SKID ROWThe Gang’s All Here earMUSIC (2022)Rating: 8/10 Whether you’re a Skid Row fan or not, this long-awaited sixth full-length opus was always going to cause a stir. Since the departure of mercurial frontman Sebastian Bach in 1996 the New Jersey rockers have existed as a somewhat maligned act, never being quite able to make […]
BLOOD PYTHONAcheron Self-released (2022)Rating: 8.5/10 Like some long lost 80s metal gem, the debut full-length from Norway’s Blood Python debut creaks like the hinge of a rusted portcullis and then, once oiled by dragon fire and warrior blood, marches headlong into the forest to do battle with all manner of demons and phantoms. From its […]
MAJESTIC MASSDestroys Minds & Rapes Souls Helter Skelter Productions (2022)Rating: 6.5/10 Combining a raw black metal rasp with doom metal, Majestic Mass issues its second sermon, the band’s first for four years. These Danes daub their altar in a strange brew of blackened heavy metal mixed with doomier aspects, circa Death SS and the likes. […]
AURORA BOREALIS Launch Music Video For New Track ‘Founding Fathers Of Deception’ October 14th, 2022 Maryland-based death metal band Aurora Borealis have filmed a music video for the track ‘Founding Fathers Of Deception’, which can be viewed below. Aurora Borealis issue eighth full-length studio album Prophecy Is The Mold In Which History Is Poured on […]
KONQUESTTime And Tyranny No Remorse (2022)Rating: 8/10 Wrapped up in a mid-80s Swedish design, Italy’s Konquest unleashes its second album with a riff on opening instrumental ‘Relativity’ not too far removed initially from Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Crazy Train’ before the Tuscany combo drifts with a New Wave Of British Heavy Metal-styled ramble. It’s all familiar yet […]
HYDRA VEINUnlamented Back On Black (2022)Rating: 5/10 Oh how I wanted to kneel and worship at the altar of the returning Hydra Vein. Way back in 1988 I picked up the superb Rather Death Than False Of Faith debut from these UK thrashers at the legendary Shades Records store in London. The garish pink cover […]
RIOT CITYElectric Elite No Remorse (2022)Rating: 8/10 Back with a bang, Calgary, Alberta-based rockers Riot City enters the fray with full-length album number two, and it’s another expected sizzler hell-bent on tearing off your ears and gutting you like a fish. With the modern metal scene over-crowded with sound-a-likes and nostalgia clones, Riot City seems […]
VACUOUSDreams Of Dysphoria Me Saco un Ojo / Dark Descent / F H E D (2022)Rating: 9/10 Proof again that UK death metal scene is on the rise comes via the churning depths of London leper colony Vacuous. This shady bunch of gloom-mongers cast their spell of despair in 2020 with a cold, despondent and […]
PILGRIM OF FIREAn Age Of Penance And Oblivion Naturmacht Productions (2022)Rating: 8.5/10 Although this band from Derbyshire in England has been in existence for five years they seem like a new entry to the doom metal charts – not that there is a chart! Even so, this impressive debut full-length is sure to crack the […]
IMPRECATION Stream Entire ‘In Nomine Diaboli’ Album October 14th, 2022 Texas-based death metal band Imprecation issued third full-length studio album In Nomine Diaboli on October 14th, 2022 through Dark Descent Records. The album can be streamed in its entirety below. In Nomine Diaboli marks the final recorded of late drummer and founding member Ruben Elizondo, […]
