TSJUDER Release Music Video For ‘Helvegr’ Title Track August 14th, 2023 Norwegian black metal band Tsjuder have released a music video for the title track of their latest album Helvegr, which can be viewed below. Tsjuder issued sixth full-length studio album Helvegr on June 23rd, 2023 through Season Of Mist. Helvegr was mixed and mastered […]
SPEEDERSpeeder EP Self-released (2023)Rating: 5.5/10 Bland band name, crap album cover, silly song titles and yet here I am partying along to such woeful trash as ‘Speed Metal Militia’, ‘Underage Intoxication’ and ‘Shut Up And Gimme A Beer’. The humour, if you want to call it that, is lost on me. In fact, the whole […]
BEHAVIOURRex Imbecilic Best Foe (2023)Rating: 7.5/10 In 1989 a Brazilian thrash metal band named Behavior was created. Two years later a demo entitled Infested Brains was issued into the underground and a year later was followed by another tape, Murder’s Picture. Sadly, these demos made little impact outside of Brazil and by 1994 Behavior had […]
KING KOBRAWe Are Warriors Cleopatra (2023)Rating: 6.5/10 Featuring new guitarists Carlos Cavazo (ex-Quiet Riot) and Rowan Roberstson (ex-Dio), Los Angeles, California-based melodic rockers King Kobra are back with a new studio album, their first for a decade. With Paul Shortino (vocals), Johnny Rod (bass), Carmine Appice (drums) providing the spine of instrumentation, I’m surprised that […]
CONEY HATCHPostcard From Germany EX1 (2023)Rating: 8/10 Canadian rockers Coney Hatch have always been somewhat of a commercial mystery to me. Back in the 80s the band released three tidy efforts – Coney Hatch (1982), Outa Hand (1983) and Friction (1985) – then in 1992 a compilation of those before a fourth outing, Four, in […]
CYSTICPalace Of Shadows Chaos (2023)Rating: 8.5/10 Just by gazing at the cover art of this debut album from Seattle, Washington-based outfit Cystic, one can smell the salty air as grey, eroded skulls wash up on the gloomy shore. Wisps of haunting mists, a distant reek of dampness suddenly and unexpectedly blown away by the live […]
LANCERTempest Fireflash (2023)Rating: 8.5/10 It’s been a long six years since Swedish metallers Lancer caressed and corrupted our ears with their third full-length album Mastery. Hard to believe also that in that time Lancer has appointed a new vocalist, Jack L. Stroem (Vandor), who joined in 2019, as did drummer Pontus Andrén. The only original […]
STRIDENTParanoia Of The Tyrant Self-released (2023)Rating: 8/10 Straddling the line between contemporary crunch and vintage Anthrax chugging, Israeli act Strident delivers its more than steady third full-length album, Paranoia Of The Tyrant. Equipped with enough serrated edges to administer a plethora of paper cuts, these guys have found a healthy mix of the catchy and […]
SORROWDeath Of Sorrow Xtreem Music (2023)Rating: 8.5/10 This New York band, that formed in 1988 as Cyanic Death, before changing their name to Apparition the same year and then settling on the moniker of Sorrow, were responsible for two overlooked cult death / doom gems. In 1991 they issued their EP Forgotten Sunrise which was […]
NECROKINESISA Force Made Flesh Self-released (2023)Rating: 8/10 Recorded, mixed, mastered and produced by Michael Richards at Dublin’s Trackmix, one man Irish band Necrokinesis – the brainchild of Adrian Foley – knuckles down for a second full-length album. If you don’t know Necrokinesis then I highly recommend A Force Made Flesh if you like the mix […]
