HEXENBRETTDritte Beschwörung: Dem Teufel eine Tochter Dying Victims Productions (2024)Rating: 8.5/10 As a lover of heavy metal and the numerous spin-off genres it creates it can still be easy to become fed up or exhausted by certain trends. For example, an overload of swampy death metal, a plethora of same sounding 80s traditional metal, or […]

REVOLTINGNight Of The Horrid Xreem Music (2024)Rating: 7/10 With their ninth full-length studio album, Swedish death metal mob Revolting carves out another slab, which pretty much sums up the prolific yet unremarkable output of riffmeister Revolting Rogga (aka Rogga Johansson). Rogga has become more than a journeyman within the death metal scene, creating and being […]

INJECTOREndless Scorn Art Gates (2024)Rating: 7/10 With their fourth full-length assault since forming in 2012, Spanish thrashers Injector treat us once again with some excellent sci-fi artwork. Based around the Borderlands video game series, Injector’s albums have made for quite an interesting listen over the years and Endless Scorn is another solid entry to the […]

PENDULVMLlanos de Tumbas EP Manifectation Prods / Kuyen Producciones (2024)Rating: 8/10 Pendulvm is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist D. Anhedonist, a Chilean native who is sure to make waves with this debut EP featuring four tracks of death n’ doom. A couple of months prior to this EP a two-song demo was released and both of […]

WHITE TOWERNight Hunters Steel Gallery (2024)Rating: 9/10 The Greek metal arsenal gets stronger every day and a new outing from Thessaloniki-based White Tower will only bolster the national armour. After a brief intro entitled ‘Blood’, White Tower introduces its audience to their sophomore platter via the deliciously speedy ‘Total Evil’. This is about 80s sounding […]