SLAUGHTERED PRIESTBang Your Head For Satan Evil Spell / Undercover (2023)Rating: 8/10 This release from Athens, Greece-based Slaughtered Priest couldn’t be more metal with its cover artwork and album title. Recorded between 2019 and 2022, Bang Your Head For Satan is a volatile offering from an artist that’s been toiling away since 2007. This is […]
DIETH Premiere ‘Walk With Me Forever’ Music Video May 30th, 2023 International death / thrash metal band Dieth have filmed a music video for the track ‘Walk With Me Forever’. Directed by Oskar Szramka and starring notable Polish actors Jan Napieralski and Agnieszka Goździewicz, the clip can be viewed below. Bassist David Ellefson, who makes […]
JOHNNY THE BOY Unveil Music Video For New Track ‘Endlessly Senseless’ May 29th, 2023 English-Swedish black ‘n’ roll trio Johnny The Boy have released a music video for the track ‘Endlessly Senseless’. Created by Guilherme Henriques, the clip can be viewed below. Regarding the song, the band stated: “The constant and endless abuse of the […]
SWAMPTALESI Am The Death EP Self-released (2023)Rating: 7.5/10 Quite clearly the bass player JD Rodiguez is plucking an extracted spinal column for the duration of this debut outing. Around him, fellow lunatics Rafael Vivas (vocals), Briam Moreno (guitar) and Damn Fretus (drums) gargle blood, bash skulls and rip entrails for what is a sleaze-ridden heap […]
IMMORTALWar Against All Nuclear Blast (2023)Rating: 9/10 The landscape inhabited by Norway’s Immortal has always been cold, dark and ancient; a place of pristine snow, driving blizzards and black ice. These elements have always filtered into their music and so it’ll be no surprise to anyone that the tenth full length outing, War Against All, […]
GRAVERAPEHorrors Of Life Eternal Caverape (2023)Rating: 7/10 The Detroit, Michigan-based band with the chart-friendly moniker returns from the crypt for another dose of deadly death metal. In 2020 Graverape battered me senseless with their Exhuming Decay debut full-length, which was a brooding mix of 90s Swedish chainsaw nastiness but with doomier segments separated by melodious […]
TROLD Release Debut Studio Album ‘Der Var Engang…’ May 26th, 2023 Danish folk metal band Trold issued debut full-length studio album Der Var Engang… on May 26th, 2023 through Mighty Music. The outing can be streamed in its entirety via YouTube below. Der Var Engang… was mixed and mastered by Frederik Uglebjerg at Monorama studio […]
TRESPASSWolf At The Door From The Vaults (2023)Rating: 8.5/10 Mark Sutcliffe (vocals and guitar) is not a name that has embedded itself into the annals of UK heavy metal for some, but to those in the know he was the co-founder of Trespass – alongside Dave Crawte (guitar), Richard Penny (bass) and brother Paul Sutcliffe […]
IMMORTAL Release Official Lyric Video For ‘Return To Cold’ Track May 26th, 2023 Bergen, Norway-based black metal band Immortal have released an official lyric video for the track ‘Return To Cold’, which can be viewed below. Speaking about the song, Immortal mainman Demonaz said: “‘Return To Cold’ was the second song I wrote for this […]
METAL CHURCHCongregation Of Annihilation Rat Pak / Reaper Entertainment (2023)Rating: 9/10 After the passing in 2021 of vocalist Mike Howe I wondered if we’d ever hear another opus from Metal Church. Thankfully, the American band has returned from the dark, so to speak, and with a new singer in the form of Marc Lopes (Let […]
