At the Walls was one of those first records I latched onto in the modern wave of thrash and death metal albums incorporating hardcore aesth...

Gastwerso capitalizes on the success of Viige Urh with a few minor tweaks, but I was really satisfied that they continued with this bright...

Summon the Hordes arrives right on queue, at another 3-year interval which seems to be the efficient standard Protector is maintaining for...

There have been endless reunion albums out there, from bands both successful and obscure, but the return of Possessed had to be one of the ...

The first impression upon seeing this album, and perhaps the best case scenario, is that it's going to sound somewhere like a cross betw...

I'm Alive had the distinction of being our first proper Cirith Ungol recording after their 2015 reunion, but the catch was that it was...

If you put Existential Horror on the turntables for me while you had me in a blindfold, no access to any other information beyond the sound...

If Starspawn was a record that exploded its own audience through a shitstorm of positive critical response and massive scene hype, Hidden H...

Wretched Illusions didn't leave a huge impression on me the first time I heard it, possibly because I was just so inundated with epic t...

I'm probably a bit guilty of riding the whole 'caveman riff' death metal wave circa Maggot Stomp and a few other labels as much ...

Legacy of the Dark Lands is a vanity project, perhaps misbranded under the Blind Guardian moniker, in which Hansi Kursch gets his fantasy ...

Silver Bullet is another band that could be considered alongside the more pompous, heavily orchestrated Euro heavy/power metal acts, specif...

As a poor sucker whose copy of Verkligheten did not include the bonus content comprises the Underworld EP, I had to check this one out dig...

Just looking upon Verkligheten , without playing a single note, you can tell that something's different. Valnoir's artwork has an al...

The real question I had when I saw that Tribulation had announced its first live album was just how well their diverse slate of material wa...

I touched a little on this material when I was reviewing the Powerwolf full-length Blessed & Possessed that it was originally attached...

Although its formula isn't a far transition from that of the debut Berserker , From Hell With Love doesn't take more than a track o...

Although the culmination of the entire 'Pumpkins United' concept for me will be whether or not they can pull of their new eponymous ...

Xentrix was a competent if unexceptional British thrash band that, after two worthwhile albums and a goofy cover of the Ghostbusters theme...

Much like its simplified, stripped down title, Horror sees a stripped down version of Exhumed which is reaching back to its earlier turn-o...