25th January 2010
Californian KAOS’ latest release is an ode 80’s and early 90’s thrash metal scene with influences ranging as far back as the pioneers of the genre, as well as the bands form so called second […]
22nd January 2010
The beauty of exploring a ProgRock Records’ releases is not so much the fact that you are basically guarantied quality music, but rather the fact that you don’t know in what shape or form it […]
1st January 2010
Imagine a kaleidoscope, a huge kaleidoscope with a bright specter of colors. Now imagine this kaleidoscope transforming into a sonic experience rather than visual one. This is perhaps a decent way to try to explain […]
2nd November 2009
Just like the Metal Mind Productions’ re-release of Therapy?’s Never Apologize, Never Explain, this re-release doesn’t offer any bonus material, extended artwork or any highly noticeable improvements in remastered sound. Booklet is printed on a […]
2nd November 2009
Therapy?’s twelve album career is filled with interesting and unexpected twists and turns, both when it comes to music, success, creativity and balls. These Irishman’s career is have also been filled with ups and downs […]
12th October 2009
W.A.S.P. is the band that needs no longer introduction – as I believe it is enough to mention that the band has been playing what is now known as glam/horror/shock metal since 1982. ‘Crimson Idol’ […]
7th October 2009
Empyrean’s self-released EP consists of six songs that for some reason had a very nostalgic effect on me even though I cannot put a finger on it as to why. The Orlando based quartet presents […]
7th October 2009
There are many similarities between Baroness and Mastodon. Not so much because of the music they are playing, but mainly because these bands are some rare examples of the bands who from the start found […]
28th September 2009
One of the most important rock bands of the nineties is back with their first release in 14 years. Not many saw this happening after the band’s singer Layne Staley died of an overdose back […]
23rd September 2009
Twenty years after the band was formed, they have just released one of the best albums of their carrier. Now that’s a sentence you don’t hear often. For two decades Therapy? have tried it all; […]
20th September 2009
After celebrating twenty years in business last year with release of live CD/DVD The Anatomy Of Melancholy, Goth metal pioneers from England are ready with their twelfth studio album. Following an interesting trip into the […]
7th September 2009
Europe is not just the oldest continent on earth but also a name of a legendary Swedish band which has just released their eight studio album Last Look at Eden, the first album since 2006’s […]
1st August 2009
Thirty years after the release of the first Accept record, the man is still going strong. I guess everybody knows story about this highly influential metal band from Germany – the bake-ups, reunions and the […]
1st July 2009
Indukti is a Polish band, an instrumental band with singing, an band that is heavily inspired by others, yet sounds mostly like … well Indukti. The band is instrumental, but they have guest vocal performances […]
7th June 2009
Undisputed kings of progressive metal keep to their new-album-every-two-years routine, which is once again produced by the band’s own John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy. And this is where one of the problems of Dream Theater’s […]
29th October 2018
Last Day in Utter Diseases is the third full-length album by the Russian Melodic Doom and Death Metal quartet which originally saw the light of day two years ago. After the band went into hiatus […]
25th October 2018
Element marks the end of a three-year writing period for the Norwegian Black Metal quartet Orkan. Due to several personal reasons as well as similar hardships, Element did not see the light of day until […]
25th October 2018
I remember getting familiar with this band already in 2009 when they released their debut Vitamin R/Mycelium. Since two more full-length followed, namely 2010 The Growth and 2014 Momentum. A few years have passed and […]
23rd October 2018
The whole prog genre has always been characterized as a constantly evolving and vibrant. Past couple of decades in particular, have offered even more diversity to the genre whose overall narrative has always been, stepping […]
23rd October 2018
Eleven years ago five Finnish musicians banded together to form a band, one hell-bent upon joining the already rising Second Wave Black Metal scene. They did so the following year by releasing their first EP, […]
23rd October 2018
Of course, it’s a marketing move, when you hype your new album as “Our ‘Black Album’”, but there is so much nonsense in such a statement even before actually hearing the album. Nevertheless, Disturbed chose […]
23rd October 2018
Tales of Hate, Lust And Chaos is the new album of Peruvian (!) death ‘n’ roll project called Fervent Hate. Tales of Hate, Lust And Chaos consists of 10 very strong tracks that show the […]
20th October 2018
Helsótt, despite the very Old Norse word (meaning ‘fatal illness’ in case any of you out there either are a fan of viking history or collect random trivia) is in actuality an American quintet, founded […]
19th October 2018
Satanath is quite a peculiar band, to say the least. First of all, both the name of the one-man band (Satanath) as well as the name of every single one of the twenty tracks present […]
16th October 2018
Riven is a Belgian-based one-man band known for two other projects: Namely Svarthart (a Doom/Death Metal mix) and Verderf (Death Metal). Riven, his by default solo project, explores a darker, more powerfully down-trodden path than […]
