No Sins to Confess Review
It looks like definitely this is the year of new bands of NWOBHM. It’s only February and I’ve already lost count of how many of them I have reviewed. I’ve...
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Dynazty – Game of Faces Review
After a bunch of albums with AFM Records, one of the most iconic recording companies dedicated to Metal music, Dynazty decided to part ways and join Nuclear Blast Records, another...
Blood Cult – We’re Gonna Take Your Soul Review
Being open to all the existing kinds of Metal music – and they are many, believe me – always pays off even though when they are so weird – good...
Hangman’s Chair – Saddiction Review
A Metal band where the bass and the drums are the prominent instruments while the guitars are in the background. Not only in the background, most of the guitars are...
Dawn of Solace – Affliction Vortex Review
By quirk of circumstance, melancholy and sadness have reached me this week with two releases and one more to come. Yesterday I had Hangman’s Chair with “Saddiction,” one of the...
Interview With VERITAS
We recently had a pleasure to chat with a U.S. Hard Rock/Metal band VERITAS. Their debut studio album, Threads of Fatality, was released in 2020. Entire chat follows below: How...
Exhumed – Gore Metal – Decibel Magazine
In 1998, there was some thrilling, forward-thinking game-changing happening in extreme underground metal. The Dillinger Escape Plan were storming the scene, making us rethink what was humanly possible on instruments,...
MALTUKA’s Black Rite – A Ferocious Debut That Thrashes with...
Bergen, Norway’s newest thrash export, Maltuka, waste no time making their presence known with their debut EP, Black Rite, released via High Roller Records. The band, formed by guitarist/vocalist Viljar...
Destruction’s “Cracked Brain”
Sometime in the 1990s, I had a year-long period where I was absolutely obsessed with thrash and old-school metal, culminating in traveling to Milwaukee Metalfest for my first festival experience....
The Obsessed – Lunar Womb
For 15 years, The Obsessed’s 1991 LP Lunar Womb was spoken about in hushed and reverent tones, particularly in stoner rock circles. That’s how long it took for the band’s...
