Hard Charger are from Canada and play crossover/thrash metal.
Chrome Lord was a short and confident blending of the hardcore and thrash styles, showing a band who knew what they were doing, but just needed a few tweaks here and there to truly make an impression.
So how have they done on this release? Well, the sound Continue reading “Hard Charger – Bad Omens (Review)”
Sacramental Blood are a brutal death metal band from Serbia. This is their début album.
This is savage, ferocious death metal that wastes no time in establishing its presence with blast beats, daemonic growls and lightspeed riffs. Yes, Sacramental Blood have arrived.
The vocalist spews forth powerfully delivered growls that seem to Continue reading “Sacramental Blood – Ternion Demonarchy (Review)”
This is the second album from Nervosa, who are a Brazilian thrash metal band.
Nervosa play their thrash metal with razorblade intent and an equally sharp delivery.
This is not for their faint-hearted, as their take on thrash is definitely of the more extreme Continue reading “Nervosa – Agony (Review)”
This is the début EP from Unothera, who are a melodic doom/death band from the Netherlands.
This EP consists of 5 tracks – two actual songs and three piano movements.
The songs take influence from the likes of My Dying Bride, Katatonia and Paradise Lost, with sorrowful atmosphere aplenty. Keyboards are also used to add depth to the misery that the band exude, and I think these are particularly Continue reading “Unothera – Broken (Review)”
This is the début album from this US metallic hardcore band, Poison Headache.
Featuring an album cover that immediately grabs the attention, this is a band that fuses hardcore and metal into an ugly ball of condensed violence.
Hearing this description, and knowing that there is an ex-member of As I Lay Dying Continue reading “Poison Headache – Poison Headache (Review)”
This is the fourth album from this black/Pagan/folk metal band Thy Worshiper.
I’ve been following this band for a while now, and their individual take on black metal is always a very welcome listen. Both Czarna Dzika Czerwień and Ozimina were very enjoyable, and it seems on their latest album Klechdy they’ve really Continue reading “Thy Worshiper – Klechdy (Review)”
This is the fifth album from this US black metal band.
Dawn of Ashes play modern, professional, industrial black metal with plenty of keyboard/electronic enhancements. Kind of coming across as a mix of Dimmu Borgir, Deathstars and Neurotech, this is heavy, rhythmic and quite catchy. Continue reading “Dawn of Ashes – Theophany (Review)”
This is the third album from Terra Tenebrosa, a black metal band from Sweden.
Terra Tenebrosa are definitely one of the stranger, more imaginative bands out there at the moment. This is experimental, avant-garde metal with a blackened side and all manner of sinister and misanthropic vibes.
If you take a mutated, warped black metal core, and add in Continue reading “Terra Tenebrosa – The Reverses (Review)”
Wren are a post-metal/sludge band from the UK. This is their latest EP.
We know Wren from their very enjoyable split with Irk, and I was eager to catch up with their latest release to see how the band are progressing.
The answer seems to be that they are progressing very well, thank you.
These tracks continue to Continue reading “Wren – Host (Review)”
Mortillery are a thrash metal band from Canada. This is their third album.
Mortillery play old-school thrash metal, influenced by the Bay Area scene and with an aggressive hardcore undertone.
The singer swings between rabid shouting screams and powerful cleans, somewhere between that of Kreator and Death Angel. Her voice has quite an individual quality to it and she ably Continue reading “Mortillery – Shapeshifter (Review)”
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