LONEWOLFCult Of Steel Massacre (2014)Rating: 7.5/10 Having formed in 1992 out of Grenoble in France, metalheads Lonewolf – in spite of a four-year break from 1996 to 2000 – have remained prolific throughout their career; although more so since reforming. Cult Of Steel is the seventh offering from these guys since 2002 debut March Into […]
OBITUARY Release Ninth Studio Album ‘Inked In Blood’ October 24th, 2014 Brandon, Florida-based death metal group Obituary issued ninth full-length studio album Inked In Blood on October 24th, 2014 in Germany, Benelux and Finland through Relapse Records. The label scheduled UK and general worldwide release for the 27th, with North American release taking place on […]
VOICES OF DESTINYCrisis Cult Massacre (2014)Rating: 7/10 Crisis Cult is the third album by a band that can best be described as Southern German epic Goth metal. Now, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’m not a big fan of a lot of contemporary metal – especially the sort that exudes so […]
HENOSISApotheosis Pulsio CLVI EP Blood Harvest (2014)Rating: 8/10 Henosis is a fearsome trio emerging from Viña del Mar in Chile and this five-track double seven-inch EP is their debut offering. The band consists of Perpetual Nothing (vocals / guitar), H.O.E.V. (bass) and Nathan Von (drums) who beneath hoods of darkness spout out haunting black metal […]
KULT OFENZIVYNauky různic Iron Bonehead (2014)Rating: 7.5/10 With a moniker that translates as “cult of the offensive”, Czech Republic black metallers Kult Ofenzivy returns with its third outing… and about time too! It was 2009 when this mysterious bunch released their sophomore opus, Radikální Ateismus – Tvůrcům Nadčlověka, which came just two years after 2007’s […]
CENTINEXRedeeming Filth Agonia (2014)Rating: 8.5/10 Ferocious dogs of war Centinex are back! It’s been eight years since any activity as the Swedish group disbanded in 2006, but now they have broken out from their musty coffins to batter us once again, and what a welcome return it is. Redeeming Filth offers ten brutal death metal […]
TORMENTERProphetic Deceiver EBM (2014)Rating: 8.5/10 Tormenter is an old school thrash quintet from the San Gabriel Valley in California who formed in 2007. The band released an EP in the form of Assault From Beyond The Grave in 2008, with a debut album, Pulse Of Terror, following in 2010. A second EP, Phantom Time, emerged […]
VEGAStereo Messiah Frontiers (2014)Rating: 5/10 Nick Workman (vocals), Marcus Thurston (guitar), Tom Martin (bass), Dan Chantrey (drums) and James Martin (keyboards) are the key players in Brit rock combo Vega and Stereo Messiah is the band’s third release. Vega is responsible for a high octane brand of clean-cut, concise hard rock which relies on heavy […]
DALTONPit Stop Frontiers (2014)Rating: 9/10 It’s been a 20-year break for Swedish rockers Dalton, so I guess there’s no time like the present to return. With AOR, hair metal, traditional metal, thrash metal blah blah blah seemingly as popular – but not as good – as it was back in the 80s, we’re now getting […]
NUNSLAUGHTER / WITCHTRAPSplit EP Hells Headbangers (2014)Rating: 7/10 I’ve literally lost track of the amount of split projects Nunslaughter has been involved in, but the latest spout of mayhem – with Colombian demons Witchtrap as company – is already the second split this year for the US death metallers (having teamed up with Chile’s Perversor […]
