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Havamal – Ages Of The Gods
November 20, 2025
“Ages Of The Gods” is a symphonic melodic Death Metal album, driven by a strong orchestral component, which is a main contributor to the epic melodeath sound. The lead guitar solos are a standout feature of the album
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Flames – Frequency Of Illusion
November 20, 2025
“Frequency Of Illusion” is a good mixture of Speed and Thrash Metal. The album has a lot of pace and it is well-balanced across and within the tracks
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“We didn't have examples; we didn't have any references to follow.” - Monika Chrościelewska, CZART
November 20, 2025
CZART is an experimental metal band hailing from Poland. The concept behind their debut album, “Czarty Polskie,” has been controversial not only for the AI debate but for the many references to Polish demonology. On All Hallows Eve, Gary Hernandez, writer and editor for Metal Temple, caught up with members of CZART to discuss everything from AI to the reasons why metal resonates so much in Poland to whether we are living in the best of times or the worst. Most importantly, they discuss the beloved CZART goat.
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Jletylishie – Alvorecer De Última Hora
November 19, 2025
This is Black Metal at its most hasty, restless, and breathless, and an album that never stands still, never settles, never lets you fully catch up. The album’s real triumph is how it merges two emotional forces rarely balanced this well: wonder and urgency. The melodic passages make you look upward in awe, while the relentless pace pulls you forward, heart racing, as though you’re chasing a revelation you can almost grasp.
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Golden Serpent - Lullabies from Hell
November 19, 2025
In this review, I explore the themes and instrumentation presented in this album.
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Cemetery Moon – Dominion of Ashes
November 19, 2025
Although the band’s attention to the ferocity of Black Metal is noteworthy, many of the songs on the album blurred together too much. They have talent, and the cover art is excellent, but they need to work in more variation into the album, and perhaps take advantage of the wide genre boundaries these days.
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Revocation - New God, New Masters
November 19, 2025
Revocation, “New God, New Masters” (2025) Metal Blades Records is an undeniable textbook framework of […]
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Hammerfilosofi – Signum
November 18, 2025
Overall, this was indeed a violently alive album, as well as a statement from the band that they are here to subvert you to their will. The intensity never lets up, and it sounds like they are unearthing Hell itself on the album.
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Age of Ruin-Nothingman
November 18, 2025
Hair metal, thrasher, metal core, and all the beauty wrapped into one. Age of Ruin is setting the bar high for other bands trying to make a name of themselves.
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Glasgow Kiss - Down in Flames
November 18, 2025
Glasgow Kiss, where have they been my entire life? Apparently writing Down In Flames for our listening pleasure!
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Morke – To Carry On
November 17, 2025
As far as “To Carry On” goes, a well-written, well-executed album. Recommended for any fan of Atmospheric or Melodic Black Metal.
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Empire Drowns – Endless Nights
November 17, 2025
Overall, the album has great balance…each instrument like the keys, guitars, bass, vocals, and drums work together in a synergy that is hard to find. This was a terrific album, expertly combining the genres of Doom, Death, and Melo-Death together to create a sound of anguish, pain, even terror at times, but all done with a melodic touch.
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Tithe - Communion in Anguish
November 17, 2025
Coming from Portland , Oregon, which is a town several atmospheric, and very interesting bands […]
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Murmur – Red Hill
November 16, 2025
Pain? Yes, you will feel its sharp bite. Anger? Yes, you will feel its fire raging inside of you. The three songs carried a lot of emotion along with them, and like adding salt to a wound, they can easily revive any latent feelings you have tried to push down and lock away. This was an excellent release, and I would love to hear more.
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Fleshvessel – Obstinacy: Sisyphean Dreams Unfolded
November 14, 2025
Right off the bat, you have to marvel at a composition like the four presented on this album. If nothing else, the band has vision. Twenty years ago, this kind of genre smashing didn’t even exist, but now we hear more and more. The only thing I struggle with is finding enough people out there who might appreciate this varied plate of Extreme Metal. Then again, I know they are out there. The album is more like taking a trip somewhere you have never been and not packing anything with you…you leave what happens from there up to a whim, or to fate, depending on what you believe.
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Your Inland Empire – Your Inland Empire
November 14, 2025
This album feels like a forgotten relic from the late ’80s that has been carefully excavated, polished, and reimagined with modern sensibilities. Vocals drift between icy detachment and aching melancholy, perfectly suited to the genre’s emotional palette. The songs carry that signature Darkwave introspection, but the Industrial edge gives them a bite that keeps the melancholic haze from ever feeling passive. Altogether, the album bridges synth-soaked memory and modern darkness. It’s retro, it’s current, it’s immersive, and it hits harder than you expect.
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Redshark – Sudden Impact
November 14, 2025
What immediately becomes clear is that the band have opted to change their dimensions between Heavy Metal, Power Metal and Speed Metal by putting the emphasis on the latter of the three for “Sudden Impact”. It makes this album just a tad more intense, slightly more in your face and certainly unable to ignore when you are listening to it.
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Ghould – Bludgeoning Simulations
November 14, 2025
Experimental, Post Metal, Industrial…whatever you genre purists label this doesn’t matter. The album is a barren wasteland…a vast clearing of the trees in one of the northern most places on the earth. It’s so cold, there are no animals…nothing lives there…nothing even grows there. It’s like a void that if you dare to enter, you will join its dead.
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Azketem – Amid
November 13, 2025
This isn’t your typical Black Metal album. Azekn infuses Gothic threads into the album, which is unusual, and his songwriting is not the common frigid aggression that you hear in the genre. The album is nuance, and even melodic at times, in a dark sort of way. Forget what you think you know about Black Metal and step into his world for a gem you won’t often find.
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Funeral Harvest – Malum in Se
November 13, 2025
This was a haunting album that you could easily relive as a recurring nightmare, and once you open the door and invite it in, it will never leave until you are dead.
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Chaos Over Cosmos – The Hypercosmic Paradox
November 13, 2025
Few band possess this level of musicianship and skill, and even fewer are able to breathe life into heavily technical compositions. Rather than relying on the riff and the vocals to do most of the talking, the band uses electronics, synth, and ambiance to augment the songs. The result is an album that is as dexterous as it is an absolute joy to listen to.
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Heteropsy - Embalming
November 13, 2025
This 45 minute album felt like a slow and mournful couple years.
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Unrecht - A Thousand And One Nightmares
November 13, 2025
One thing becomes clear from the beginning, and stay that way all through the album; the riffing by UNRECHT is sometimes very canny, very intricate, thoroughly convincing and mostly well done. The growling/grunting vocals on the album are really fit for purpose, and very complementary of the musical intentions of the band.
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Willfire - Homebrewed Recordings
November 13, 2025
WILLFIRE is a band from Järvenpää, Uusimaa, which is in Finland. They play pure straight forward old fashioned Heavy Metal, and have done so since 1998.
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Teach Them To Weep – Past the Veil of the Observable Universe
November 12, 2025
Although at its core, it’s Black Metal, the album is really a very eclectic and varied mix of sounds, and you need to go into the listen with an open mind. Some music just isn’t linear, and this out of the box album doesn’t follow any rules. I found Sean’s compositions to be intriguing and unorthodox, and anyone looking to explore will find some real gems here.
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IAN – Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing!
November 12, 2025
Post Rock sports one of the widest boundaries in music, and this fits into place. The screamed vocals are usually associated with Post Hardcore music, but there is more experimentation here then what you get out of the later. The most telling part about the depth of their sound is that sometimes the music is hard to make sense out of, and each listener could have an entirely different experience.
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Kauan – Wayhome
November 12, 2025
This was one of the few albums where the themes melded into the music so very well. For me, it’s a story of perseverance, set to music that is poignant, expressive, and, at times, dramatic. There are so many things to discover about the album if you have the time, and it will charm you into immersing yourself in its secrets.
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Bliss Of Flesh - Metempsychosis
November 12, 2025
Blackened death? Deathened black? Whatever it is, it rocks.
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Ripping Remains - Necrodestiny
November 11, 2025
I was turned off by Ripping Remains' new album - and that was probably the exact reaction they wanted.
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Scorching Tomb - Ossuary
November 11, 2025
Old-School Death Metal that isn't old at all? Scorching Tomb recreate the sounds of the 90's with scary accuracy.
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EF – Give Me Beauty…or Give Me Death (20th Anniversary)
November 10, 2025
It’s hard to believe that this album dates back to the “second wave” era of Post Rock, when it became a divisive term for many. But, there is no denying its ability to pull the most out of the listener, even with feelings they weren’t sure they even had. Its mood is discoverable at times, with warm and comforting tones, and more mysterious at others, when it leaves just a bit of a bittersweet taste on your tongue. One of the more lasting impressions I get from the album is feeling awake for the first time in months.
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Phantom Vengeance – Ghost of a Warrior
November 10, 2025
The music I used to listen to in the 80’s, that inspired the band, required an excellent singer and musicians. PHANTOM VENGEANCE has both. I don’t know his name, but he has a crystal clear, rich voice and he can easily negotiate the upper ranges. The music is intelligent, fun to listen to, and emotional. This is an album that any Metalhead would enjoy.
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Qrixkuor – The Womb of the World
November 8, 2025
The album redefines the words “darkness” and “terror.” It’s more like reliving your worst nightmare or torture experience. They bring the death to life, in colors of black, and of the abyss. For me, it’s like standing on the edge of a massive black hole seconds before I am sucked in with a force greater than time itself.
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Novembre – Words of Indigo
November 7, 2025
You might expect a band with this longevity to be stale after all of these years, but you would be dead wrong. There’s a powerful tension between grace and aggression. The instruments hit with a sense of purpose, the guitars snarl and shimmer in equal measure, and the vocals hover between anguish and awe. Beneath the thick layers of sound lies a strange sense of wonder, as if the band is trying to wrestle meaning from the chaos, to find some fragile light buried deep within the noise. It’s the kind of record that just feels alive. The melodies ache, the heaviness hums, and it feels like a meditation on strength through struggle. 35 years later, NOVEMBRE is still killing the game.
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Omnium Gatherum – May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way
November 7, 2025
The album doesn’t follow the standard formula of brutality softened by melody…it redefines the balance altogether. The weight here is immense. Riffs crash down with percussive force, and the harsh vocals tear through the mix with a ferocity few in the genre can match. Yet, amid this aggression, the music never succumbs to chaos. The guitars shimmer with melodic grace, weaving intricate harmonies that feel transcendent, while the keyboards act as a spectral counterpoint—lifting the songs into something grander, almost cinematic. The result is a sound both devastating and breathtaking, equal parts storm and sunrise, and another contender for AOTY.
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Thermality – Concept 42
November 6, 2025
This was an excellent album, and the balance the band was able to maintain throughout the album is noteworthy. As a longtime fan of the genre, it’s hard not to compare them to country-mates, and you could do a lot worse than an IN FLAMES comparison. Some might not like too much melody in their music, but again, it is so well done here.
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