Album Reviews

International progressive death metal four-piece VoidCeremony returns with their follow-up release 'Threads of Unknowing' out since April 14th, 2023. The band consists of renowned members from U.S. and Australian death metal bands like Ascended Dead, StarGazer, and Chthe’ilist. Three years after releasing their first studio album 'Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel' VoidCeremony conveyed a broad-ranging and highly technical skills to their jazz-infusion death metal style.
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California’s progressive death metal/grindcore five-piece Cattle Decapitation is back with a brand-new album “Terrasite” out on May 12th, 2023 via Metal Blade Records. The tenth endeavor represents significant sonic complexity and tracks in hyperspeed. While the previous album “Death Atlas” had a theme of apocalyptic atmosphere, the latest opus provokes such visions interpreted in the melodic direction of death metal/grindcore. The lyrical contents take place in an urban world and prophesize scenarios of death and destruction, Cattle Decapitation’s line-up is fronted by vocalist Travis Ryan, rhythm guitarist Belisario Dimuzio, lead guitarist Josh Elmore, bassist Olivier Pinard, and drummer David McGraw.
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Redemption is a band that has been already around in the metal scene for over twenty years. Really never followed this band, untll now as a friend told me to check out this new album 'I Am The Storm'. Nick van Dyk is the main songwriter and has the ability to express himself through music with on the one hand melancholic and on the other hand hopeful melodies. With Tom Englund ( Evergrey ) as the new singer who replaces the even more iconic Ray Adler from Fates Warning, Redemption shows us that Tom is the right man for the right job.
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With the release date on April 7, 2023, Powerwolf was just in time for the Christian Holiday Easter to release their new album 'Interludium'. On this album we will find 6 new tracks and 4 rare tracks that were previously released, but only on certain limited edition versions or only in certain regions. Now those are all together on one album.
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Norwegian black metal outfit Mork returns with the sixth album 'Dypet' out since March 24th, 2023 via Peaceville Records. As a result of hard work and dedication, mastermind Thomas Eriksen created a legacy of his fine craftsmanship proving to be one of Norway’s prime musicians. Mork’s musical style displayed the raw and organic formula of old-school black metal. These traits were refined throughout the years and for this reason 'Dypet' reflects the quality that holds classic characteristics.
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Switzerland’s Aara brings its third concept album titled “Triade III: Nyx” and boasts impressive performance and well-crafted compositions. Less than a year after releasing their second entry of the trilogy "Triade II: Hemera", the Swiss trio explores themes of the vintage novel "Melmoth the Wanderer" by the Irish writer Charles Maturin. The sonic work of the three members Berg (guitar, bassist, and keyboardist), Fluss (vocals, lyrics), and J. (drums) have compiled a succinct song craft, although much of the fat has been cut from the composition of the fifth album spanning 40 minutes.
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Germany’s black metal quintet Thron has scaled its sound to come to the forefront in the black metal scene. The band was formed in 2015 and released three albums with “Dust” their fourth album which seems never to lose its abrasiveness and aggression. Containing eleven tracks with a total runtime of fifty-five minutes? Thron congeals its musical cohesiveness to the point that each track is manifestly honed.
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Swedish death doomsters Runemagick have been bringing the doom since the early nineties. In their earliest incarnation, they were pretty much a straight-up death metal band with a particular penchant for Bolt Thrower. Over the years and specifically since the self-explanatory "Darkness Death Doom” record they slowed down their pace and moved much closer to the lumbering slab of death doom they became notorious for in the first decade of the millennium with excellent album like "On Funeral Wings", "Envenom" or "Invocation of Magick".
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Five years after debuting their EP 'First Sermon' Icelandic black metal act Úlfúð has unleashed its first studio album on March 17, 2023, via Dark Descent Records. By all means, the sequel truly delivers an incredible song structure, atmosphere and thundering riffs that are meticulously crafted by the quintet. The band's lineup includes the founding members such as bassist Hannar Sindri Grétarsson, drummer Sigurður Jakobsson, guitarists Birkir Kárason and Eysteinn Orri Sigurðsson and vocalist Breki Danielsen Imsland.
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Norway’s avant-garde industrial black metal outfit Dødheimsgard has gone through metaphorical transformations in sound, since the dawn of the early 1990s. The release of their classic debut offering “Kronet til konge” is in my opinion one of the best black metal albums the band has ever made. The paradigm shift in the spheres of avant-garde/industrial music marked a creative approach for mastermind Vicotnik (Yusaf Parvez) with the 2015 album “A Umbra Omega”. Within thirty years, a fundamental change had occurred from pure black metal to a more innovative and introspective direction.
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