When I was deciding to complete my reviews for the Sarke discography, a band I've long loved but never openly appreciated enough, I had...

Cursed and Coronated is a difficult record to write about because it is so ridiculously close to its predecessor in production, songwriting...

Wildfire might lean a lot more heavily into the band's thrash/speed metal side than any of the other  Deströyer 666 albums, but it also...

Kind of how Into the Lair of the Sun God mirrored Nucleus ,  XX is a stylistic sibling to its predecessor Night of the Hammer , which you ...

By the time Terminal Redux dropped, Vektor was already on a trajectory towards the stars, and I don't just mean the ones out in space ...

Starspawn is, for me, what really got this extradimensional party started. It wasn't my introduction to Blood Incantation , but the fir...

Creeping Death is another of the younger US bands which has taken the scene by storm, punching far above their weight to some, well worth t...

Three albums in to Asphyx 's reunion with Martin van Drunen, and I feel like you know what you're getting to get when you spin one o...

It might not be the prevailing opinion, but Metal Church is a band that never quite amounted to much for me beyond their first two albums, ...

I have at least two friends that consider Dystopia to be one of the best albums Megadeth has ever written, and while I can't go anywhe...

Ancient is a band that started out respectably enough, then swerved into trendy, goofball territory when they took their vampire shtick a l...

Heavenwood decided to go all out with its fifth album, and not only come up with an interesting tarot concept for the titling and lyrics, b...

Stjerner, speil og svartebøker... might not seem like such a far stretch from Vargtimen , as it still cultivates the noisy, cold black meta...

Although I was particularly interested in Death Resonance for acquiring the material from the Beyond the Infinite EP, it turns out that th...

The first time I heard the Shores of Oblivion EP I almost did a double take. I'd had few expectations based on the previous output, and...

As fun as The Full Moon Sessions proved to be, there was a little sense of it being slapped together and lacking cohesion, something the Ca...

It wasn't long after the Satan's Tomb EP that Denner/Shermann would drop their first (and only) full-length album, with a cover ev...

Powerwolf has so many deluxe double disc releases of their albums that this probably wasn't their first rodeo with a proper 'live...

Although the advance track "My Way" hardly struck gold with me, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that The Devil Strikes Agai...

The My Way Ep was released early in 2016 as both an advanced single for The Devil Strikes Again , and a presumed 'warmup' for Peavy...