GORGATRON Release Lyric Video For Title Track Of New EP ‘Agony Reborn’ October 25th, 2022 Fargo, North Dakota-based death metal band Gorgatron have released an official lyric video for the title track of their forthcoming Agony Reborn EP. Created by Axel Harvey Productions, the clip can be viewed below. Gorgatron issue four-track EP Agony Reborn […]
ELEGANT WEAPONS: Heavy Metal Supergroup Featuring Members Of JUDAS PRIEST, PANTERA And RAINBOW Sign Album Contract With Nuclear Blast Records October 25th, 2022 International heavy metal supergroup Elegant Weapons have signed an album contract with Nuclear Blast Records, revealing this development on October 25th, 2022. Guitarist Richie Faulkner, also of Judas Priest, issued the following […]
METALIANBeyond The Wall Temple Of Mystery (2022)Rating: 8/10 One of several bands to adopt this moniker, Canada’s Metalian are now onto their fourth full-length studio album since forming almost 20 years ago. This is some decent, high energy metal that is happy to play up to the early New Wave Of British Heavy Metal scene, […]
MORBIFICSquirm Beyond The Mortal Realm Me Saco un Ojo / Memento Mori / Headsplit (2022)Rating: 9/10 This was always going to be another big release – classy, squelching death metal straight from the festering, gurgling bowels of Finland. Morbific impressed greatly with their 2021 debut full-length Ominous Seep Of Putridity, and as expected Squirm Beyond […]
SEIZUREForbidden Tales Self-released (2022)Rating: 8/10 Forbidden Tales is the second thrash metal explosion from Los Angeles, California-based outfit Seizure, and from the off this is an effective opus dripping with polished melody and aggression as the band combines a Megadeth-styled sneer and complexity. The debut full-length offering Born In The Dark impressed me greatly last […]
RUBY THE HATCHETFear Is A Cruel Master Magnetic Eye (2022)Rating: 8/10 After a five year silence, grindhouse-a-go-go rock ‘n’ rollers Ruby The Hatchet are back in the saddle and ridin’ outta Hell with another rollicking record. It’s formulaic to an extent, it’s archetypal, but it’s good time rock music driven by lead single ‘Thruster’ which […]
UGLY KID JOERad Wings Of Destiny Metalville (2022)Rating: 6/10 Sounding more like AC/DC than AC/DC, California rockers Ugly Kid Joe announce their return after a seven year gap with their fifth full-length album and the stomping opening track ‘That Ain’t Livin’. However, the issue here is immediate – just who are Ugly Kid Joe? Missing […]
STRYPERThe Final Battle Frontiers (2022)Rating: 8.5/10 After all the stick they got back in the 80s, who would have thought that the yellow n’ black attack would still be churning out quality metal decades later? Not me, that’s for sure, but I tip my halo once again in praise of another chunk of sturdy Stryper […]
WITCH BLADEMånsken Dying Victims Productions (2022)Rating: 5.5/10 Dealing a swift blow to the senses, Swedish trio Witch Blade strikes like one of those long forgotten and dust-coated Euro metal acts from the mid-80s. But of course it’s all very much the rage now to mimic the doom-laden ethos of those long defunct artists who dabbled […]
EXHUMEDTo The Dead Relapse (2022)Rating: 8/10 It seems only right that the latest full-length slab of festering death metal from California’s Exhumed should emerge just days before Halloween, and as expected it’s the usual fright-fest of rancid, rabid and rampant metal. Exhumed is not a band to veer from its path, and like an out […]
