Iron Fire – Beyond The Void (Album Review)
Staring into its deadlights… The story of Iron Fire is one of perseverance, as one of Denmark’s two premier millennial power metal exports (the other…
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Týr – Hel (Album Review)
The underworld rarely sounds so triumphant. The exploits, or sagas of the Viking age have been a fairly frequent topic of lyrical emulation in the…
Opprobrium – The Fallen Entities (Album Review)
The fall of mankind’s soundtrack. For those uninitiated into the world of the more extreme fringes of 80s thrash metal, where the early signs of…
Candlemass – The Door to Doom (Album Review)
The end finds a new beginning. Though many have come forth to construct their version of the colossal structure of impending woe that is epic…
Rhapsody Of Fire – The Eighth Mountain (Album Review)
The hero’s eye still beholds the distant horizon. The test of time has generally proven to be an easy pass for the high-impact, fantasy obsessed…
Beast In Black – From Hell With Love (Album Review)
The black-clad beast gets a sexier upgrade. The musical journey of Finnish songwriter and arguably ironic innovator Anton Kabanen has been, if nothing else, impossible…
Raven – Screaming Murder Death From Above: Live In Aalborg (Album Review)
This old raven still cries the loudest. Heavy metal, like a fine wine, tends to get better with age, or at least that’s what the…
Hecate Enthroned – Embrace Of The Godless Aeon (Album Review)
Macbeth’s downfall dons the black crown again. It is both a blessing and a curse to be relegated to the shadow of another, but that…
Onkel Tom – Bier Ernst (Album Review)
Beer is a crazy uncle’s best friend. To the uninitiated into the world of Germany’s grand thrash metal tradition, ergo anyone who has been living…
Malevolent Creation – The 13th Beast (Album Review)
Unlucky are they whom challenge this beast. Death metal is an art form that is undaunted by incidents of the former half of its name…
