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Album Review: “III” by King Witch

June 7, 2025
by Jerel Johnson Album Reviews

Edinburgh trio-ish (Andrew Scott plays drums on this album) King Witch provide a potent blend of doom metal and rock on its aptly titled third release III. The record kicks off with the bombastic “Suffer In Life.” The chugging riffs and skipping tempo ...

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Album review: “Icons of Ruin” by Graceless

May 11, 2025
by Jerel Johnson Album Reviews

Dutch death metal newcomers, Graceless, hearken to the old school on its fourth outing, Icons of Ruin. The band does not replicate the music of bands lie Morbid Angel, Pestilence or Dismember to name a few. Rather, Icons is fairly straightforward, but ...

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Album Review: “Year of the Four Emperors” by Ex Deo

January 4, 2025
by Jerel Johnson Album Reviews

Canadian symphonic death metal band Ex Deo ring in the new year with EP Year of the Four Emperors. Four years have passed since the band's 2021 album Thirteens Year of Nero, and this new release literally picks up where Thirteen left off. Literally, a ...

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Album Review: “Dzikkuh” by Arka’n Asrafokor

June 12, 2024
by Jerel Johnson Album ReviewsReviews

Togo quintet Arka'n Asrafokor unleash its unique brand of metal on its sophomore release, Dzikkuh. This record is a blend of complex, tribal drumbeats, crushing riffs and infectious choruses. “The Truth” opens with this manic African percussion inters ...

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Album Review: “Myths of Fate” by Leaves’ Eyes

March 18, 2024
by Jerel Johnson Album Reviews

Myths of Fate is the ninth album by German symphonic metal quintet Leaves' Eyes. There is a fair degree of musical diversity on this album: we hear Nordic folk, death metal, tribal drums, and symphonic samples that make for an interesting listen witho ...

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Album Review: “Expedition One” by Metalite

January 9, 2024
by Jerel Johnson Album Reviews

Swedish power metal quintet Metalite kick off 2024 with its fourth album, Expedition One. Expedition is fairly epic in scope, as it is a concept album that spans 16 tracks. Musically, the album is dynamic and at times a bit simplistic. The title track ...

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Album Review: “Bloodmoon” by Kerrigan

September 18, 2023
by Jerel Johnson Album Reviews

Teutonic trio Kerrigan unleash a barrage of old school metal on its debut album, Bloodmoon. Clean vocals, anthemic choruses, blasts of speed metal and shredding guitar leads are abundant on this album. ”Eternal Fire” opens the albums in fiery fashion ...

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Album Review: “Make Them Beg For Death” by Dying Fetus

September 4, 2023
by Jerel Johnson Album Reviews

Dying Fetus return with another lesson in brutality on its ninth outing, Make Them Beg For Death. The Maryland trio's unique blend of technical death metal with a spoonful of groove is on full display. Album opener “Enlighten Through Agony” bursts thr ...

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Album review: “Bloodlines” by Pyramaze

June 21, 2023
by Jerel Johnson Album Reviews

Danish power metal quintet Pyramaze deliver a dynamic batch of metal on its seventh album Bloodlines. The title track is an instrumental that opens the album. It starts with a mysterious piano melody that is joined by string samples and bombastic drum ...

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Album Review: “Dream In Motion” by Kirk Windstein

January 5, 2020
by Jerel Johnson Album Reviews

Heavy metal luminary Kirk Windstein has spent the last 35 years gracing the world with the heaviest, crushing, earth splitting, melancholic metal on the planet as founder and front man of Crowbar. His aptly titled solo debut, Dream In Motion, retains the ...

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