“Days Of The Lost” is a powerful debut from veterans who understand their history and want to stoke its embers rather than burn clichés. It is melodic death metal polished but unbowed, familiar but earnest, and at its best, deeply moving in its reclamation of sound.
Back in the days, I totally loved Parkway Drive – I’ve attended several show of their first european tours, and watched them in small to mid-size venues, and was rocking out to their excellent live show at festivals. But as time went on, I lost …
Marburg-based metalheads Knife released a three-track-EP via Dying Victims Productions. It features twelve minutes of raw, blackened speed metal, nailed down in one new tracks of cover songs of both Bathory and Venom. It comes in tape format, which I’m not a big fan of, …
Did you check out the long-awaited new record of Cave In? It received extremely positive reactions and reviews world wide. “Heavy Pendulum” is the first record without contributions by Caleb Scofield (who died in a car accident in 2018), but one wouldn’t notice the difference: …
Brutality Will Prevail have evolved into a force to be reckoned with, as their latest album “Misery Sequence”. They played a short headliner tour this month and proved their class on this once more.
Dagger Threat played a hometown show at Bahnhof Pauli last night and delivered a heavy show. Supporting Brutality Will Prevail on a short European Tour, the dudes knew how to fill 30 minutes with heavy-hitting hardcore. Check out their debut album “Gestaltzerfall”!
If you’re hailing from Sweden and earned a name as a musician in the heavy guitar-kind of scene, it may feel odd to never have played in a HM-2-band. Dunno if that theory holds true, but Mass Worship may prove it. The dudes around Claes …
Music-wise, my personal journey, socialisation, and (ongoing) transformation began with Swedish Death Metal. Thus, the Boss HM-2 played a critical role. And even though I discovered new genres and new favourites in the last twenty years, I’ll always love the buzzing sound of HM-2 (and …
I kinda liked “Guidance” und “Memorial”, the last two albums by Postrock heavyweights Russian Circles, but never loved them as much as “Empros” (which has been written eight years ago… time flies, folks) and their earlier works. The albums didn’t click with me, even though …
Did you check out “Devonian: Nascent”, the latest song off the upcoming The Ocean album “Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic”. Even though the song, which has Kataonia-head Jonas on guest vocals, clocks in at eleven minutes, it never lets down in intensity. The Ocean evolve their sound (as much …