Barnone of the very best albums of the year, an independent band that clears the boundaries of the genre and brings it to ...

I should have rethought that approach when I penned my first TÅRFÖDD review. As it turns out, the band is on the hyper-productive side. So here we are with the third release by TÅRFÖDD in 2026. I jest ...

Symphony In Flesh” is a modern representation of classical Swedish Death Metal, with the chainsaw guitars riffs being enriched by the lead guitars, which offer the dark melodic framework ...

The album holds hope in a delicate balance and through raging storms. It almost seems to present the listener with a ...

From Bandcamp, “For over two decades, ISKALD have stood among the leading names in Norwegian melodic black metal. Now performing as a five-piece, the band expands its trademark northern sound with its ...

CAUSTIC returns after 11 years with "Inner Deflagration", delivering a bloody masterpiece of high-speed Spanish death metal.

This was an excellent album that also had a nasty snarl in the production. Rather than making the sound clear as a bell, they kept it muted with hues of grey, so that it would better reflect the vile ...

This was a lovely album that unfolded slowly like a spring flower in bloom. The cold, hard ground of winter is no match for nature, and that flower will rise and bloom. It reminds us that even when ...

In the early 90s when Grunge music made its appearance, Heavy Metal and Hard Rock went through some pretty rough times. A lot of Hair Metal (or Glam Rock if you prefer) bands vanished as Grunge made ...

With last years warmly received & critically acclaimed album “Elemental”, British Melodic rockers First Light […] ...

NEOPERA offer an interesting symbiosis of classical music and Metal. “Eternal Source” is not a traditional symphonic Metal album, it is a mixture of orchestral and operatic Metal ...

One of things I love about extreme metal is the proliferation of concept albums. Instead of a clutch of tracks covering random ideas the band's designated songwriter happened to think about over a ...