As soon as you hear the interchange between the accordion and the synths of "Byrjing" that herald Arntor , you know there's b...

What way to better champion your newfound eclecticism than the obligatory 'remix' album? Disguised Masters is not built entirely of...

Even though Criteria for a Black Widow was released only two years after the laughable Remains , it bore all the hallmarks of a band coming...

Another forgotten album that haunted the Invasion Records roster, Hellspell 's Devil's Might was a one-off Swedish black metal effo...

Indungeon must have come to the same conclusion about their debut Machinegunnery of Doom that I did 25 years after the fact, because their...

Sculpture was another band of German hopefuls within the Gothic metal niche, and while the band name and cover art to their sole, eponymous ...

While I wasn't so hot on Cryhavoc 's debut Sweetbriers (other than the cover), Pitch-Black Blues feels a little closer to what I h...

Another gem from the Invasion Records roster, Skymning arrived onto the Swedish melodic death metal scene with an even more pronounced reli...

The Gate of Pleasure is hardly one of the more memorable melodic death metal efforts of the later 90s, but it certainly slaps the band'...

Sins of Omission was another Swedish band trailing in the footsteps of the formidable At the Gates , and I'd say that they probably had...

The biggest shocker is that Scheitan , based on the dominant style of Nemesis, seemed to have been signed to Century Media based on the ...

The idea of cover albums in power metal is no rarity; groups such as Hammerfall and Powerwolf have put out some pretty damn good collection...

Some might be hesitant to praise Ghosts for its ballad-heavy, rock opera feel, and the relative lack of speed and heaviness compared to so ...

I don't know what could possibly possess a band to spend years listening to and touring on an album like The More Things Change and t...

As Konkhra maneuvered through the 90s, they started weaving a lot more groove and direct rock & roll influence into their sound, not ...

Much like a religious fanatic who starts speaking in tongues, I find myself becoming possessed whenever I have the hint of some metal band...

Though some might say it suffers from a bit of an identity crisis,  Le théâtre du vampire is certainly a crazy record that lives up to th...

If Dellamorte had shown up during the huge Swedish d-beat death metal revival that struck around the 'oughts, I think they might have...

Dead Again did not leave me with any huge expectations for its potential successors. It wasn't a terrible record, but the next rung do...

While Eternal is clearly a spiritual successor to Passage in terms of its spacey aesthetics, focused cover imagery and further progressi...