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The Unending

Hanging Garden

This album is a breathtaking meditation on the beauty of sadness, where every note, every melody, and every whispered lyric feels like a fragile bloom growing from the cracks of despair. It is an album about the way sadness colors every beautiful thing in life, making it all the more precious. It is not just an expression of sorrow—it is a tribute to everything that makes it worth feeling.

Lyksalver

Shagor

By the time the final notes fade, the album does not leave the listener in despair—it leaves them hardened, standing in the wreckage of the storm, still breathing, still unbowed. This is not an album of submission but of struggle. It is proof that within agony, within rage, within absolute torture, there is still the power to choose—either to be broken or to rise.

Haragma II

Exterior Palnet

This music was maddening, and the longer you listen to it, the more it entangles you into its vast web. The highly sophisticated web was designed by a spider that is as cunning as she is astute. Once you are entangled, there is no escape, and the tortuous music plays until your last breath.

Game of Faces

Dynazty

Like DRAGONFORCE, the band has a shit ton of talent. Unlike them however, they don’t push their musicianship as much as their songwriting. They are a well-oiled machine that fires on all cylinders in every song, and they never hold anything back. This was an outstanding album from a band that refuses to sit back and coast through their new release.

Vol. II

Aske

And the Brazilian Death/Black killers are back with a great release!

Outer Space Outtakes

The OddEven

A very good release of Alternative Metal. Listen!

Requiescit in Pace Frater Noster

The Cross

Another battlering ram from Brazilian Harbingers of Doom Metal.

Suffering with a Smile

Rohan

A good first coming from this Death Metal band.

Black Plasma Armour

Membaris

The dark essence of Black metal can be clearly heard on the work of this German quartet.

Second Dawn

King Zog

A might Old School Doom Metal blow is given by these Australians!

Set It Free

Enbound

Wow, some new ideas for Power Metal can be heard on this album.

Legions

Dragonknight

In an eroded genre as Power Metal, bands as this quintet deserves appaluses for its efforts.

Samnite Black Metal

Sakahiter

Overall, this was an enjoyable experience. The aggressiveness of the album is its best feature, as well as the harrowing vocals. Combined with machine gun drumming and thick bass notes, it made for a memorable album.

Maledictum

Scitalis

Overall, this was an uncommon album for the genre mostly due to the way the vocals were delivered. One thing is for sure, I would not want to be alive during these infamous witch hunts, because I am sure it didn’t end well.

Damnatio Aeterna

Deathless Legacy

This album was very well put together, from the story to the music. They have an amazing vocalist, a catchy sense of songwriting, and a flair for drama that is not overdone.

In the End, Was it Worth it?

Scare

Take a look at the album cover if you want clues as to the type of music that’s inside. Hues of gray and black suggest depression, and doom, and the black figure with a mask suggests death. The way he holds up his robe, he is beckoning you somewhere. I get the shitty reality of modern life in this music, but not so much the hopeful optimism. It was an enjoyable listen for me.

In Darkness We Remain

Destroyers of All

This was an excellent album. The band keep true to their aggressive roots but were able to mix in several other elements to keep their sound fresh. They are also accomplished musicians that execute with confidence.

Otherlike Darkness

Felgrave

“Smooth transitions and overall coherency” aren’t two things that I readily hear in the album. Some of the transitions are sharp, and the songs are put in a blender at times, shaken, mixed up, even intermixed. Still, the album was interesting to me, because it was an out-of-the-box style. Give the album a spin for yourself and see what secrets it might unlock.

The Dark

The Dark

Emo Metal Outburst.

Kidron

Sacrosanct

This was a solid album, combining elements of traditional Heavy Metal with Power Metal, and even some Progressive Metal. As indicated in the bio, twin guitar harmonies and the sweet voice of Max is much of the focal point on the album, as well as an honest emotional quality to the music.

Dark & Dangerous

Savage Master

Because I have to say that as far as “Dark & Dangerous” is concerned, I now have heard better, stronger and more coherent songs from SAVAGE MASTER than ever before. The songs are not only positive in their aura, they are also executed and recorded to a perfect standard, with an outstanding sound to boot.

Without Warning

Saber

The SABER brand of super simple Old Fashioned Heavy Metal is played at the utmost enthusiastic level I have ever encountered. You can feel it radiating off the album.

Lost In Flames

Saber

Musically this is very enthusiastically written, played, recorded and released pure Heavy Metal music by a band that likes to keep things simple. They have the ability to make you take notice of everything they do, however straight forward it might be.

Morax - The Amulet

Morax

I have racked my brain about which bands you can compare him to, and there are enough, but I will have to mention that comes to mind all through the album, which is DIAMOND HEAD. You will regularly feel that that is who you are listening to, and as far as I’m concerned that is a huge endorsement. But please don’t compare the two, as MORAX has a very different feel, a lot darker.

Faster Than Death

Hirax

Here we go again, another album by HIRAX. Well, I do say that “Faster Than Death” is a full length, but that is because it houses nine songs. The fact that the total playing time is 21:54 minutes makes me wonder whether I am getting this right. As the band hasn’t sent any information with the music and cover, I look it up in The Metal Archives, where I see it classed as a full album. Okay then.

Erasure of Color

Aversed

The band is clearly talented, and their compositions are tight. They can hit you with a one-two punch of hardened belligerence, especially in the vocals, or they can take a step back and let the melody flow when they need to. Some of the transitions in and out of these competing passages can be bold, even stark however, and I wish some of them were just a bit smoother.

Valediction

Ofnus

OFNUS’ “Valediction,” is a fantastic album that balances all the against the grain elements of black metal with ideas that will appeal to people who normally avoid the genre.

Serpent Deverounment

Maceration

MACERATION’s “Serpent Devourment,” is just as good, if not better, than their previous two albums and it’s going to establish them as a very constituent force in the scene.

Lemmon Lintu

Mastord

This was a solid listen for me, but too many of the songs fell into the same somber category, and I would have liked to have heard the band take a few more chances, maybe some change of pace songs even. I enjoy somber music, but this was just a bit too much.

Avenger

Wildness

Wildness from Stockholm Sweden were formed in 2014 by drummer and song writer Erik Modin […]

When Yesterday Comes

Alien

Alien were formed in Gothenburg Sweden and have been part of the hard rock scene […]

Eschaton Magicks

Nachash

"Eschaton Magicks" is as stately and dark as its cover—Death riding atop a skeleton horse flanked by skeleton, winged warriors, a suit of broken and empty armor at the horse’s hooves. Victory and death all on one image. A must have for extreme metalheads.

Arimortis

Necrodeath

"Arimortis" is the NECRODEATH’s 14th and last album—a perfect final power chord to mark the end of a stunning career.

Live in France

Wings of Steel

Releasing a “Live” album with only one full length album under your musical resume is usually not the normal progression in a bands catalogue, but that’s just what WINGS OF STEEL have done with their latest self-release “Live in France” capturing the raw and electric energy from their inaugural 2024 European tour.

Eclipse

Frogg

The band is immensely talented, and their musicianship registers off the charts. Some constructive criticism? Some of the songs sound too sterile and technical for me. The little snippets of melody are very well done, and if they would let some of them linger a little longer, they would have more of an impact. Still, this is an album that every Metalhead should hear, for the technical brilliance alone.

Life Death And Miracles

Plastic Drop

Good Hard Rock from Italy.

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