Album Reviews

Rise Radiant is the Caligula’s Horse sound pushed to its extremes: at once its most ferocious and its most touching, its most expansive and its most condensed, its most poetic and its most vicious. A mist have for the prog rockers deep inside of us.
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With Virus, Haken created once again a very enjoyable progressive album with a conceptually link to Vector.
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'Effigy of Nightmares' is a big improvement from the sophomore. Valdrin has succeeded in taking their craft to a professional level.
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The second EP of Held In Secret shows a lot of potential en mature lyrics. We will see more of these guys and hopefully an even bigger score.
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Gomorra's debut album 'Divine Judgement' is truly a blast packing fast, aggressive and groovy riffs and overall virtuosity.
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Thirty years after Winter’s groundbreaking death doom debut ‘Into Darkness’, founding member, Stephen Flam, has penned its spiritual follow up with his new band, Göden, on ‘Beyond Darkness’.
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Black Curse manages to give each element a deserving focus. War metal, raw metal or primordial death metal: all these musical traits can be applied to what Black Curse has presented on their debut album.
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The cold icy impression of the Norwegian black metal is beautifully conjured on the self titled album.
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Cosmic Putrefaction is somewhere in between the cosmic orbits of Tomb Mold's album, 'Manor of Infinite Forms' and the semi-progression of Blood Incantation.
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With this album I found myself distracted. I like the songs. They definitely scream party but they lack the power of pirate metal. It is still Alestorm, but not as loud and rough as we are used to.
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