Review: Dust Bolt – Mass Confusion
Jul 24
Party-hardy German thrashers Dust Bolt are back with another platter of old-school thrash. Luckily, these guys mean business enough to step outside the ‘rethrash’ boundaries here and there, making for a fun listen back to front.
Review: Vainaja – Verenvalaja
Jun 05
There are good reasons Finland’s Vainaja made it onto this site’s end-year list for 2014 with their debut album, Kadotetut. Now, the mysterious trio are once again cloaking themselves in a mist of meta-fictional folklore and offering an outing of cult-flavored metal in the shape of Verenvalaja, a solid if not especially forward moving album of engaging death and doom.
Review: Novembre – URSA
Apr 27
After a nine-year hiatus, Italy’s masters of melancholy are back with a new album. The wait was long, but thankfully there’s no rust to be found here, Novembre’s URSA is a beautiful work of melodic and progressive doom metal.
Review: Convulse – Cycle of Revenge
Apr 03
Finland’s Convulse have put out their fourth album in a career that has spanned a quarter century. They started as a traditional Scandinavian death metal act and with ‘Cycle of Revenge’ they have evolved into something…very far removed from that style. Trippy, mellowed-out, jamband death metal? Yes please.
Review: Alastor – Waldmark
Mar 13
Alastor may not be a big name in the black metal world, but it can’t be said that these old-school Austrians don’t know how to channel the true spirit of the Second Wave. Their album Waldmark is new, but everything about it is the right kind of old.
Review: Gadget – The Great Destroyer
Feb 22
If you like your rage in quick, furious, and insanely vicious bit-sized nuggets, the new album from Swedish deathgrind maniacs is probably right up your alley. It’s loud, violent, and heavy as hell. And we like it that way.
