Frightful is another extreme metal band hailing from Gdansk, Poland. Unlike most other extreme metal bands from Poland who plays black metal, Frightful is a fine, and relatively young, representative of Poland’s death metal scene. […]

Corpus Offal is the surviving core from the now-split underground death horde from Texas called Cerebral Rot. Under the old name they released two releases, Odious Descent into Decay and Excretion of Mortality, both receiving […]

The first few months of 2025 haven’t produced many new albums that capture my aural attention. Summer festival season is kicking off soon, hopefully there will be some new heavy rock albums soon. The upside: […]

The day before my birthday (48th) Switzerland’s Kerberos released their sophomore album entitled Apostle to The Malevolent. The band was founded in 2013, but first in late 2022 the line-up got completed. The band from […]

Recently I had a pleasure of speaking to Dødes kor (vocals & drums) from an Ukrainian band Grave Circles, and by that present this black metal horde to a wider metal audience, especially here in […]

The main reason for this year’s departure of Katatonia’s founding member Anders Nyström was the fact that, unlike his bandmate and co-founder Jonas Renkse, he wanted the band’s heavier roots to play a bigger role […]

Von Mollestein is the first band to be featured on these pages that comes from Dutch city of Nijmegen. It’s partly due to the fact that these guys were deeply hidden in the underground up […]

Stealth is an Italian metal band founded in 1997 by Ivan Lattanzi (vocals/guitars/gtr synth/DJ) and Daniele Gorbini (bass/background vocals). Later also Michele Cipolletta (drums) and Marco Guadagnoli (guitars/synth/background vocals) completed the line-up. They released several […]

Founded in 2021, Towards Hellfire is a three-piece black/death metal band from Poznań, Poland. Inquisitors Of Blasphemy is the moniker for Towards Hellfire’s second full-length shot. It comes three years after its debut predecessor, Death […]

Yes, you are exactly right – it’s another extreme metal act from Poland. Thus I’m thinking of Intra Nigrum, atmospheric black metal project from Poland. Their third album, entitled Logos, was released by Putrid Cult, […]

Vyr Muk is a Ukrainian Blackened Death Metal solo act, one that sprang into existance not long after the emergence of the current troubles in his native country. As such, it delves deep into themes […]

In many ways, Machine Head has basically been Robb Flynn’s band, but this became even more evident once the band parted ways with founding member Adam Duce in 2013, followed by departure of longtime members […]

Founded in 1991, deceased in 1995 and ressurrected in 2019, is the best way to introduce you to a German quartet called Poisoned Hestia. The band consists of the following musicians; Oliver Lynch (vocals), Jimmy […]

For the last two decades, majority of extreme metal albums were released in Poland. In that sense, Into Dark is no exception, as the band hails from Rzeszów, Poland. Into Dark is another black metal […]