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The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me

Blindfolded and Led to the Woods

To summarize the album, in addition to the chainsaw intensity and its bruising, take no prisoners nature, I love the shifting pacing. It can take off like an errant rocket or slow to a dangerous crawl. The latter moments are most frightening, because they give you more time to think and to consider what lies in front of you. Even in the best of circumstances, love can sting like a scorpion. Maybe all of us have a little serial killer locked up inside us somewhere.

Forever

Grailknights

GRAILKNIGHTS deliver what their fans expect from them: a journey into the GRAILKNIGHTS universe. To understand the sound and lyrics of “Forever”, you must let go and enter the journey

Darker Fates

Hellbearer

“Darker Fates” is classical Thrash Metal, it is a fast and aggressive delivery of tight guitar riffs, crushing basslines, and spine-chilling melodies

Regime

Juliet Ruin

One of the biggest surprises of the year for me is the new Juliet Ruin EP entitled Regime. This […]

VOID

AVIANA

Imagine, if you will, a concert. The lights dim. People wait in anticipation as the […]

In Situ

Maudits

One of the things that the album does best is create a variety of moods. Some of them are depressing, others are introspective, and still others are somber. The differences are subtle, but each one can make you feel something completely different. That in a nutshell is the album…an offering of songs that you can unwrap and feel for yourself.

Occultation

Monograf

“Occultation” by MONGRAF kind of blew me away. It suffers only from its brevity. I mean, I could have done with two more tracks or a second disk or full-length A24 movie.

Revelry of a Maltreated Jade

Hagzissa

“Revelry of a Maltreated Jade” is an enigma of an album. The end effect is an album that demands repeat listens in various states of consciousness.

Learning the Secrets of Acid

Umulamahri

Thinking man’s Death Metal? Most definitely. For me, the album plays like a post-apocalyptic landscape of death, disease, and ruin. What’s left on earth is empty and desolate, but what scurries under the surface is very much alive. The genre boundaries for Death Metal are so constricting, but UMULAMAHRI forges their own path within the fire-scorched landscape with a clear vision and an unmatched intensity. Eternal Hell awaits the listener.

Symphony of Chaos

Black Soul Horde

"BLACK SOUL HORDE" is a heavy metal band hailing all the way from Greece and […]

Children of the Night

Torchlight Parade

From the morgue to the stage. This band gives you all the theatrics you are looking for and then some.

Blind Leading The Blind

Sweet Freedom

SWEET FREEDOM? Really? So, this is not RAINBOW, or DEEP PURPLE? It’s not even WHITESNAKE or even MSG? And the singer isn’t JOE LYNN TURNER or his little brother? Are you sure? Well, if you are sure, I’ll go ahead and review this as the debut album by this current version of SWEET FREEDOM.

Psychedelic Enigma

Them

Musically these guys are clearly very well versed in reading each-others minds and complementing what they do in such a way that it all sounds as coherent as superglue. It makes going through the 56 minutes of playing time that “Psychedelic Enigma” holds rather easy to endure.

Firebrand

Ring Van Möbius

I can tell you that if you aren’t giving your full attention to the music that is being played, you are in danger of finding it long, winding, very expansive and even boring from time to time. Whilst when you do listen carefully, preferably with your headphones on and your eyes closed, you will be transported into a world of beautiful surroundings and atmospheric soundscapes.

Save Us From Ourselves

Mattador

Hailing from Puerto Rico, Mattador combined the slick, hook-driven sound of bands like Dokken and […]

Tale of the Two: Dusk

Dragon Throne

I now know what a koto, an erhu, and a shakuhachi are!

Songs Of White Lion Volume III

Mike Tramp

So for the final instalment in this trilogy of “Songs Of White Lion” comes “Volume […]

Society’s Pact With Satan

Cathedral

On this EP you hear all the elements that were needed to make CATHEDRAL into the band they were. It’s all properly and expertly put together in just one song. If this is their last hoorah, then the band couldn’t have gone out in a better way than with “Society’s Pact With Satan”.

Hallucinating Anxiety (Reissue)

Cadaver

I don’t care if you’re a Death metal fanatic, a Thrash Metal nutcase, a NAPALM DEATH admirer or even a Grindcore groveller, you need to take your time and listen to CADAVER on this reinvented version of “Hallucinating Anxiety”. I can assure you that you’ll like it at least as much as I do, if not more.

Light And Desolation

Blizaro

The world is a wonderful place, where a lot of interesting things happen. Some of those will enthral you, while others will disappoint you. The fact that you never know beforehand which is the case, you get and embrace the surprise. Well, that is definitely the case with BLIZARO, a one man band from Rochester in the state of New York.

Warren Of Necrosis

Black Rabbit

BLACK RABBIT has come out stronger this time. When I was listening to “Chronolysis”, it felt that the band just let go, and damned be the consequences. It made for some uneven levels on that wile, while on “Warren Of Necrosis” it is a lot more in sync with each other.

Spelled By Fire

Angelo Perlepes' Mystery

What I am listening to is a combination of the music that ALCATRAZZ used to make on their first albums, when YNGWIE MALMSTEEN was the guitarist in question, combined with the debut album of YNGWIE MALMSTEEN’S RISING FORCE and even some GRAHAM BONNET era RAINBOW.

Spear of Conquest

Summoning Hellgates

Overall, the album was delightfully wicked, and the vocals were every bit as dark and aggressive as the music. If you want to take a fiery joy ride downward into Hell, climb aboard.

Cloven Tongues of Fire

The Ominous Circle

Overall, their amalgam of Death and Black Metal was indeed both dark and intense. They build a cocoon of shadows with the deftness of a spider crafting a web and just leave it there to ensnare anyone with a morbid curiosity with their death.

Execration

Bloodtruth

Yes, this was a great listen. Yes, I want more.

The Fire Brethren

Abominator

The amount of times I've compared this album to white noise is weird...

Reformatiom

Stråle

...unpolished polished-ness...

Golden Tears of Love and Sorrow

Orob

France is one of the hot beds for modern Metal these days. The album walks a feral line of Post-Black Metal and the expanding horizons of Progressive Metal that it keeps brushing up against like a hand on a forbidden door. It’s harsh, but not primitive, expansive, but never polished to sterility. The interplay creates a kind of emotional chiaroscuro. You feel the darkness, but you can also sense the shapes surviving within it. It’s music that claws upward even as it sinks deeper, and that contradiction is what makes it compelling.

Bianca

This was an uncommon sound, fueled by dual opposing vocal styles. They lure you in, with seductive notes, and then eat your soul with all the fire and hatred of Hell itself. The music undulates with the vocals…at times, as raging as a tsunami, and at other times, calm. The fires burn deeply on the album, like a festering wound that has added salt for more pain, and topped with a barbed dagger inserted into the lesion.

Pestilential Hymns

Thaumaturgy

The 2025 release of Pestilential Hymns by Thaumaturgy features eight tracks (an ADHD'ers version of 46 minutes) of pure grind-hate-death metal core encased in a hurricane of filth.

Power of Discretion

Dave Tinelt

Dave Tinelt, Power of Discretion is a raw and hearty, traditional, all metal and power memorable reverse, snap-back ball cap tip to the skateboarding, convenient store, arcade playing child terror of the 80’s I was and still am.

Archaeoptimist

Spock’s Beard

This is one of Progressive Rock’s finest album of the year. Just quirky enough to keep it interesting and intriguing, they explore plenty of unchartered territory on the album but always find their way home. Their musicianship is outstanding, and I did indeed find that the album has a retroactive feeling to it while staying within the modern scene. Magnificent!

The Iron Tabernacle

The Tabernacle

Tabernacle, a trio of musicians from the United Arab Emirites, have come forth with an […]

Vurias

Thron

The album Vurias, by black/death metal band Thron, was released September 12th, 2025 on Listenable Records. It's […]

The Grief Sower

Behind Starvation

"BEHIND STARVATION" recently released their ep "The Grief Sower", just a short album of only 5 […]

Seeking The Absolute

Nine Treasures

NINE TREASURES is a Chinese folk metal band originated in Beijing, China and formed by […]

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The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me

Blindfolded and Led to the Woods

Forever

Grailknights

Darker Fates

Hellbearer

Regime

Juliet Ruin

VOID

AVIANA

In Situ

Maudits

Occultation

Monograf

Revelry of a Maltreated Jade

Hagzissa

Learning the Secrets of Acid

Umulamahri

Symphony of Chaos

Black Soul Horde

Children of the Night

Torchlight Parade

Blind Leading The Blind

Sweet Freedom

Psychedelic Enigma

Them

Firebrand

Ring Van Möbius

Save Us From Ourselves

Mattador

Tale of the Two: Dusk

Dragon Throne

Songs Of White Lion Volume III

Mike Tramp

Society’s Pact With Satan

Cathedral

Hallucinating Anxiety (Reissue)

Cadaver

Light And Desolation

Blizaro

Warren Of Necrosis

Black Rabbit

Spelled By Fire

Angelo Perlepes' Mystery

Spear of Conquest

Summoning Hellgates

Cloven Tongues of Fire

The Ominous Circle

Execration

Bloodtruth

The Fire Brethren

Abominator

Reformatiom

Stråle

Golden Tears of Love and Sorrow

Orob

Bianca

Bianca

Pestilential Hymns

Thaumaturgy

Power of Discretion

Dave Tinelt

Archaeoptimist

Spock’s Beard

The Iron Tabernacle

The Tabernacle

Vurias

Thron

The Grief Sower

Behind Starvation

Seeking The Absolute

Nine Treasures

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