King’s X – Three Sides of One InsideOut Music 8,0/10,0 Brief: Lifelong friends communicate in a language of their own peppered with shared memories, inside jokes, and dreams fulfilled. King’s X partake in…
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Category: Reviews
Hexis – Aeternum
Hexis – Aeternum Debemur Morti Productions 8,5/10,0 Brief:Formed 2010 and known for a hard-touring DIY approach which has seen them play over 800 shows to-date, Copenhagen blackened Hardcore road-warriors HEXIS arrive on DMP…
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Megahertz – Burning Like Hell
Megahertz – Burning Like Hell Mog Records 7,0/10,0 Brief:Banda formada em 1985 com diversas experiências em lançamentos fonográficos: demo-tapes, split, single, ep e álbuns. O Megahertz é uma das mais antigas e expressivas…
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Bloodbath – Survival of the Sickest
Bloodbath – Survival of the Sickest Napalm Records 6,0/10,0 Brief: It’s time for another deep dive into the horrors of mortality and the foul side of the supernatural. It’s time for “Survival Of…
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Conan – Evidence of Immortality
Conan – Evidence of Immortality Napalm Records 8,5/10,0 Brief: Hear the roar of battle. Smell the stench of spilled blood. A thousand heads piled high like a grim mound of suffering. England’s doom…
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Abrams – In The Dark
Abrams – In The Dark Small Stone Records 8,5/10,0 Brief:Initially seeking to fuse melodic hooks with dissonance, Abrams began in 2013 in Denver, Colorado, with guitarist/vocalist Zach Amster and bassist/vocalist Taylor Iversen. Later…
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Arch Enemy – Deceivers
Arch Enemy – Deceivers Century Media Records 4,0/10,0 Brief:If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that we need regular, jolting doses of heavy fucking metal to keep us on the…
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Moonshade – As We Set The Skies Ablaze
Moonshade – As We Set The Skies Ablaze Self-Released 8,5/10,0 Brief:Hailing from Portugal, the Moonshade project aspires to reshape the current musical zeitgeist by achieving a balance between the epic and the extreme…
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Ithaca – They Fear Us
Ithaca – They Fear Us Hassle Records 9,0/10,0 Brief:Ithaca are one of the most exciting and vital voices in the UK heavy scene currently. Formed out of a mutual love of metallic hardcore…
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Amon Amarth – The Great Heathen Army
Amon Amarth – The Great Heathen Army Metal Blade Records 7,0/10,0 Brief: From pole to pole and sea to sea, AMON AMARTH are undisputed kings of Viking heavy metal. Formed in Tumba, Sweden,…
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Krisiun – Mortem Solis
Krisiun – Mortem Solis Century Media Records 7,0/10,0 Brief: Brazil’s kings of death metal Armageddon Krisiun launch their new album, Mortem Solis, via Century Media Records. For the group’s 12th album, the trio…
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Mantar – Pain Is Forever and This Is the End
Mantar – Pain Is Forever and This Is the End Metal Blade Records 9,0/10,0 Brief: German metal duo and recent Metal Blade Records signees, MANTAR, unleashed their scathing new full-length, Pain Is Forever…
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Tuscoma – Gu-cci
Tuscoma – Gu-cci Landmine Records 8,5/10,0 Brief: Formed in 2018, TUSCOMA quickly crafted a reputation of delivering the most intense live show you could attend. The hotly anticipated debut Arkitecturenominus and follow-up record…
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Stick To Your Guns – Spectre
Stick To Your Guns – Spectre Pure Noise Records 9,5/10,0 Brief:Stick to Your Guns is an American hardcore punk band from Orange County, California. Members of the band include Jesse Barnett (vocals), Andrew…
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Abaddon Incarnate – The Wretched Sermon
Abaddon Incarnate – The Wretched Sermon Transcending Obscurity Records 7,5/10,0 Brief:Having been active since the ’90s, Irish grindcore/death metal legends have only perfected their sound over the years, creating a quintessential blend of…
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Paganizer – Beyond The Macabre
Paganizer – Beyond The Macabre Transcending Obscurity Records 8,0/10,0 Brief:Swedish death metal giants Paganizer have taken their time to come up with their most mature album till date. They’ve honed their sound, become…
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Memphis May Fire – Remade In Misery
Memphis May Fire – Remade In MiseryRise Records8,5/10,0 Brief: Memphis May Fire makes anthems for the broken. The four-piece rock band channel a generation’s worth of angst, frustration, and pain, with a focused…
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Future Palace – Run
Future Palace – RunArising Empire8,5/10,0 Brief: The Berlin post-hardcore trio Future Palace are back with full force. Their first single Paradise manifests a profound musical development with a much more massive sound –…
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Cabin Boy Jumped Ship – Sentiments
Cabin Boy Jumped Ship – SentimentsAFM Records8,0/10,0 Brief:Cabin Boy Jumped Ship hail from the heart of England and are one of the hottest newcomers of the last years. They fortify their special position…
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Hollow Front – The Price of Dreaming
Hollow Front – The Price of DreamingUNFD Records8,0/10,0 Brief: Hollow Front is a progressive metalcore/post-hardcore band from Grand Rapids in Michigan. “‘The Price of Dreaming’ is about the sacrifices made in order to…
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Sickseed – Goregeous
Sickseed – GoregeousSelf-released8,0/10,0 Brief: Sickseed is a 5 piece metal band from Denmark. The band has experimented with different genres since the early 2000’s until present day. The new style is a blend…
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The Vision Ablaze – Embers
The Vision Ablaze – EmbersPrime Collective7,5/10,0 Brief: Copenhagen-based melodic metal trio THE VISION ABLAZE, are back and ready with their sophomore album ‘Embers’. Since the addition of vocalist Tim Nederveen in 2017, the…
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Hanging The Nihilist – Prophetic Blasphemy
Hanging The Nihilist – Prophetic Blasphemy Prime Collective 8,5/10,0 Brief:Danish deathcore band HANGING THE NIHILIST are back and ready to present their debut full-length ‘Prophetic Blasphemy’ – an album filled with breakdowns and…
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Yatra – Born Into Chaos
Yatra – Born Into Chaos Prosthetic Records 7,5/10,0 Brief: Maryland-based death metallers YATRA resume their savage assault on new album, Born into Chaos. The band’s fourth—their first for Prosthetic Records—album sees the power…
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