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Wheel Of Fortune

Grand Slam

This quartet comes with a Hard Rock masterpiece!!

Infinite Reminiscence

DVRK

Listening to the album, you can clearly understand why the songs are so short, because the band packs in the sound so tight and dense, and they pour in a century of hate into each composition. This music is not for the faint of heart.

Mochari

Machukha

The album feels like a visceral portrayal of humanity being overwhelmed by the harshness of the world. Each track plunges the listener into a sonic landscape where raw intensity and unrelenting soundscapes mirror the struggle and resilience of the human spirit against relentless adversity. The music envelops you, creating an experience that is both profound and unsettling, capturing the essence of a world that is unforgiving.

Vertigo

Psyanide

“Vertigo” is a decent mixture of Death Metal and Groove Metal including a few other Death Metal styles

Toxic Grace

Evil Dead

“Toxic Grace” has all the ingredients of traditional Thrash Metal, and it is a smart mixture of aggressive tracks at fast pace, and melodic doom-laden mid-tempo tracks

Sacraments of Necromantical Empires

Lunar Spells

All in all, LUNAR SPELLS’s “Sacraments of Necromantical Empires,” is a solid listen, if unremarkable. If you like raw black metal, you could do worse than listening to this album.

Mind Burns Alive

Pallbearer

All in all, PALLBEARER’s “Mind Burns Alive,” is an highly emotional AND impressive tour de force. It’s intense in a lot of different ways and I enjoyed my time with it. With that being said, I can understand why some fans aren’t going to like it. Give this one a chance and let it really sink in. “Mind Burns Alive,” deserves your time and patience.

Stories To Forget

Words Of Farewell

“Stories To Forget” is a bag of everything ranging from heavy and powerful to overly melodic and melancholic parts

Killing For Revenge

Six Feet Under

“Killing For Revenge” is a fast, aggressive, and intense hammering anf one of the Death Metal highlights of 2024 so far

Condemned to the Breaking Wheel

Ischemic

In Doom Metal, it’s all about the riff. These are sturdy, gloomy riffs that stand up to the test of time. I have always maintained that Doom Metal is best with harsh vocals, because it helps to stack the cards on the darker side of the aisle. Here you will get despair stacked on top of despondence, stacked on top of hopelessness.

The Continuous Nothing

Coffin Curse

Chilean Death Metal

Punished by Nemesis

Stress Angel

Call it getting back to basics, call it an inoculation against the watered down, mainstream bullshit that is flooding so many metal streams, but “Punished by Nemesis” revitalizes through its sheer will to destroy.

Prequel to Madness

Traveler

Extreme Metal fans may find “Prequel to Madness” a little too clean and predictable for their tastes, but lovers of classic rock and traditional Heavy Metal will thrill at this latest album from TRAVELER.

The Way Forward

Black Tusk

Their brand of Sludge-mashed Punk is commanding, energetic, and compelling. You can’t not want to break things while listening to the album.

Call It What You Want

Night Laser

Night Laser the sleaze rockers from Hamburg Germany already have three albums under their belt […]

Auf Zerfetzten Schwingen

Autumnblaze

I really enjoyed the album. As I mentioned before, it’s all about that precarious balance that on one side keeps the listener from being overly excited, and on the other side, keeps them from falling into the abyss. It’s a skill that the band plays with quite well.

La France des Maudits

Seth

The melodies on the album are quite enchanting. There is a stiff and thick structure of Black Metal that is augmented with a story that seems to come to life as you listen to the album. It pulls you in, throws you into the heart of the conflict, and leaves your body bruised and broken by the end.

Mand Af En Tid

Mike Tramp

Mike Tramp of course the frontman of White Lion, one of the best Hair Metal […]

Abhorrent Invocations

Serement

All in all, SEREMENT is another amazing Greek band and “Abhorrent Invocations” is another top notch Greek album. This is a quality release that raises the bar for the genre as we approach the second half of the year.

Of Everlasting Cravings

Sun Descends Alone

This was indeed a charming album. Trébol has a melodic sensibility to his compositions that make the music catchy, and memorable, and the listener long for better days.

Et in Arcadia Ego

Lares

Even if tripped out doom/sludge and long songs aren’t your thing, give this one a chance. It’s so weird, nearly to the point of being alien, that even if you don’t like it or it isn't normally isn’t your style, I think it will still be an engrossing experience that will pull you until the very last second.

Edifice

Heresiarch

HERESIARCH’s “Edifice” has impressed the hell out of me and I wonder where this band has been all my life. Any fan of music that is constantly against the grain and pushing itself to the next level needs to check this out.

Incipient Chaos

Incipient Chaos

This was a good album, but could have been better with a little more diversity from song to song. I especially love the prominent role of the bass player, and the thickness of the sound.

Scenes From the Afterlife

Mutilated By Zombies

A fine Death Metal release is what this North American trio offers to you.

Stoned Again

Max Boogie Overdrive

A very good album from this Hard Rock/Boogie Metal/Stoner Metal or any other Metal thing you can think opf. Just listen to it, and listen it LOUD!

Remember to Die

Maesün

This release is a fine first coming from this international Symphonic Power Metal act.

Mass Extinction

Keep The Promise

Hardcore isn't dead, it's evolving and this Italian quintet is here to proove it, even beating our ears down!

The Cryptic Homicides

Infection

And from Peru comes this storm of pure Old School Death Metal!

Desolation Temple

Desolation Temple

This Brazilian band rescues the old ways of Atmospheric Black Metal from the 90s, but with an actual outfit.

Temples Colliding in Fire

Inconcessus Lux Lucis

I like the combination of filthy Black Metal with the Speed and Thrash Metal of the past. Although they aren’t creating anything new necessarily, the sound is authentic, and it blasts right through your ears with fire and passion. These riffs will stick around your head for a while as well.

Gateways of Eternity

Dolmen Gate

....isn’t a bad album but it’s missing something to really propel to higher highs. I’m confident the band will nail down their formula so I will be watching for their sophomore album.

Darkest Times

Beyond The Hate

Ultimately, while I don’t think “Darkest Time's” is terrible, it just isn’t exciting to me and didn’t keep my interest. It’s a solid melodic death metal album but nothing more. I definitely hear the band’s potential so I will keep them on my radar and see how they expand upon their vision.

Can It Get Any Worse?

Red Temple Pray

“Can It Get Any Worse?” is a good coffee house album—a middle-of-the-road, vanilla collection of 11 short tracks mostly about love and modern-day malaise.

Chytridiomycosis Relinquished

Slimelord

“Chytridiomycosis Relinquished” is as hard to pronounce as it is to understand, but it is worth checking out. Great to hear something so innovative in a world that has gone so mundane.

Life, But In Reverse

Suicide Season

All in all, “Life But In Reverse” is a strong debut album from a band that seems to have a bright future with their broken, dismal sound. I’ll be happy and miserable to watch them grow from here.

Till Aska

Walk Through Fire

It isn’t an album where you are going to find these standout moments that will call for the rewind button to play over and over. It’s better than that, the depth and layered substance is something that works best from start to finish, or at least a song or two at once. This isn’t an album about picking and choosing what works best: everything comes together for an incredible experience.

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