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Storming – Celestial Clear Moonlit
December 11, 2025
The information in the bio is indeed what you will find on the album. The hypnotic gaze of many of the songs does create a shimmering effect, but the production is so raw it takes away from my enjoyment. It does have peaks of intrigue, but four of the five songs also have a similar sound that is hard to distinguish.
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Victimarum – Seitsemän soihdun valossa
December 10, 2025
Overall, this was an album that just burned from start to finish, and “melancholy misery” is an apt word for the collection of songs. A little more diversity could have taken the album further, but I admire their commitment to their sound.
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Human Fortress – Stronghold
December 10, 2025
Musically there is no way around the way HUMAN FORTRESS plays their music. this is Epic, this is Power Metal, and these guys are very well-equipped to bend what they make into a shape that fits them down to a T. There isn’t a song that doesn’t fit, there is no note that has been put wrong, there are no mistakes or mishaps on “Stronghold”.
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Malignant Aura – Where All of Worth Comes to Wither
December 10, 2025
The title of the album is very fitting to the songs. Besides a healthy amount of dissonance and aggression, the songs dive deep into the earth, seeking refuge in a cold, wet cave where no sunlight even dares to enter.
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Karate Steve - Time Under Tension
December 9, 2025
Boston Massachusetts melodic death metal/hardcore outfit, Karate Steve, dropped their third album Time Under Tension on October 24th, 2025. […]
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Goatfather – House of the Rising Smoke
December 9, 2025
A smoking pillar of fuzz-infused and psych-inspired tunage.
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Fimbul Winter – What Once Was
December 8, 2025
“What Once Was” is dark, epic, and melancholic. It offers excellent guitar work, crushing basslines, and chilling melodies, all kept together very well by versatile vocals
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Abysmal Grief – Taetra Philosophia
December 7, 2025
Creepy at times, this is a Doom Metal album for old school fans of the genre. Although I don’t know it, I get the feeling that the band has a cult following, because of how long they have been around, and their sound hasn’t changed much. For me, it was just a mediocre listening experience that just didn’t offer any surprises.
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Ronnie Romero - Backbone
December 7, 2025
Over the past decade Ronnie Romero has worked with the likes of Yngwie Malmsteen,Michael Schenker, […]
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X Factor 1's Markus Lachendro "Character over reputation. It's a core belief of mine now for sure. I don't care what anybody else thinks. That's what I think about how I carry myself is just be yourself."
December 6, 2025
I took some time recently and sat down with Markus Lachendro, guitarist for the band […]
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Wild Beyond - Black Sites in Lower Chambers
December 6, 2025
Black Sites in Lower Chambers is the newest EP from Philadelphia Pennsylvania black/death metal band Wild Beyond. This […]
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Vauruvã – Mar Da Deriva
December 5, 2025
If the album makes you look for answers, it did its job properly. But, there are no answers to be found. Instead, the deep-pocket sound deals with possibilities that almost seem endless, laying out a myriad of paths one could follow and allowing each person to make that decision for themselves.
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Tailgunner - Midnight Blitz (single)
December 4, 2025
When heavy metal icon K K Downing produces your latest album and loudly proclaims “They personify everything that is heavy metal” the music world takes notice.
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Greystone Canyon - Something Borrowed…Something New
December 4, 2025
The name of the album is quite fitting. “Something Borrowed…Something New” relates to the fact that half of the songs are covers and the other half new songs by the band themselves. GREYSTONE CANYON has released two albums before this one, and the 2024 one called “Iron & Oak” got a perfect rating from my colleague “Metal Mark” Garcia. He rightfully wrote that these Aussie have a knack to sound like they belong in the seventies. And that they also really know how to play and make songs sound good.
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Mezzrow - Embrace The Awakening
December 4, 2025
“Embrace The Awakening” has been produced at a very good and transparent level, which allows you to hear very instrument in detail. It also has been given enough punch to make sure that all the songs that MEZZROW has put on this album has the right amount of energy, excitement and power.
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Soulfly - Chama
December 4, 2025
Gone is the jumping up and down from the early years, only to be substituted by a much more Industrial Metal vibe, whilst keeping a little bit of Groove Metal vibe, but also a little bit of Thrash Metal atmosphere in there. It makes for interesting listening, as to me this sounds like Max Cavalera is trying to recreate the effect that NAILBOMB had some thirty years ago.
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The Acacia Strain - You Are Safe From God Here
December 4, 2025
“You Are Safe From God Here” is over 38 minutes of panzer-like tank-worthy deafening and explosively deadly Deathcore. Because if one thing becomes clear, it is that the band have only gotten Heavier, a lot more menacing and almost lethal in their approach to how they write and play songs. There is only one way to go; to be as destructive and devastating as is humanly possible.
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Kill Ritual - In My Head
December 2, 2025
Musically the band have evolved in such a way that it will be easier for new admirers to step in, whilst those who already liked what KILL RITUAL did so far will be able to continue their admiration. “In My Head” is that good, yes.
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Blindfolded and Led to the Woods – The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me
December 2, 2025
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.
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Juliet Ruin - Regime
December 2, 2025
One of the biggest surprises of the year for me is the new Juliet Ruin EP entitled Regime. This […]
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Maudits – In Situ
December 2, 2025
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.
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Monograf - Occultation
December 1, 2025
“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.
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Hagzissa – Revelry of a Maltreated Jade
December 1, 2025
“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.
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Umulamahri – Learning the Secrets of Acid
December 1, 2025
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.
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Sweet Freedom - Blind Leading The Blind
November 30, 2025
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.
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Them - Psychedelic Enigma
November 30, 2025
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.
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Ring Van Möbius – Firebrand
November 30, 2025
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.
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Mattador - Save Us From Ourselves
November 30, 2025
Hailing from Puerto Rico, Mattador combined the slick, hook-driven sound of bands like Dokken and […]
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Mike Tramp - Songs Of White Lion Volume III
November 30, 2025
So for the final instalment in this trilogy of “Songs Of White Lion” comes “Volume […]
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Angelo Perlepes' Mystery - Spelled By Fire
November 29, 2025
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.
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Summoning Hellgates – Spear of Conquest
November 28, 2025
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.
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The Ominous Circle – Cloven Tongues of Fire
November 27, 2025
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.
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Abominator - The Fire Brethren
November 27, 2025
The amount of times I've compared this album to white noise is weird...
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Stråle - Reformation
November 26, 2025
...unpolished polished-ness...
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Thaumaturgy - Pestilential Hymns
November 25, 2025
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.
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Spock’s Beard – Archaeoptimist
November 25, 2025
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!
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