Album Reviews

U.S. blackened heavy metal outfit NITE hits back with the third studio album “Cult of the Serpent Sun” out via Season of Mist on March 14th, 2025. NITE goes balls to walls with their fiery riffs and this is probably one of the attributes of the band in combining the fiery heavy metal riffs with blackened style vocals.
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Ván Records presents the third studio album “Fentanyl” from German blackened death/doom entity Morast. The dark theme of their music showcases subtle industrial elements and evil atmosphere due to the guitar arrangements and the stifling environment that the album conjures.
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Phil H. Anselmo and co. unleashes a hellish onslaught with the band’s first full-length album “Gold” out via Nuclear Blast Records on February 21st, 2025. The album includes thirteen blistering songs, with emerging aspects of death, grind, and black metal manifesting throughout the album’s duration. The super group comprises Philip H. Anselmo on vocals, Derek Engemann on guitar and backing vocals, and John Jarvis on bass guitar and backing vocals, Mark Kloeppel handling the guitar and backing vocals, and Adam Jarvis on drums.
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There is something wicked and evil oozing from the newest album by the Norwegian black metal band Nachash. The trio stretches beyond its peers to embrace the roots of thrash, black, doom and even death metal reminding fans of the early phase of extreme metal. The sophomore “Eschaton Magicks” sets up the archaic dark atmosphere with its slow tempo riffing and the raw production which blew me away from the onset of this excellent offering. Formed in 2011, Nachash released its first EP “Conjuring the Red Death Eclipse” in 2015 and only re-emerge in the underground scene in 2018 with a full-length studio album “Phantasmal Triunity”.
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Turku-based blackened death metal quintet Sepulchral Curse has returned with a new full-length album “Crimson Moon Evocations” the band’s third output released via Dark Descend Records on February 28, 2025. After solidifying its name in the underground metal scene with the sophomore “Only Ashes Remain” released five years ago, we are yet to witness a brutal culmination of blackened heaviness.
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In my opinion, Architects has gotten better with each album they released and that resulted in their best album yet called 'All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us' released in 2016. Also, the last album with Tom Searle who died that same year due to skin cancer. But they didn't give up. 'Holy Hell' was not better than 'All Our Gods...' but not that bad either. After that, they got lost a little bit for me. 'For Those That Wish To Exist' was too different and soft and 'The Classic Symptoms Of A Broken Spirit' came too soon after 'For Those...' and I didn't even know it came out at the time. But I stayed a fan nonetheless. But then they released the singles 'Seeing Red', 'Curse' and 'Blackhole', and I was baffled. Architects was back and how. I present to you, 'The Sky, The Earth & All Between'.
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Catalonian-based death doom sextet Onirophagus unleashed its third full-length album “Revelations from the Void” via Personal Records on January 17th, 2025. While listening to the band’s latest album they have somehow resurrected the early style of My Dying Bride, and with the refined skills of the guitars blending melodies into a slow procession of doom metal.
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My preference for 70s hard rock music never changed, although I grew up listening to many hard rock bands like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Camel, and many more since my teenage years. Another unique band that I have become fond of in the last few years is Britain’s progressive folk-rock group Jethro Tull. Forged in 1967, the band has been active for over four decades, despite the hiatus of six years they were reunited in 2017 and released few album outputs “The Zealot Gene” which was released in 2022 and followed by another album “RökFlöte” in 2023.
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Nanowar of Steel is an Italian band that creates parody metal. What's that, you might ask? Well, in short, they have a great sense of humor and know how to put that in metal songs. They create amazing music on their own, but also take existing songs and tweak them that much that they become hilariously good. This album contains the audio of their sold out live show at Alcatraz, Milan in their home country Italy. 3000 people watched this show, now this memory can be spread to those who weren't there as well. The live shows cover 2 CDs. The third one is a collection of 9 studio released songs. Let's check it out!
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It's early in the year, and we already have a candidate for becoming a highly decorated album. It comes out of Sweden. THE HELLACOPTERS give a new example of their enduring appeal with their latest album, 'Overdriver'. Released on January 31, 2025, the 8th album continues the band's tradition of delivering pushing high-energy rock 'n' roll with a very vivid retro vibe. And a very fitting continuity to their 2022 album 'Into Oblivion'.
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