CRAWLRituals Transcending Obscurity (2018)Rating: 6.5/10 This particular Swedish act has been around since 2014, and Rituals is the debut full-length outing from the band which is led by vocalist Joachim Lyngfelt who joined in 2017. Completing the line-up on this record are original members Martin Sjögren (guitar and bass) and Ämir Batar (drums). Now, before […]

ANCESTORLords Of Destiny Awakening (2018)Rating: 8.5/10 We’re back on another New Wave Of Old School Thrash Metal trip with this Chinese quartet, who began life in 2007. The combo has certainly been quiet though, releasing just one EP (Age Of Overload) prior to this in 2017, but Lords Of Destiny is a reasonable thrash album […]

BLACK TUSK – Taking Care Of Business Anthony Morgan August 2018 Black Tusk (l-r): Corey Barhorst, Andrew Fidler and James May Savannah, Georgia-based metal outfit Black Tusk began songwriting sessions in earnest for sixth full-length studio album T.C.B.T. at the end of 2017, with further sessions taking place in early 2018. Roughly a month to […]

MØRKETIDAPanphage Mysticism Werewolf (2018)Rating: 6/10 The country of Finland continues to produce high quality extreme metal acts, Laitila residents Mørketida being the latest team to explore the murky world of black metal. Excluding an intro and an outro, debut offering Panphage Mysticism brings six songs to the table. The trio of blackened souls behind such […]

CARNATIONChapel Of Abhorrence Season Of Mist (2018)Rating: 7/10 Entombed, Six Feet Under, Cannibal Corpse, Dismember, Carnage, Bloodbath… Throw them all into a blender and you get Carnation, a Belgium clan of ghouls who bring a frothing style of black ‘n’ roll grinding to their debut offering for Season Of Mist. It’s a familiar tale, admittedly, […]

DOROForever Warriors, Forever United Nuclear Blast (2018)Rating: 8/10 At the age of 54, Doro Pesch, the reigning queen of metal, is showing no signs of slowing down. Doro has been a warrior for the cause since 1980 when she joined Snakebite, her first band, and then went on to form Warlock in 1982. She became […]

CARNATION Release Debut Studio Album ‘Chapel Of Abhorrence’ August 17th, 2018 Belgian death metal group Carnation issued debut full-length studio album Chapel Of Abhorrence on August 17th, 2018 through Season Of Mist. The outing can be streamed in its entirety via YouTube below. Chapel Of Abhorrence was recorded at Project Zero Studio in Nijlen, Belgium. […]

DORO Releases 13th Studio Album ‘Forever Warriors, Forever United’ August 17th, 2018 Düsseldorf, Germany-based metal vocalist Doro Pesch issued her 13th full-length studio album Forever Warriors, Forever United on August 17th, 2018 through Nuclear Blast Records. The two-disc offering contains 19 regular tracks and six bonus songs. The track ‘All For Metal’ features guest vocal […]

DORO – Living Metal To The Fullest Anthony Morgan August 2018 Doro Pesch Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister, frontman of hard rock trio Motörhead, died on December 28th, 2015 at the age of 70 following a short battle with an extremely aggressive cancer. Lemmy’s passing acted as the catalyst for August 2018 double-album affair Forever Warriors, Forever […]

FLAMES OF WRATHHeaven Atop The Skulls Self-released (2018)Rating: 6.5/10 It’s so rewarding to find new thrash acts from places which aren’t exactly a hot-bed for the genre. With Flames Of Wrath, we travel to Tunisia for this admirable debut album from Younes Azouzi (vocals and rhythm guitar), Zayneb Korbi (lead guitar), Wacim “Flamme” Khayachi (bass) […]