I’ve been a fan of Der Weg Einer Freiheit since their inception back in 2009. Born out of Würzburg, Bavaria, their self-titled debut took the world of Black Metal by storm in 2010. Since then, they’ve released five amazing albums filled with Black Metal venom. Each one surpasses the other in terms of raw emotion […]

So I didn’t know this, but apparently Dripping Decay broke up? That didn’t last long, a literal handful of releases, including one full-length Festering Grotesqueries in 2023 and then an EP called Ripping Remains in 2024… now they’ve resurfaced as Ripping Remains. Go figure… band drama. Well, I don’t care about band drama. I care […]

Wow, just wow. I never know what to expect anymore when I dive into a new release. So when I decided to cover Tetragrammacide and their blistering EP Cyber-Tantric Paradigm of Radical Sri-Vidya (say that shit three times fast). Suffice to say, I’m blown the fuck away. This album is a complicated beast that needs […]

The Devil’s Bridge is the second full-length from Belgian Black Metal Kvlt Lvthn after a handful of splits and demos, including an EP, The Spider Goddess (2017), and their Eradication of Nescience debut full-length from 2016. This is a genuinely good Black Metal album. Its direction is clear, each foot stuck solidly in the 1st […]

I was trying to think of the perfect album to describe how my morning was going. I scrolled down and back up, looking at what I have, and I remembered that El Jefe had sent me the 20-minute reissued LP from these guys, them being Organ Dealer, and the album is Visceral Infection. This motherfucker […]

I recently covered a raw as fuck Black Metal album from Embers of Ouroboros, and now I have yet another incredibly raw, but better album than the Embers of Ouroboros. I’m talking about Blutsauger and their blistering debut full-length, Nocturnal Blood Tyrants. This album kept me company all day, it shredded my eardrums and froze […]

Back in 2023, an album was released that I absolutely loved. It was Khnvm’s Visions of a Plague Ridden Sky, and not only did I review it in these hallowed pages, it also made it onto my year-end list (shocker). Fast forward to 2025, and they are back with another bludgeoning album in the form […]

It’s rare for me to be left speechless over an album. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a feeling that I’m used to and certainly has been felt due to a few other releases this year. As I was listening to A Dark Poem Part I: The Shores of Melancholia, I started to wonder why I […]

It’s no secret that I love Helloween. They were the first German Power Metal band I ever heard, way back in 1986, with their amazing Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1 album. I was a hooked fish at that point. Power and majesty have always been the cornerstone of any Helloween album (well, maybe […]

It’s no surprise that I love Panzerchrist as much as I do. Their core sound has remained consistent throughout their storied career. Each album has stood as a testament to their brand of brutality that has remained solid since 1999’s Six Seconds Kill. Maleficium Part 2 is the follow up to last year’s Maleficium Part […]

Sweden’s most consistent bunch of Vikings need no introduction. Unleashed have been stalwarts of the scene since Johnny Hedlund was booted from Nihilist back in the late 80s. It worked out pretty well for him because 36 years later, Unleashed are poised to release Fire Upon Your Lands, their 15th full-length album. Hot off the […]

Sometimes it’s bloody difficult to find information about a band. Take Sowulo and their fifth (!) album: Niht. There’s nothing on Metal Archives about them at all, I mean, five albums in, you’d think there’d be something, right? Nope. So here I go into this with only the barest of information. It’s a good thing […]

Sometimes an album comes along that speaks to me on a deeply cerebral level. This has happened before; I tend to cover the weirdest shit I can find, usually crazy Folk Metal and Avant-garde Metal.Occasionally, though, I’ll cover instrumental powerhouse albums like Zombi and their fantastic Direct Inject album. Which brings me to Agropelter. A […]

Back in 2022, I did a review in these hallowed pages for an all-female international beast called Castrator. That album was Defiled in Oblivion, and it was one of my favorite releases of that year. Since that time, they’ve been doing… whatever bands do; I’m assuming playing shows and recording this album. What an album […]

I love raw as fuck Black Metal. Whether it’s one person or four, if it sounds like it was recorded on a Tascam four-track in someone’s basement studio, I’m all fucking there. I’ve covered some raw bands here before: Avmakt, Ad Infinem Omnia, and Horna, to name three, and Embers of Ouroboros are now firmly […]

A debut full-length a day keeps the depression away. Today I’m going to talk about Lenax and their brand spanking first album Infection. A great debut album makes a statement, a stern fist to the face of a genre established years ago, while also attempting to cement the band in the annals of Black Metal’s […]

Okay, so I saw the term Epic Folk Metal and I started thinking about Korpiklaani, Ensiferum, and Arkona (Rus). I was pretty on the mark with Korpiklaani more than the others, since Mandragora Titania (formerly Mandragora Thuringia) has created a magnificent and fun as fuck album. This isn’t their first album; they have three previous […]

Hello from the skronky, Jazzy as fuck Tech-Death rabbit hole. This one is a deep goddamn dive (no pun intended) into the most insane Tech-Death album I have heard this year so far, and I’ve heard a few mind-melting albums already, so that is saying something. Digressing in progress because ByoNoiseGenerator is one of those […]

The other day in the group chat, el Jefe posed the question of a band that sounds like modern Hypocrisy, and would any of us like to cover it…? Well, sign me the fuck up, brother! I eat that shit up! So here I am reviewing Lacabra and their self-titled, debut full-length and I have […]

Jazzy Tech-Death, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways… Quadvium (if you didn’t know already) is a project of Steve Di Giorgio (Testament, Death) and Jeroen Paul Thesseling (Obscura, Pestilence). They grabbed a guitar player along the way and a drummer: Yuma van Eekelen (Our Oceans, Pestilence) and Eve (Myth Of I, […]

Sargeist is one of the foundations of the Finnish Black Metal scene, a deadly force of Satanic wrath. They, along with Horna (Shatraug is associated with both Cult entities) and the unholy Behexen, form this Black Metal pyramid, a diabolical trinity if you will. Flame Within Flame is their sixth full-length following 2018’s Unbound, and […]

I have a process when I look for new Metal when promos drop: find the weirdest sounding shit possible. So if I see that a band is featuring banjos, a cellist, and a keyboardist… I’m fucking sold. Such is the case with New York’s Weeping Sores and their blistering 2nd album, The Convalescence Agonies. It’s […]

I’ve been trying to review this album for weeks now. Things kept getting in my way, however, and so now I’m able to sit down and put thoughts to page about this album that stands before me. I’m talking about French/Japanese depressive black metal duo, Enterré Vivant, and their heart-wrenching third album Azukï, from enigmatic […]

Occasionally, an album will hit me with such force that I’m compelled (not by the power of Christ) to put finger to keyboard and rave about it. This is the case with Trivax and their revival of violence on The Great Satan (directed at the Ayatollah Khomeini, who is depicted on the cover as Satan). […]

I’m going to admit that I didn’t like Midnight at first. I don’t know why they play this DIY style of Punk, Death Metal, and old school Thrash. Stuff I like and by this point they’re pretty fucking good at it. Athenar is a workhorse, putting out a slew of singles, splits, compilations, even a […]