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Beautiful Nightmare

Magnadur

The songs are all pretty short, but they are packed to the gills. The visual that I get when I listen to the album is children frolicking in a playground for the afternoon, while dark and ominous figures dart in and out and commit murders in broad daylight. The contrasts are so sharp that they don’t make sense at first, but taking in the album as a whole, you can appreciate the central themes, as well as Tomi’s uncompromising creativity and vision.

Neon Inferno

One Morning Left

ONE MORNING LEFT are a Finnish metalcore band that formed way back in 2008 who […]

Dark Mother's Child

Lankester Merrin

Their band name taken from the fictional and well renowned novel The Exorcist (1971), there […]

Blood Bound

Sin of God

Out of the axis USA/Sweden, this Technical Death Metal act really amazes the fans.

I Skovens Rige

Trold

This Danish band shows a very good form of extreme Folk Metal with traditional ways of Folk Metal. Hear it!

Eternal

Tundra

A Metalcore act that mixes influences of New Metal and other modern tendencies.

Tyran’s Oath

Tyran

A fine traditional Heavy Metal act that has a great potential to be turned into music.

March of the Eternal Heretic

Sidewinder

WOW, what a great mix between Hardcore, Crossover and Thrash Metal is heard here!

Do or Die

Mean Mistreater

Wow, what a great and fine Heavy Metal release!

Dying Breed

Hell Comes Home

A fine new path for Metalcore acts can be starting on this EP.

Genocidal Upheaval of Subservient Abrahamic Law

Genocidal Rites

The empty throne of Old School Black Metal found its pretender...

For Those Afraid to Die

Ephemera

A surprising mix between Melodic Hardcore/Post-Hardcore and Metalcore can be found here. Taste it!

Bile of the Gods

Deadspawn

A fine mix between Death Metal and Blackened Death Metal is heard here.

Caballero

A very good Heavy Metal release from this Finnish act.

In the Temple of Tyrant

Behölder

Mixing Doom Metal with Epic Metal and US Metal influences, this quintet sounds really great!

Here Be Dragons

Avantasia

And Tobias sets sails again with a very good AVANTANSIA's release.

Resist

Admire the Grim

This was a promising debut album from the quintet from Finland. They prove that they have the chops and the songwriting skills to be a major player in the genre. For their next outing, I would just encourage them to explore more of the melodic side of their sound and take more chances in the area of experimentation. This would really put some miles between them and their peers.

Nourishing the Disaster to Come

Berlial

The album exists in the space where anger, sadness, and longing don’t just coexist, but feed into one another, creating a storm of sound that is both deeply cathartic and painfully fragile. This is an album that doesn’t simply express emotions—it struggles with them, wrestles with them, lets them collide and merge in unpredictable ways. It leaves the listener standing in the wreckage, with the understanding that some wounds never fully heal, some desires are never fulfilled, and some emotions will always rage inside us, tangled together in ways we may never fully understand.

Canonisation of the Foul Spirit

Hell Militia

This wasn’t a bad album by any stretch of the imagination, it’s just that too many of the songs sounded the same. This is often a rookie mistake, or the mark of a band who know how they want to sound. I believe it is the latter, but for their next release, I would push them into a little more experimentation and/or diversity.

Mutiny

Raging Fate

Metal mutiny.

The Dormant Darkness

Buried Realm

this album is a nuclear ball of energy just waiting for someone to pick it up so that it can blast them into dust. It’s as if they doused the entire room in accelerant, lit the fuse, and watched the fire ignite. With the load of talent he has as well as his guests, you can hear how well it all works.

Twilight of the Mortals

Carcolh

From their EPK, “Hailing from Bordeaux/Herbignac, France, CARCOLH emerged in 2016, birthed from the ashes […]

I. Ancestral

Kazea

This was a fascinating album whose sound mirrored the album cover, and I would love to hear more from the band. The cover shows a person with rags covering his face, and sticks for hair, and I think we can all relate to this image at times. The music was expertly blended without genre labels to reflect this image and these feelings.

This Consequence

Killswitch Engage

Being one of the first bands to venture into this genre, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE has been able to invent themselves as they wanted, resulting in them making their own brand of Metalcore since 1999. These guys from Westfield in Massachusetts, USA are easily identifiable when they start playing their music. The mix of Metalcore with Thrash Metal is very distinguishable.

No Sins To Confess

Löanshark

LÖANSHARK was founded as a power trio in 2017, in the heart of Barcelona, Spain. They have tried to get on the album ladder since then. In the meantime, they did release an EP in 2018 (“The Warning Sessions”) and a compilation in 20231 (“The Gangland Tapes”). And now, on Valentines Day 2025, they have released their debut album “No Sins To Confess” through the RPM-Roar label.

Timeless Reverie

Serenity In Murder

“Timeless Reverie” is a multi-faceted album with many different layers. It is mainly a symphonic and melodic Death Metal album, where the guitars and the orchestral arrangements drive a characteristic and unique sound, all kept very well together by an excellent vocalist, who gives the album a different dimension

Locust Cathedral

Icon Of Evil

The sophomore album of ICON OF EVIL is a good traditional Death Metal album. “Locust Cathedral” has aggression, chilling melodies, great guitar riffs, hammering drums, and brutal vocals

Kept

Rioghan

The album effortlessly blends countless elements into a seamless, emotional experience. It thrives on contrast, where aggression and serenity, despair and hope, melody and dissonance all coexist without ever feeling forced. Few records manage to capture such an immense range of sonic textures and emotional landscapes without losing their cohesion, but this does so with effortless grace. It is a carefully crafted, beautifully chaotic masterpiece that demands to be felt as much as it is heard.

The Mother of Death

Necronomicon Ex Mortis

NECRONOMICON EX MORTIS’ (what a cool name) “The Mother of Death” is a standout in […]

Undying Spectral Resonance

Mammoth Grinder

MAMMOTH GRINDER’s "Undying Spectral Resonance" is not here to mess around; it’s a game-changer in […]

Balefire

A new band, coming with a bang. From the deepest confines of hell, seems to […]

Grotesque Mutations

Public Grave

PUBLIC GRAVE’s “Grotesque Mutations” is a punchy, no-holds-barred assault on the senses, offering up a […]

2nd Sound

Kaiser

Stoner Metal dream.

Troubled Mind

Derev

The best part of the album is the band’s ability to carry strong emotions into their music. Many of the songs are not complicated, but they are loaded with feelings. I’m not sure I have heard a Progressive album that is this unpretentious and this emotional at the same time.

Pearl Hunting

Belle Morte

“Pearl Hunting” is eleven tracks of well-balanced Symph—sometimes haunting, sometimes visceral—which will make you feel classy, the way that Symph always does, and inherently evil, the way true metal should.

Extinction

Plague of Stars

WormHoleDeath has a knack for finding unsigned exceptional talent skulking around in the metalsphere and PLAGUE OF STARS is another one of them. “Extinction” is an excellent find for extreme metal fans who have a liking for dark Symph.

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Beautiful Nightmare

Magnadur

Neon Inferno

One Morning Left

Dark Mother's Child

Lankester Merrin

Blood Bound

Sin of God

I Skovens Rige

Trold

Eternal

Tundra

Tyran’s Oath

Tyran

March of the Eternal Heretic

Sidewinder

Do or Die

Mean Mistreater

Dying Breed

Hell Comes Home

Genocidal Upheaval of Subservient Abrahamic Law

Genocidal Rites

For Those Afraid to Die

Ephemera

Bile of the Gods

Deadspawn

Caballero

Caballero

In the Temple of Tyrant

Behölder

Here Be Dragons

Avantasia

Resist

Admire the Grim

Nourishing the Disaster to Come

Berlial

Canonisation of the Foul Spirit

Hell Militia

Mutiny

Raging Fate

The Dormant Darkness

Buried Realm

Twilight of the Mortals

Carcolh

I. Ancestral

Kazea

This Consequence

Killswitch Engage

No Sins To Confess

Löanshark

Timeless Reverie

Serenity In Murder

Locust Cathedral

Icon Of Evil

Kept

Rioghan

The Mother of Death

Necronomicon Ex Mortis

Undying Spectral Resonance

Mammoth Grinder

Balefire

Balefire

Grotesque Mutations

Public Grave

2nd Sound

Kaiser

Troubled Mind

Derev

Pearl Hunting

Belle Morte

Extinction

Plague of Stars

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