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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Master – Saints Dispelled
Master – Saints Dispelled Hammerheart Records 9,0/10,0 Brief: Founded in 1983 and originally based in Chicago, Illinois, Master is one of the earliest bands in the world labeled as Death Metal! One of…
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Borknagar – Fall
Borknagar – FallCentury Media Records7,0/10,0 Brief: After tours with Rotting Christ and Wolfheart in the U.S., Moonspell and Insomnium in Europe, along with high-visibility festival slots at Hellfest, Midgardsblot, and Nummirock in 2022,…
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Madder Mortem – Old Eyes, New Heart
Madder Mortem – Old Eyes, New Heart Dark Essence Records 9,0/10,0 Brief: Reaching the end of a strenuous journey beset by turmoil and loss, Madder Mortem is finally ready with their 8th studio…
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Emil Bulls – Love Will Fix It
Emil Bulls – Love Will Fix It Arising Empire 9,0/10,0 Brief: Emil Bulls, renowned for their dynamic presence in the Alternative Metal scene, are on the cusp of releasing their much-anticipated new album,…
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Darkest Hour – Perpetual | Terminal
Darkest Hour – Perpetual | Terminal MNRK Music Group 7,5/10,0 Brief: Darkest Hour tune into the cycle of death and rebirth, absorbing their intensity and spitting it back at the world in the…
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Mass Hysteria – Tenace Part 2
Mass Hysteria – Tenace Part 2 Out Of Line Music/Verycords 9,0/10,0 Brief: French metal icons Mass Hysteria drop a new album “Tenace – Part 1”, released worldwide via Out Of Line Music/Verycords. Mass…
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Dying Wish – Symptoms of Survival
Dying Wish – Symptoms of Survival SharpTone Records 8,0/10,0 Brief: We actively choose to survive. We don’t passively wait for it. Instead, we make the choices we need to in order to navigate…
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Molybaron – Something Ominous
Molybaron – Something Ominous Inside Out Music 8,0/10,0 Brief: Formed in Paris in 2015 by Dublin based guitarist Gary Kelly, MOLYBARON are steadily earning themselves a reputation for thinking outside the box and…
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Haunt the Woods – Ubiquity
Haunt the Woods – Ubiquity Spinefarm Records 8,0/10,0 Brief: In the deepest reaches of the English countryside there is a sublime sound that emanates from the landscape and its name is Haunt the…
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Asinhell – Impii Hora
Asinhell – Impii Hora Metal Blade Records 8,0/10,0 Brief: For more than 20 years, vocalist/guitarist Michael Poulsen has been spearheading Danish rock and roll machine Volbeat, releasing eight full-lengths, selling millions of albums,…
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