Album Reviews

Montreal’s death metal formation Phobocosm has achieved a sense of momentum in songwriting. The quartet returns with a new full-length album, “Gateway,” which immerses the listener in a claustrophobic and oceanic atmosphere. Although the album has an organic element, the main driving force here is the searing guitar riffs and morose growling that take center stage.
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Kneel Before The Death is an extreme blackened deathcore metal band forged in early 2013. During the early years, the band released three EPs that gained growing curiosity among the Finnish metalheads. Following lineup changes and a new musical direction, they re-emerged in 2023 with a sharpened vision. They released the self titled full length Kneel Before The Death and I'm curious what they have in stock for us.
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Bloodred Hourglass have been around for a while, 20 years to be precise and they have long claimed their place in the scene. Yet they never quite tickled my fancy, until now...
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Finnish female-fronted rock sensations GINGER EVIL have released their debut album, 'The Way It Burns', out via Frontiers Music in Feb 25. "From Foo Fighters to Fleetwood Mac" is how the band hears their music, with singer Ella Tepponen bringing a whole new kind of twist to their rock expression. Everything was coming together. Music producer and film director Richard Stanley, known for his work with THE WHO heard demos of GINGER EVIL and was inspired to write lyrics.
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As with many death/black metal bands that tackle themes of war, the Ukrainian outfit 1914 managed to adapt to modern and atmospheric form of death metal style. In that grim reality of the ongoing way between Ukraine and Russia, the holy war years of WWI captures the spirit of the band. Like their previous albums “The Blind Leading the Blind” and “Where Fear and Weapons Meet”, 1914’s effective artillery returns with the fourth studio album “Viribus Unitis” offers a furious war soundscape combat.
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Lycania are a young symphonic metal band from Maintal, Germany. Their music is inspired by bands like Nightwish, Delain and Serenity. They were founded in 2015 and so far released one full length album.
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Chris Maragoth has just released his new EP called 'Depths of Despair'. 2 songs we already know: 'History on Repeat' and 'Hidden Signs of Sadness'. Let's hear what the other 3 songs on this EP have to offer us!
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French black metal avant-gardists Blut Aus Nord draw parallels between the melodious elements of the band’s past albums and the cosmic space odyssey in the newest endeavor, “Ethereal Horizons”, out via Debemur Morti Productions on November 28, 2025. Throughout the epic sixteenth album, the mastermind behind the creative sonic works "Vindsval" molds a galactic and dimensional experience while leaving the black metal elements at the forefront.
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When members of the Finnish black metal band Sielunvihollinen, Soldau (drums) and Ruttokieli (vocals, all instruments) forged a pact in the year 2021, together they unleashed a new entity under the name of White Rune. Adding another magical musical creation in the sub-genre of melodic and symphonic black metal. The duo returns with their second full-length album, “Eventide on Aurora”, which embraces the second wave of Finnish black metal bands of the early '90s. White Rune’s composition is mainly focused on keyboards, guitar melody hooks, and vampiric shrieks, all of which are the hell-mark of the Nordic frostbitten tradition.
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Back in 2013 Tuomas Saukkonen stated that he stopped al his ongoing projects and start a new band called Wolfheart. But you can't kill your own children that easily, so in 2020 came a new album from his project Dawn Of Solace and out of nowhere came a new album from Before The Dawn in 2023. With on vocals the talented Paavo Laapotti, who competed in the Voice Of Finland in 2022 and became second place. Since 2013 Tuomas released 7 albums with Wolfheart, 3 albums with Dawn Of Solace and now his second since the resurgence with Before The Dawn. That's on average one album each year, how's that for being productive. Here comes 'Cold Flare Eternal'
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