German death metal trio, going under the moniker of Archaic Thorn, has been active on the local death metal underground scene since 2010. The unholy trio of CL (guitars), MF (vocals & bass) and TR […]

Hailing from the city of Gdańsk, Pandemic Outbreak is a death/thrash quartet founded in 2014. The band, comprises following four musicians; Mateusz Mencel (guitars and vocals), Mateusz Gorczyński (guitars), Michał Kotwicki (bass) and Dawid Guziałowski […]

One of the older releases landed on my desk relatively recently, but I can not just store it without telling a few words about it. Thus, I’m talking of Cabrakaän and their 2023 full-length entitled […]

Mysthicon is a Polish-based musical project, founded in 2015 by Vader, Lux Occulta, Hate and Батюшка members. The line-up of the band is comprised of; Adrian Mięsowicz (vocals), Grzegorz Kapłon (guitars), Szymon Hadała (guitars), Mateusz […]

Released a couple of months ago (CD, vinyl, and cassette formats) through Darkness Shall Rise Productions, Erevos is highly anticipated new album, and second overall, by a Greek black metal horde Penthos. Erevos contains almost […]

This year (2025) in progressive rock and metal found genre mainstays continuing to impress while relative underdogs and newcomers finally seized some of the spotlight. One of these is Orphaal – a French one-man solo […]

The first review of the new year is the RVH Project from The Netherlands. RVH Project was conceived in 2021 as the solo project of Dutch multi-instrumentalist Rick Van Heuzen (vocals, bass, backing vocals…). The […]

Founded in 2010 in Dresden (Germany), Gorleben is a five piece named after a municipality in Saxony, next to which an ill-famous radioactive waste storage facility is located. The band is playing a mixture of […]

Thrash metal legends’ forthcoming self-titled seventeenth studio album is also announced as their final album. Besides that it marks the band’s first album to feature Teemu Mäntysaari, who replaced Kiko Loureiro as lead guitarist in […]

House By The Cemetary, a death metal supergroup led by former Monstrosity and Vile vocalist Mike Hrubovcak, alongside Rogga Johansson from Paganizer and Ribspreader on guitars/bass and ex-The Project Hate’ Thomas Ohlsson on drums. With […]