be the most original album musically, the songs will still be able to enchant you in their own way. And that is what makes “Sinister Seduction” a pleasant album. Thank you KREMATORIUM.

Elegy From a Dying World

Obsidian Fall

It has to be said, for an album that OBSIDIAN FALL wrote, recorded, produced and released on their own accord, this isn’t bad at all. There is enough depth in the songs to keep it interesting.

Apex

W.E.T.

This is the fifth album from the super group W.E.T. Which is an acronym standing […]

Curling Serpents Under Stone

Onirik

Although the album paid homage to the NWOBHM, it has its own modern edges, and didn’t contain the madness we sometimes hear in the genre. Each move was calculated and detailed, and this was a good album to listen to.

Nature Morte

Matraque

Their brand of Doom is sparkled with psychedelica at times, and I believe I got a full vision of the album from five songs. The final result is that their sound is hopelessly dreadful, in every good sense of those words.

Skeleta

Ghost

The evolution of the band swings towards the Pop genre for sure on this album, but that is fine with me. It’s supposed to be about the music, not the imagery, nor the past. Take away the masks, the costumes, and everything you thought you knew about the band, and just weigh the music. No living soul can deny Papa’s penchant for towering vocal harmonies and massive hooks, and this album overflows with both. Bravo, I say, bravo.

Cinder

Lux Terminus

“Cinder” is an ascent—a journey through cascading waves of emotion, carried aloft by impeccable musicianship and a sparkling sense of undying hope. There’s a resilience to this album—a refusal to descend into despair. Even in its most subdued passages, there is always movement, always breath, always a soft promise: that dawn will come, that beauty still lingers, that hope is an eternal flame. For me, it delivers one of the most uplifting and compositionally rich musical experiences of the year.

Five

Wasted

These veterans show on this release that they still have a lot to offer to the Metal fans.

Black Respite of Oblivion

Toughness

A very good promising name in the Polish Death Metal scene.

The True Harmful Black

The Infernal Deceit

Wow, what a lovely Black/Death Metal/Blackened Death Metal release!

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 […]

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