Hooded Menace are the best death-doom band in the world. Sure, My Dying Bride and Paradise Lost are still going strong, and the mighty Asphyx put out a solid album…
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Warkings’ Revenge album from 2020 was one of the strongest power metal albums of recent years and might have landed the sub-genre’s top gong if Unleash the Archers hadn’t also…
Swiss quartet, Ophelia’s Eye, are one of those bands that could fall into the melodic death metal or metalcore categories. Both are sub-genres that lost their zest and purpose in…
Swedish prog metallers, Loch Vostok, have been releasing records since 2000 and are now on their eighth album. This time, founder and frontman, Teddy Möller, is stepping back from lead…
The Canadian province of Newfoundland is famous for its subarctic climate and permafrost and is no doubt an inspiration for Artach’s ice cold black metal chill. Following on from last…
Wyoming trio, Fell Harvest, were planning to release a debut record of vicious death-doom metal with harsh vocals until screamer and bassist, Joseph Fell, contracted Covid-19 during the recording process.…
You should always be sceptical of a Japanese girl band playing metal. Five pretty maidens that look like teenagers and shred like graduates of an elite music academy sounds too…
It’s not clear why Lower Saxony death metal quintet, Dawn of Disease, split up after releasing Procession of Ghosts via Napalm Records in 2019. You could say that Hiraes is…
Artillery are as old as this reviewer, having formed in 1982 in the Copenhagen suburb of Taastrup at the dawn of thrash metal. As one of the first artists to…