Tag Archives: metal

Artist: Asenblut Album Title: Die Wilde Jagd Label: AFM Records Date of Release: 17 April 2020 Lift your hunting horns, your axes, and your tankards to the sky, and praise the Gods of ancient mythology, for Asenblut are back with their latest Viking/melodic death metal album, entitled ‘Die Wilde Jagd’ (The Wild Hunt). I ended  Continue Reading »

Artist: Black Dahlia Murder Album Title: Verminous Label: Metal Blade Records Date of Release: 17 April 2020 Regardless of whether or not you love a specific sub-genre of music, there will always be a band or three that are exceptions to the rule; bands that, for some reason, just don’t float your boat or get  Continue Reading »

Artist: Omega Infinity Album Title: Solar Spectre Label: Season Of Mist Date of Release: 27 March 2020 You’ll have to excuse the fact that I’m late to the party with this review, but after listening to it, I was sucked into a black hole in the far reaches of space. Or at least, that’s how  Continue Reading »

Artist: Testament Album Title: Titans Of Creation Label: Nuclear Blast Date of Release: 3 April 2020 2020 will already go down as the year in which I finally ditched the crazy notion that maybe I don’t like doom metal that much. With a plethora of cracking doom releases tickling my sweet spot, I could no  Continue Reading »

Some people have suggested that 2020 has been a poor year for music. Whilst I’d never dare to disagree with you, I do believe that this opinion will depend greatly on the genre or subgenre of music you happen to like. If you like a broad range of rock/metal styles, I happen to think that  Continue Reading »

Artist: Torchia Album Title: The Coven Label: Rockshots Records Date of Release: 27 March 2020 ““The Coven” is all about guitar riffs and solos, relentless drumming and ripping vocals.” So says the accompanying press release for the latest release from Finnish metal band Torchia. Once again, it is a new name on me but one  Continue Reading »

Artist: Sutrah Album Title: Aletheia Label: The Artisan Era Date of Release: 13 March 2020 What’s that? You’d like to be recommended something good within the progressive death metal subgenre? Well, it just so happens that I might have something for you. How serendipitous is that? The artist in question is Sutrah and they are  Continue Reading »

Artist: Welicoruss Album Title: Siberian Heathen Horde Label: El Puerto Records Date of Release: 27 March 2020 I listen to a lot of music whilst writing reviews and articles for this website. A very positive number of times, I find myself pleasantly surprised. Either by new names in the business or simply by the discovery  Continue Reading »

Artist: Myth Of I Album Title: Myth Of I Label: The Artisan Era Date of Release: 10 April 2020 Four words to either make you salivate or recoil in horror are these: Berklee College of Music. For some, these words are the stamp of quality and suggest a level of skill that most of the  Continue Reading »

Artist: Inno Album Title: The Rain Under Label: Time To Kill Records Date of Release: 28 February 2020 It is hardly surprising, given the sheer volume of music being released on 28th February 2020, that one nearly slipped through my fingers. And it would have been a bit of a travesty too, had this album  Continue Reading »