TROLLWAR – Tales From The Frozen Wastes
(Independent) Rating: 7.5 Tales From The Frozen Wastes is the new EP from Trollwar and possesses a hefty runtime of 25 minutes. The Canadians drudge up a rousing blend of...
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CAUSTIC – Scene Of A Crime
(Independent) Rating: 7.0 Debut album from Argentine speed metallers, whose ’21 Arrowfire demo impressed these ears. No hold-overs from that initial foray (which featured a cover of Venom’s “Witching Hour”)....
WHITE TOWER – Night Hunters (Album Review)
Arise, mighty skeleton hunters of the night! If the New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal could be boiled down to a single mission statement, it would assumedly be to recapture...
THE HALO EFFECT – March Of The Unheard (Album Review)
The unheard are the loudest. Though seemingly a bygone era, the days when marrying the extreme aggression and fervor of death metal with the melodic contours of 80s traditional metal...
FERNANDO PERDOMO – Waves (Album Review)
Think Steven Wilson is the hardest-working musician in the rock/prog world? Think again. He doesn’t hold a candle to the output and work ethic of multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, champion-of-prog’s-hidden-legends, the...
HELLOWEEN – Live At Budokan
(Reigning Phoenix Music) Rating: 8.5 The snow is falling as winter encroaches on the land. Not a bright a time for planting, but one crop is able to bloom through...
HAZZERD – The 3rd Dimension (Album Review)
Musical 3D chess with extra riffs. It might seem completely contradictory to associate descriptive terms like nuance and subtlety with the impact-based, uncompromising aggression of thrash metal. From its very...
THY KINGDOM WILL BURN – The Loss And Redemption (Album...
An escape from the embers of modernity is found. The ephemeral nature of modernity has often been the catalyst of some of the most compelling artistic expressions of escapism. Contrary...
HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY – Scorched Earth
Scorched worlds come to those who wait. “The despairing musings of a fatalistic mind” could be a phrase used to describe any creation from the depressive side of black metal,...
Album Review: JINJER Duél – Metal Injection
Ukrainian progressive metal band Jinjer has returned with their latest offering, Duél, a riveting exploration of the genre’s outer limits. Building upon the foundation laid by their previous acclaimed efforts,...
