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Cleave

Beneath A Steel Sky

This was an excellent album, that combined the artistry of Post Rock with the fervent bite of Metal. The clean tones made your sense of emotions heightened, while the harsh tones remind you of how often the world can kick your ass.

Eternal Flames Of Hell

Inverted Cross

INVERTED CROSS deliver a very traditional mixture of Speed and Thrash Metal with direct anf simples guitar riffs, aggressive vocals, and grim melodies

Glorified By The Light

Soulskinner

“Glorified By The Light” has its focus on a grim, epic, and melancholic melodic framework with a few twists either towards a doomier or a more traditional Death Metal sound

Withering Shine (...into Oblivion)

Mindreaper

MINDREAPER is a melodic death metal band from Germany, that formed in 2001. Their latest […]

Nova Atlantis

KingCrown

As far as power metal goes, this is a simple but effective album that provides a solid romp through their magical brand of soaring metal. If you don’t like power metal, “Nova Atlantis” won’t change your mind. If you are a power metal fan, you’ll get some mileage out of this but don’t expect it to blow your mind.

Metalation

Paragon

There is no doubt what kind of music PARAGON plays. It is Teutonic Heavy Metal through and through. This is just as German as the Oktoberfest, Currywurst and Bratwurst. “Metalation” is the fourteenth studio album the band has made since 1994, and I have to say that it is a belter.

The Master Is Inside

Mystyc Blade

That feeling that you will get from listening to “The Master Is Inside” is one of discovery, as if you have found another diamond in the rough. And yes, maybe you have if you like what MYSTYC BLADE is treating us to.

Guardians Of Time

Empires Of Eden

This is Epic Orchestral Heavy Metal with a lot of external influences that ensure that variety and diversity is rather high on the list of achievements when it comes to “Guardians Of Time”.

God Of Pain

Choices Made in Anger

V8 Wankers

Good Hard Rock with attitude and humour.

Birna

Wardruna

Has there ever been a bad WARDRUNA album? That’s a rhetorical question, and the answer is ‘no.’ And so it remains with "Birna."

Ghostwound

“Ghostwound” is a psychedelic trip down a wandering road which somehow winds back on itself, in the end depositing you where you left off and enticing you to head out yet again.

A Fountain of Anguish is Gone

Tigguo Cobauc

This was a fantastic album, and it brought Doom to a whole new level for me, because the band was bold, and unafraid to explore uncharted territory, while keeping their roots strong.

Saturnalia

Selvans

This is very personal music, but the hardened elements will please the listeners as much as the melodic ones, and as I mentioned, the band makes good use of emotion, swells, and crescendos to give the album a sweeping and ominous sound.

King Of Gods

Aeon Gods

“King Of Gods” could be the start of a promising Power Metal career of AEON GODS as they are a band with potential

Witch Hunt Road To Vengeance

Viperwitch

“Witch Hunt: Road To Vengeance” combines traditional New Wave of Heavy Metal with a theatric concept and post-apocalyptic features

Starbound (Reissue)

Osukaru

The last album in the trilogy of Osukaru reissues in the Pride & Joy Classix […]

Spirit Invictus

Triumpher

The songs they have written are all of a very decent to good quality, with good rhythms, impressive sounds and most of all convincing atmosphere. You can really feel yourself standing with TRIUMPHER and heading into battle.

Insurrection

Overt Enemy

Hot damn, who is this trying to blow me away from the get go? It is OVERT ENEMY, and opening song “Resinated” has a very strong riff and an immense intensity that makes you take notice, whether you want to or not.

Angels Rising

Dying Angel

Hailing from Wehrheim, Hesse in Germany we have DYING ANGEL, a band that has been around since 2019 and plays Heavy Metal, with a strong connection to the NWOBHM era.

Ariah

I am quite smitten with “Ariah” and would have liked to hear more of these guys. I am glad that Someoddpilot Records took the plunge and decided to rerelease this 35-year-old gem.

Moþir

Forndom

I appreciate the minimalist approach to the music, because it allows the layers to be stripped off and the core is left for the listener to enjoy. The core here is both somber and prophetic, and it hints at a world we all know is coming, but we push it down deep inside to avoid the confrontation.

Anthropophagy (Reissue)

Vulcano

This remastered verson of this classic from this Brazilian Black/Thrash legendary act is really great!

Forthcoming Age of the Reaper

Total Hate

A fine Old School Black Metal release, in the vein of the Second Wave of Black Metal!

Extinction Ritual

Hate Angel

Wow, what a great limitis killer on Blackened Death Metal this trio is!

Forged in Black (Remastered MMXXIV)

Forged in Black

This reissue of this UK-based Heavy Metal quintet is a fine opportunity for older and younger fans.

Something Eldritch and Macabre

August Moon

Even if it's late, this Finnish Technical Death Metal trio released an excellent full-length!

The Pyre Aflame

Abyssal Frost

Wow, what great first full-length is delivered by this North American Blackened Death Metal band!

Echoes

Nationwide

This was a solid AOR album, that featured great vocals, a crunchy backing of instruments, energy and enthusiasm, and confidence on the part of the band. The hooks were memorable, and catchy, and this is an album that you can crank up to 10.

Deathly Pale

Parusight

This was a fairly diverse offering of Black Metal that stayed within the lanes of the genre but did not just rely on old, re-hashed formulas of old. Oliver worked in some melancholy, some keyboards, and some ambiance into the songs, and it breathed new life into a genre that has become overrun with artists lately.

Permanent Dawn

Earthburner

From the urban wastelands of Chicagoland comes a torrent of putrid aggression with a disgusting display of deathgrind

A Gruesome Encounter

Chained to the Dead

Influenced by old shool death that is tinged with hard rock elements from old New Jersey

Sanguine

Benthic

This was a good album. The band used a lot of different elements in their brand of music, including groovy riffs, both clean and harsh vocals, some Core, some Grunge, even some Alternative.

Blandede Meninger Og Aforismer

Myrholt

All in all, Myrholt’s “Blandede Meninger Og Aforismer,” is a wonderfully balanced album between two different approaches to black metal and effectively combines them together with interesting songs.

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Cleave

Beneath A Steel Sky

Eternal Flames Of Hell

Inverted Cross

Glorified By The Light

Soulskinner

Withering Shine (...into Oblivion)

Mindreaper

Nova Atlantis

KingCrown

Metalation

Paragon

The Master Is Inside

Mystyc Blade

Guardians Of Time

Empires Of Eden

God Of Pain

Deimos' Dawn

Year of the Cobra

Year of the Cobra

Corroding Soul

Corroding Soul

Choices Made in Anger

V8 Wankers

Birna

Wardruna

Ghostwound

Ghostwound

A Fountain of Anguish is Gone

Tigguo Cobauc

Saturnalia

Selvans

King Of Gods

Aeon Gods

Witch Hunt Road To Vengeance

Viperwitch

Starbound (Reissue)

Osukaru

Spirit Invictus

Triumpher

Insurrection

Overt Enemy

Angels Rising

Dying Angel

Ariah

Ariah

Moþir

Forndom

Anthropophagy (Reissue)

Vulcano

Forthcoming Age of the Reaper

Total Hate

Extinction Ritual

Hate Angel

Forged in Black (Remastered MMXXIV)

Forged in Black

Something Eldritch and Macabre

August Moon

The Pyre Aflame

Abyssal Frost

Echoes

Nationwide

Deathly Pale

Parusight

Permanent Dawn

Earthburner

A Gruesome Encounter

Chained to the Dead

Sanguine

Benthic

Blandede Meninger Og Aforismer

Myrholt

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