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Atreyu – The End Is Not The End
March 29, 2026
On 24 April 2026 it will be time for ATREYU to give us new music with “The End Is Not The End” and this American Metalcore band is a lot more than just that right now. The Melodic parts have definitely been embedded more into their music than they had before. Now there is a shifted balance between the really Heavy parts, the pure Metalcore music and the more Melodic influences.
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Bloodred - Colours Of Pain
March 29, 2026
You know what strikes me more than anything else? That is that the quality of the songs on "Colours Of Pasin" is outstanding from start to finish. There are no weak spots, there are no lapses in making your ears tingle, making your hairs stand on end and BLOODRED just keeps sending shivers down my spine.
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Gus G. - Steel Burner
March 29, 2026
For those who have never heard of GUS G., my question is; under which rock have you been hiding? Even if you don’t his original band FIREWIND, with whom he released the total of 11 albums, you should at least beware that he has been the main guitarist for OZZY OSBOURNE for a number of years, resulting in him writing for the 2010 “Scream” album.
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Wolfshead – II - Ravings From the Gutter
March 29, 2026
I just can’t find fault what the band is bringing on “II - Ravings From the Gutter”. It might not all be perfect, but it all sounds sincere, exudes the right kind of attitude. There isn’t a dull moment to be heard, so your ears will sharpen their hearing quite a few times, and your brains will try to accept and extort the information at its worth.
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Aeon Gods - Reborn To Light
March 27, 2026
AEON GODS plays their Symphonic Power Metal rather fast, giving the drummer enough space to demonstrate his double bass techniques. The guitars that accompany that sound are very well versed in making the whole sound heavy without losing the very Melodic touch. On top of that there are the vocals, that sound very pleasant, that are exactly right for this kind of music.
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Induction - Love Kills!
March 27, 2026
Musically these guys certainly have their ducks in a row. Everything they make fits, sounds about right and has all the hallmarks and qualities that you would expect of a band that makes Melodic Symphonic Power Metal. It has speed, power, and is very easy for the ears and brains.
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Nighnacht - Limb Service
March 27, 2026
Even though the songs are short and to the point, they do not lack the qualities and traits that you not only expect, but also hope for in a band that is trying to bring Extreme Metal to your doorstep. In that respect “Limb Service” doesn’t disappoint for one second. NIGHNACHT knows exactly what they are doing.
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Orchid Throne - Buried in Black
March 27, 2026
I have to say that I am very much enamoured with opening tune “Dreamworld”. It starts and ends with piano sounds, but in between you really get the sounds that I have mentioned about the musical direction. I have to say that the combination of mainly Gothic Metal with Melodic Death Metal works really well in this song.
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Evildead - Annihilation Of Civilization (Reissue)
March 22, 2026
The music on “Annihilation Of Civilization” is quite good, the production is as it was expected to be for a band in this music genre, the cover is brilliant. The band was clearly a bunch of very talented musicians with a singer that was very definitely making the right kind of statements for the time this was first released. (Unfortunately a lot of the matters described are again or still valid and important in this day and age.)
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Evildead - The Underworld (Reissue)
March 22, 2026
As their second album, you can hear that EVILDEAD had learned from their debut album, that, although quite good, could have sounded better. That has been remedied on “The Underworld”, as the sound is just that bit fuller, just that bit more rounded.
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Ram-Zet – Sapien
March 20, 2026
I know that a band wants to start with the one song that is a cut above the rest, that could easily be seen as the best song they have. Well, that is definitely the case with “Zerocane”. This is simply the best track that RAM-ZET has ever produced.
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Joel Hoekstra's 13 - From The Fade
March 20, 2026
On “From The Fade” all comes together in a very good way. Whether the music is fast and furious, or slow and emotional, it all sounds exactly right. All the right notes are being hit, all the right noises are being offered, and the pristine production makes it all gel in just the right way.
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Green Carnation - A Dark Poem, Part II - Sanguis
March 20, 2026
After “Leaves Of Yesteryear” in 2020 and their 2025 album “A Dark Poem, Part I – The Shores Of Melancholia” it is now time for them to give us “A Dark Poem, Part II - Sanguis”. This band from Kristiansand in Norway isn’t just a simple Progressive Rock/Metal band, nope, they don’t have a problem mixing those influences with a lot of Gothic under- and overtones.
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Archspire – Too Fast To Die
March 15, 2026
This doesn’t border on or has any association with Grindcore or any subsidiary of that genre. ARCHSPIRE plays pure Technical Death Metal that just goes a lot faster than you are used to. The title is quite apt, because what I am hearing on “Too Fast To Die” has the right combination between being as Heavy and intense as possible, whilst simultaneously maintain a bit of Melodic undertones to make the whole experience just that bit easier to digest.
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Hellripper – Coronach
March 15, 2026
To me “Coronach” is an album that is exactly right for HELLRIPPER. The band needs to be able to vary more in their intensity and expand their musical horizon, in order to prevent the band being one of those who keeps repeating themselves.
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Amongruins - Advent of Chaos
March 13, 2026
The sound on “Advent of Chaos” is actually quite heavy. The production is not only as solid as granite; it has everything you wish for if you want the music to come out of your speakers in an impeccable way what you decide to turn the volume up time and time again. Well, I can tell you that AMONGRUINS have succeeded with flying colours in that respect.
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Dyecrest - Defying Gravity
March 13, 2026
DYECREST is categorised as Contemporary Heavy Metal. Well, if you add the monikers Epic, Power Metal and even a bit of Symphonic to all of that, then you are in the right ballpark. And what I shouldn’t forget to mention is that this is Female Fronted Metal.
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Thunderor - Bleed For It
March 13, 2026
Musically there is no other way to describe THUNDEROR than as a band that has their ducks In a row. Even though they change direction ever so often, they do make themselves sound very coherent.
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Barbarian - Reek of God
March 10, 2026
Apparently BARBARIAN plays Speed/Thrash/Black Metal. Well, that is true. And if that will make you think of a project like MIDNIGHT, I wouldn’t blame you, as “Reek of God” does fit in the same ballpark. The big difference between the two being that where MIDNIGHT has more of an early VENOM vibe, you will be hard pressed not to compare BARBARIAN to a band like MOTÖRHEAD, mixed with early EXCITER.
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Total Annihilation - Mountains of Madness
March 10, 2026
Even though I have quite a good understanding of the English language, I have to admit that there is one title that had me stumped, so I looked it up. The explanation of “Nyctophobia” is that it is an intense, irrational fear of the dark or night-time, often causing severe anxiety, panic attacks, and physical symptoms like sweating or nausea.
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Executioner Steel - Rage Of The Thunderstorm
March 10, 2026
The Bangladesh band EXECUTIONER STEEL play Old School Epic Heavy Metal that is inundated with every cliché available to Metalkind on “Rage Of The Thunderstorm”.
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Our Mirage - Fractured Minds
March 8, 2026
Metalcore is becoming more and more a mainstream Metal genre, and with that you will get the bands that start fitting that bill more and more. OUR MIRAGE is such a band.
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Philippe Drouin Obvurt - Le Chemin Du Gaucher
March 8, 2026
If any of my readers ever have had guitar lessons, or feel that they can do with more finger fast exercises, you might want to check out PHILIPPE DOROUIN OBVURT on his latest endeavour, the debut album “Le Chemin Du Gaucher”. This is classed as Technical Death Metal, but this band (project?) from Quebec in Canada does more masturbatory guitar sounds than any other Death Metal band I have even encountered.
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Vast Pyre - II Bleak
March 8, 2026
Well, first off let me tell you that if you do not like your Doom Metal slow and deliberate, you really need to stay away from VAST PYRE. They have the ability to go slow, but also very Heavy in a rather low toned sound, making it all come out in a very menacing and threatening way.
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Abstracted – Hiraeth
March 3, 2026
“Hiraeth” is beautiful, well balanced, but also with enough unsuspecting turns and breaks that every time you listen you can’t help but discover and/or hear something that you hadn’t noticed before. That to me makes a record a diamond in the rough, as you just don’t have a clue when the explorations will be complete.
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Angus McSix - Angus McSix and the All-Seeing Astral Eye
March 3, 2026
There is no escaping the fact that ANGUS McSIX is using all the cliches that the Power Metal and Heavy Metal have produced in the last fifty years and formed them into songs that are as much Happy Metal as they are Power Metal.
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Iron Bones - Poison Rat
March 3, 2026
IRON BONES feel that they play Heavy Speed Roll, and that is also the way that the music is constructed. Simple, as straight as an arrow whilst taking no prisoners along the way. What that does is give “Poison Rat” very much a Punk attitude.
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Beyond The Pale - Monument In Time
March 1, 2026
The album review you're about to read is a compilation of all their earlier releases. It therefore is quite fitting that it has taken the name of the EP, as all five original songs are featured on this rendition of “Monument In Time”.
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Sypsis - Annihilated Existence
February 27, 2026
I am enamoured with the results of what i have been hearing while I have been listening to “Annihilated Existence” time and time again, and have no qualms into proclaiming this to be a treasured album.
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Hyshtral - Ad Infinitum
February 27, 2026
In the 30 plus minutes that HYSHTRAL needs to get through “Ad Infinitum”, you will be thrown all over the place emotionally. One thing is for sure, the band definitely starts with their best song, as “Cell In Hell” is simply put a corker of a tune.
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Ellefson/Soto – Unbreakable
February 24, 2026
“Unbreakable” is undoubtedly and unequivocally a Metal record, one where the music is fierce, straight forward and very much in your face. It ranges from Heavy Metal up to and brushing against Thrash Metal territory.
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Killerwitch - Palace Of The Dragon
February 24, 2026
Musically KILLERWITCH does go back to the eighties in feel, atmosphere as well as sounds, giving “Palace Of The Dragon” a bit of an underground vibe.
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Star.Gate - The Moment Of A Lifetime
February 20, 2026
If you are a fan of this kind of Neoclassical Metal in general, or in this case what STAR.GATE is feeding us on “The Moment Of A Lifetime”, I guess that you’re in for a treat. It will be no surprise that I feel that this album will really speak to you. Why? Because everything that STAR.GATE does fits.
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Thus Defiled - Wings of the Nightstorm (Reissue)
February 17, 2026
Whereas the musical style definitely is Black Metal, THUS DEFILED aren’t afraid to venture out into Thrash and/or Heavy metal territory when the songs demand it. That is where the real power lies within THUS DEFILED.
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Sacred Leather - Keep The Fire Burning
February 17, 2026
SACRED LEATHER hail from Indianapolis, which lies in the USA state of Indiana. According to the Metal Archives they play Heavy/Thrash Metal, but I would rather refer to their music genre as being a mix of NWOBHM, Old School Heavy Metal and Eighties Speed Metal.
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Imperatore - The Lionspirit
February 17, 2026
The sound that “The Lionspirit” is showing off is superb, is exactly what this kind of music needs. The bombastic and epic parts are being blasted through your speakers, which does happen all through the album.
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