Label: Season of Mist / Release date: 17th July, 2026 94% Emptiness - Nowhere Speaks - 94% How many Belgian metal acts can you name without looking it up first? Enthroned was the only one […]

Label: High Roller Records / Release date: 6th February 2026 80% Cyclone - Known Unto God - 80% Legendary Belgian thrashers Cyclone reformed, after 35 years long hiatus, releasing their first new music in a […]

Label: Self-Released/Visceral Circuitry Records / Release date: 30th January 2026 65% Peasant God - Null - 65% Null is my first encounter with a doom/industrial/sludge band going under the moniker of Peasant God. The band […]

Label: Neckbreaker Records / Release date: 23rd January 2026 75% Casket – In the Long Run We Are All Dead - 75% Casket is back! Hereby I’m reffering to the German death metal band, formed […]

Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions / Release date: 2nd February 2026 83% Old Wainds - Scalding Coldness - 83% Old Wainds is a dark nordic black metal from the icy wastes of Murmansk. As many […]

Label: G.U.C. / Release date: 6th February 2026 70% Bitterness – Hallowed Be the Game - 70% ‘Bitterness’ means ‘unhappiness’, but since 2001 it also stands for ‘old-school thrash metal made in Ulm, South Germany’. […]

Label: AOP Records / Release date: 2nd January 2026 77% Ellende - Zerfall - 77% Ellende (the band’s name can be translated as ‘being in exile’, but also as ‘miserable’) is a post black metal […]

Label: Testimony Records / Release date: 13th March 2026 72% Messticator – Total Mastery - 72% Germany’s death/thrash trio Messticator is a relatively new act formed with former and ex- members of Embers of Flesh […]

Label: Rotten to the Core Records / Release date: 11th April 2026 70% Gore Force V - Annus Porcus Oinkus - 70% A few weeks ago I conducted an interview with Dominique Michiels from the […]

Label: Soulseller Records / Release date: 6th February 2026 77% In Aeternum - …Of Death and Fire - 77% After years of inactivity, Soulseller Records proudly presents the new studio album from a Swedish black/death/thrash […]

Label: My Kingdom Music / Release date: 2nd April 2026 26% 30 Denari – Kindly Plotting for Riot - 26% As far as genres go, Dark Electro is one I like keeping an eye on. […]

Label: Ear Music / Release date: 10th April 2026 85% Long Distance Calling - The Phantom Void - 85% Throughout their twenty-year career, the (mostly) instrumental German progressive rock band Long Distance Calling have continually […]

Label: Self released/Solid Rock Pr. / Release date: 13th March 2026 75% Kingsphere - Inertia - 75% Kingsphere was established in early 2021 in southern Poland. The band from Rybnik released their self-titled debut in […]

Label: Soulseller Records / Release date: 6th February 2026 80% Ensanguinate - Death Saturnalia (with temples below) - 80% Formed in 2020, Ensanguinate is Slovenia’s putrid entry into the occult black/death metal grimoire of old, […]