Album Reviews

'Effigy of Nightmares' is a big improvement from the sophomore. Valdrin has succeeded in taking their craft to a professional level.
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The second EP of Held In Secret shows a lot of potential en mature lyrics. We will see more of these guys and hopefully an even bigger score.
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Gomorra's debut album 'Divine Judgement' is truly a blast packing fast, aggressive and groovy riffs and overall virtuosity.
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Thirty years after Winter’s groundbreaking death doom debut ‘Into Darkness’, founding member, Stephen Flam, has penned its spiritual follow up with his new band, Göden, on ‘Beyond Darkness’.
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Black Curse manages to give each element a deserving focus. War metal, raw metal or primordial death metal: all these musical traits can be applied to what Black Curse has presented on their debut album.
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The cold icy impression of the Norwegian black metal is beautifully conjured on the self titled album.
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Cosmic Putrefaction is somewhere in between the cosmic orbits of Tomb Mold's album, 'Manor of Infinite Forms' and the semi-progression of Blood Incantation.
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With this album I found myself distracted. I like the songs. They definitely scream party but they lack the power of pirate metal. It is still Alestorm, but not as loud and rough as we are used to.
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'Lamenting of the Innocent' is extended to one hour and four minutes, ornamented profusely with clean guitar passages. This is why the new album feels diluted and less heavy than the prior releases.
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'Franckensteina Strataemontanus' is an immense album that that will capture your senses.
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