SKID ROW Premiere ‘Resurrected’ Music Video November 29th, 2023 American heavy metal band Skid Row have filmed a music video for the track ‘Resurrected’. Directed and edited by Frank Gryner, the clip can be viewed below. Skid Row issued sixth full-length studio album The Gang’s All Here on October 14th, 2022 through earMUSIC. The Gang’s […]
HITTENWhile Passion Lasts High Roller (2023)Rating: 7/10 Five albums in and I’m still not quite hitting (excuse the pun) it off with these Spanish metal merchants. With a relatively new sticksman in the form of Willy Medina, Hitten remains a solid enough outfit which provides a hatful of fiery anthems, but it’s tried and tested […]
BULLET TRAUMAHunting Season EP Self-released (2023)Rating: 8/10 The promotional band photo I saw for these Finnish guys screams “crossover thrash” – the shorts, the sleeveless shirts, hi-top boots etc. – and the sound doesn’t disappoint either. Like a lot of bands of this ilk nowadays it would seem that the main inspiration is Power Trip. […]
DESTRUCTORBlood, Bone, And Fire Shadow Kingdom (2023)Rating: 8.5/10 I always thought it was a huge shame that Cleveland, Ohio-based thrashers Destructor, who formed in 1984, never went beyond the debut album stage first time round. Their cult 1985 gem Maximum Destruction never got the credit it deserved and was extremely overlooked at the time. It […]
MARCH TO DIETears Of The Gorgon No Remorse (2023)Rating: 8/10 Featuring members of Friends Of Hell, Solitary Sabred and Mirror, Cyprus / Greece-based March To Die is a band that channels Manowar from the off. Brothers Anastasios Danazoglou (bass) – who also appeared for Electric Wizard and is a renowned tattoo artist – and Alex […]
COVEN JAPANEarthlings No Remorse (2023)Rating: 8/10 This debut full-length length album from Tokyo’s Coven Japan has certainly taken a while to emerge from the shadows. The band originally formed in 2016 as Coven but altered their name slightly in 2019. A cluster of demos, singles and EPs have been issued since their inception and now […]
CRUCIAMENTUMObsidian Refractions Profound Lore (2023)Rating: 8/10 For a band that formed in 2007, to have only have two full-length albums to their name just isn’t enough. The eight year gap between this latest opus and 2015 debut Charnel Passages feels like a cold black void, and in that time only guitarist Dan Lowndes remains from […]
HIGH SPIRITSSafe On The Other Side High Roller (2023)Rating: 5/10 Right, let’s cut to the chase, the first track (‘In The Moonlight’) on this album sounds like The Hellacopters tune ‘Soulseller’. Okay, so now I’ve got that out of the way let’s concentrate on the rest. Safe On The Other Side is the fifth full-length […]
SILVERBONESBrethren Of The Coast Stormspell (2023)Rating: 7.5/10 Breaking their seven year silence, Italian metal clan Silverbones releases its second full-length platter that, just like label mates Blazon Stone, tends to worship at the altar of German pirates Running Wild. You’ll also hear flashes of Gravedigger, and so what you’re basically getting here is anthemic Teutonic […]
EMERALD RAGEValkyrie Stormspell (2023)Rating: 7/10 Dripping with mythology once again, Akron, Ohio-based metalheads Emerald Rage arm themselves with trusty steel for another round of fantasy. This is bombastic metal for those who like to sit aloft on the grand throne and stare down at mere mortals. Throw this in the cauldron with the likes of […]
