Oceans Of Slumber – Where Gods Fear to Speak Season of Mist Records 8,5/10,0 Brief: More than a decade has passed since the release of Oceans Of Slumber’s Aetherial debut album, and a…
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Category: Reviews
Leprous – Melodies Of Atonement
Leprous – Melodies Of Atonement Inside Out Music Records 9,0/10,0 Brief: The only thing that remains constant in the world of Leprous is change. Formed in 2001 in Notodden, Norway, this most agile…
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Pure Reason Revolution – Coming Up To Consciousness
Pure Reason Revolution – Coming Up To Consciousness Inside Out Music Records 9,0/10,0 Brief: Pure Reason Revolution is a British rock group formed at the University of Westminster in 2003. Their music incorporates…
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Dark Tranquillity – Endtime Signals
Dark Tranquillity – Endtime SignalsCentury Media Records9,0/10,0 Brief: Melodic death metal phenoms DARK TRANQUILLITY herald uncertain times on their new album, Endtime Signals. The Swedish outfit made their mark indelible with The Gallery…
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Zeal & Ardor – GREIF
Zeal & Ardor – GREIFRedacted Records9,0/10,0 Brief: Zeal & Ardor is a Swiss avant-garde metal band started and led by Manuel Gagneux, a Swiss-American musician who had previously created a chamber pop project…
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Illdisposed – In Chambers Of Sonic Disgust
Illdisposed – In Chambers Of Sonic Disgust Massacre Records 9,0/10,0 Brief: Illdisposed’s new album “In Chambers Of Sonic Disgust” is full of anger and frustration, making it the band’s most ambitious and creative…
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Kittie – Fire
Kittie – Fire Sumerian Records 8,5/10,0 Brief: Fire is the seventh studio album by Canadian heavy metal band Kittie through Sumerian Records. It is the band’s first album in almost 13 years following…
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Huntsmen – The Dry Land
Huntsmen – The Dry Land Prosthetic Records 10,0/10,0 Brief: Emerging from the shadows and plumes of smoke, Chicago, IL ensemble HUNTSMEN are set to make their return in 2024 with their third album,…
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Camerata Mediolanense – Atalanta Fugiens
Camerata Mediolanense – Atalanta Fugiens Prophecy Productions 10,0/10,0 Brief: Camerata Mediolanense are one of these extremely rare musical gems that are hard to categorise. With the sixth studio album “Atalanta Fugiens” (“Atalanta Fleeing”),…
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Earthtone9 – In Resonance Nexus
Earthtone9 – In Resonance Nexus Candlelight Records 9,0/10,0 Brief: Earthtone9’s name is one rightly hailed by those who know as one of the most forward-thinking, clever, musically wise and creatively smart in the…
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Cainites – Revenant
Cainites – Revenant Scarlet Records 8,5/10,0 Brief: Cainites is the name of the new melodic death metal duo risen from the ashes of the Italian gothic-doom masters Motus Tenebrae and founded by Andrea…
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Withering Surface – Exit Plan
Withering Surface – Exit Plan Mighty Music Records 7,0/10,0 Brief: Exit Plan is the 6th studio album from WITHERING SURFACE following the success of the 2020-comeback album Meet You Maker. The process of…
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Neaera – All Is Dust
Neaera – All Is Dust Metal Blade Records 8,5/10,0 Brief: German metalcore veterans NEAERA, who are celebrating their twentieth anniversary this year, will release their All Is Dust full-length on June 28th via…
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Bala – Besta
Bala – Besta PIAS Records 9,0/10,0 Brief: BALA are Ánxela Baltar (guitar/vocals) and Violeta Mosquera (drums/vocals), two friends who got together in 2013 with the sole purpose of having fun, playing at a…
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Nightmare – Encrypted
Nightmare – Encrypted AFM Records 9,0/10,0 Brief: French heavy metal frontrunners, NIGHTMARE, have shared a brand new album Encrypted! Founded in 1979, NIGHTMARE have been an integral part of the European metal scene…
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Rotting Christ – ΠΡΟ ΧΡΙΣΤΟU (Pro Xristou)
ROTTING CHRIST – ΠΡΟ ΧΡΙΣΤΟU (Pro Xristou) Season of Mist Records 9,0/10,0 Brief: In the dimly lit catacombs of extreme metal, one name stands as a monolith: ROTTING CHRIST. Sakis Tholis and his…
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Midas Fall – Cold Waves Divide Us
Midas Fall – Cold Waves Divide Us Monotreme Records 8,0/10,0 Brief: For the follow-up to their critically lauded, 2018-released full-length, Evaporate, founding MIDAS FALL members Elizabeth Heaton and Rowan Burn are joined by…
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VLTIMAS – EPIC
VLTIMAS – EPIC Season of Mist Records 9,0/10,0 Brief: Extreme metal powerhouse VLTIMAS (pronounced ‘uhl-tuh-mas’) assault metaldom once more with their highly-anticipated sophomore album, EPIC, through Season of Mist. Featuring Norwegian guitarist Rune…
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Rifforia – Axeorcism
Rifforia – Axeorcism Metalville Records 8,5/10,0 Brief: From the ruins of the Swedish band Tuck From Hell (they released the album ‘Thrashing’ over a decade ago) comes Rifforia. Drummer Fredrik Johansson and guitarist…
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Whom Gods Destroy – Insanium
Whom Gods Destroy – Insanium InsideOut Music 8,5/10,0 Brief: A new force of progressive metal has emerged – Whom Gods Destroy, a formidable new group formed by keyboardist Derek Sherinian, guitarist Ron ‘Bumblefoot’…
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Paralandra – The Body Electric
Paralandra – The Body Electric Legend Recordings 9,0/10,0 Brief: Paralandra formed in the summer of 2013 when Casandra Carson and her dad, Paul Carson, began writing songs together to play a one-time event…
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Nemesis – Embrace Reality
Nemesis – Embrace RealityGrom Records9,0/10,0 Brief: Nemesis is an only all-female melodic death metal band in Serbia. The band was formed in late 2013 and believes that this album shows their musical progress…
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Brat – Social Grace
Photo Credit: Greta Gerstner Brat – Social Grace Prosthetic Records 8,0/10,0 Brief: Straight out of the Crescent City, BRAT are set to release their forthcoming debut album, Social Grace, via Prosthetic Records on…
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Ponte Del Diavolo – Fire Blades From the Tomb
Photo Credit: Cristina Ferrero Ponte Del Diavolo – Fire Blades From the Tomb Season of Mist 8,5/10,0 Brief: The band proposes a Doom & Black metal sound with old school roots, adding a…
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