HOLY MOSES Release Lyric Video For ‘Alternative Reality’ Track April 14th, 2023 German thrash metal band Holy Moses have released an official lyric video for the track ‘Alternative Reality’, which can be viewed below. Holy Moses issued 12th full-length studio album Invisible Queen on April 14th, 2023 through Fireflash Records, with distribution worldwide by Warner […]
OVERKILLScorched Nuclear Blast (2023)Rating: 8.5/10 Showing newer Metallica fans (if they’ll listen) what real thrash metal is, stalwarts of the scene Overkill unleash another bone-crushing platter daubed in typically green hue and rattling like a sack of bones. Scorched is the 20th outing from the New Jersey wrecking crew and as expected from the consistent […]
FAERIE RINGWeary Traveler King Volume (2023)Rating: 6/10 One could easily be forgiven for thinking that by the cover art alone that this is some mid-80s Euro metal throwback, but no, the wonderfully named Faerie Ring is very much on the stoner scale. Weary Traveler is the second album by this Evansville, Indiana-based four-piece that sort […]
ROTPITLet There Be Rot War Anthem (2023)Rating: 6.5/10 Just in case you weren’t weighed down enough by the current glut of murky death metal bands, here is another gore-soaked instalment. Let There Be Rot is the debut full-length outing from Rotpit who released a decent three-song demo, Into The Rotpit, in 2021. With lyrics such […]
HOLY MOSESInvisible Queen Fireflash (2023)Rating: 9/10 With a list of special guests as long as your arm, veteran German thrashers Holy Moses returns from the debris of its last opus, 2014’s Redefined Mayhem, and slams into our chest like a belligerent bulldozer. It’s a shame then that this will be the last opus by this […]
BLAZON RITEWild Rites And Ancient Songs Gates Of Hell (2023)Rating: 8/10 If you live near a castle then I suggest you take a visit, and while you’re there plug the new Blazon Rite album in and transport yourself back to images of chainmail, a rusty portcullis and majestic lands. Over the last few years Philadelphia, […]
METALLICA Release 11th Studio Album ‘72 Seasons’ April 14th, 2023 San Francisco, California-based heavy metal band Metallica issued 11th full-length studio album 72 Seasons on April 14th, 2023 through their own Blackened Recordings label. Frontman James Hetfield commented: “72 Seasons. The first 18 years of our lives that form our true or false selves. The […]
PUTRID YELLConsuming Aberration Pulverised (2023)Rating: 8/10 Suggesting that other commitments have gotten in the way, Chilean death metal clan Putrid Yell finally reveals its debut full-length album a decade since the band formed. Combing the expected South American rawness with a more unexpected 90s Swedish chainsaw gallop, this debut drags you headfirst into a shredder […]
OVERKILL Launch Music Video For Title Track Of New Album ‘Scorched’ April 14th, 2023 New Jersey-based thrash metal band Overkill have filmed a music video for the title track of their latest album Scorched. Directed by David Brodsky for My Good Eye, the clip can be viewed below. Overkill issued 20th full-length studio album Scorched […]
CZAKAN Release Second Studio Album ‘Unreal’ April 14th, 2023 German hard rock / melodic heavy metal band Czakan issued second full-length studio album Unreal on April 14th, 2023 through Pride & Joy Music. Unreal was produced and recorded by guitarist Oliver “OG” Güttinger at the band’s own Greenbox Studios, and mixed by keyboardist Tom Fein. […]
