Denmark's Denial of God is a band I always felt I should have gelled with, but never quite got there. They have amazing cover artwork o...

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...

I can't have been the only one excited when this new collaboration between Michael Denner and Hank Shermann was announced. It had been a...

While I don't take exception to records like Into the Unknown or 9 , which manage to channel most of Mercyful Fate 's positive qual...

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

After Sexual Affective Disorder , Konkhra decided to ditch the freaky death metal artwork and enlighten us to their fetish for beautiful ...

Sexual Affective Disorder was not about to transform Konkhra into your new favorite death metal band of the early 90s, but it's clea...

I can remember a time when Konkhra was poised to be one of the Danish representatives to that class of European death metal bands that br...

I always want to root for a band like Artillery on the basis that they once provided me with an album so good that even thinking about it...

In the Trash is not Artillery 's first flirtation with a compilation of their demo and pre-signing material, but it thankfully differ...

Into the Unknown might be one of the duller looking albums in the Mercyful Fate catalog, but not the worst of them. This marked a point ...

I listen to and enjoy droves of metal records each years, across a wide spread of the subgenres, but few and far between are those that ca...

Force of Evil was a project I had pretty high hopes for back when it was active, largely because I hadn't been truly satisfied with a...

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...

I was such a massive fan of Denmark's Artillery in their late 80s streak, leading up to the almost unparalleled By Inheritance , that...

Should a release like Dreams of Horror really even exist in 2014? King Diamond and Mercyful Fate might stand beyond criticism in the ey...

Much as The Graveyard proved the nadir to all those things King Diamond , an uninspired and pitifully bland paragon of career exhaustion,...

Unwilling to conceal themselves completely under one genre or the other, Denmark's Tongues straddle the border between the death and ...

Though I laud these Danes for expanding greatly upon the sounds of their 2007 debut Deathstination , I still found myself having several h...

I've seen the Danish Phantom described as a hybrid of black and doom metals, but despite a few of the moderately paced, monastic chord...