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Year: 2025Label: Rebellion Records With their third album, US-Dutch Live By The Sword keep on consolidating their sound, and staying away from anything easy to pigeonhole. At this stage, the band exist in a liminal zone between metal and oi!, … Continue reading LIVE BY THE SWORD: The Pagan Pantheon
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Just one look at the cover, and you know: you’re in for some of Zoharum weirdness. And when the promo sheet discusses everything but the music, you can be certain of it. Just about the only thing … Continue reading ZENIAL: Foil Punk
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum We reviewed Polish That’s How I Fight’s Movement Three some time ago (here) with no uncertain words of praise. The conceptually enticingly vague album convinced us with its cosmic, serene and psychedelic beauty. As such, we welcomed … Continue reading THAT’S HOW I FIGHT: Movement Three Continuum
Year: 2025Label: self-released No, this isn’t the Italian cult metal band Bulldozer nor any of the other numerous bands of the same name, nor Spanish Bulldozer BCN – this is The Bulldozer from Finland. As far as I can tell, … Continue reading THE BULLDOZER: Battle Scars
Year: 2025Label: Theogonia Records Greek black metal act Lloth have a long and somewhat winding history. The group was originally formed in 1995, and released a single demo in 1997. After that, they changed their name to Astarte, who were … Continue reading LLOTH: Archees Legeones
Year: 2025Label: Hellprod Records/Murder Records Portuguese black metal. Whilst for most it may not ring a bell, for those who do, it usually associates to exceedingly raw, lo-fi and abrasive stuff. Ugly stuff, and a bit of an acquired taste. … Continue reading VETUS SANGUIS: Capítulo I – Dimensão Horrenda
Year: 2025Label: In Illo Tempore/Gladivs Records Taking their name from a short sword used by ancient Greeks, multinational Xiphos (not to be confused with the other Xiphos we’ve covered before) appropriately put their thematical focus on Ancient Greece. Though there … Continue reading XIPHOS: The Age Of Alexander
Year: 2025Label: Napalm Records British extreme metal legend Cradle Of Filth’s career has been a weird one. Up until and including Midian (2000), they were on a serious roll without so much as a single miss. Midian is actually a … Continue reading CRADLE OF FILTH: The Screaming Of The Valkyries
Year: 2025Label: Bad Billy Records The 15th of March, 2008. That’s when I first heard The Bullet Biters and knew this was a band worth keeping tabs on. They were still a young band back then, with just a single … Continue reading THE BULLET BITERS: Napalm Over The Rainbow
Year: 2024Label: Napalm Records Fans of German alternative, dark and gothic tinged rock might be familiar with a band called Lord Of The Lost. I, not being a particular fan of such music, am not. But even so, Chris Harms … Continue reading CHRIS HARMS: 1980
Only Death Is Real 