Spanish metal quintet Dark Embrace enfold all things heavy and dark, Dark Heavy Metal, its third album. The tongue-in-cheek album title is also appropriate as Dark Embrace churn out nearly 40 minutes of gothic tinged death metal. The title track ...
Album Review: Atrocity-Okkult III
German death metal group Atrocity complete its trilogy with Okkult III. Okkult treads the line between commercial accessibility and uncompromising brutality on this record. Songs will shift from grooving riffs reminiscent of Machine Head and Sli ...
Album Review: Obituary-Dying Of Everything
Six years have passed since legendary death metal band Obituary released its self-titled tenth record. The band's newest release, Dying Of Everything, is replete with Obituary's swampy riffs and John Tardy's guttural vocals. Unfortunatel ...
Album Review: Green King- “Hidden Beyond Time”
Finnish metal quartet Green King conjure metal nostalgia on its debut album, Hidden Beyond Time. Old school riffs and rhythms abound on this record. However, Time does not merely imitate classic metal and injects a modern dose to the album's eig ...
Top 10 Heavy Metal Albums of 2022
2022 proved another stellar year for heavy metal releases. This list features 10 of my favorite metal albums for the year. Rake-Off- Observing Madness ...
Album Review: “Til Klovers Takt” by Kampfar
Norwegian Black Metal outfit Kampfar provide a fiery offering for autumn with its ninth album, Til Klovers Takt: six tracks of chilling riffs and hellish blast beats. The opening salvo “Lausdans Under Stjernene” is a masterful fusion of dissonant ri ...
Album Review: “Rock Candy” by Orianthi
Guitarist Orianthi spreads her musical wings on Rock Candy, her fifth album. The eleven tracks on Candy are a diverse array of blues, pop and rock. “Illuminate (part1)” is a 57 second long instrumental that opens the record. Orianthi lays a blue ...
Album Review: “Ritual Violence” by Armed For Apocalypse
Californian sludge metal outfit Armed For Apocalypse return with its third proper album Ritual Violence. Ritual is the band's first LP in nine years, and its first release in four after the Palm Reader EP. This album is replete with walloping produc ...
Album Review: “The Erinyes” by The Erinyes
The Erinyes are an international metal supergroup comprised of three vocalists: Justine Daae of Elyose, Nicolette Rossellini of Walk In Darkness and Kalidia, and Mizuho Lin of Semblant. The band's name is derived from Greek mythology. The Erinye ...
Album Review: Red Rot- “Mal De Vivre”
Red Rot is comprised of vocalist Luciano George and guitarist Davide Tiso, former members of Ephel Duath alongside bassist Ian Baker and drummer Ron Bertrand. Mal de Vivre, the band's debut album, is an extreme collage of black metal, death metal, t ...