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...

Arriving a decade after Sideshow Symphonies , I recall Arcturian being a relief for me, as I felt I might never hear from this Norse superg...

Arcturus was one of the bands that put on a pretty sweet live-set stream during the COVID 2020 period, something I really appreciated in th...

If the masks, costumes and title don't tip you off, La Masquerade Infernale is the point when Arcturus decided to widen the net of the...

Aspera Hiems Symfonia is essentially a blown out version of the Constellation EP, with the original tracks re-recorded, four more added on...

The In Vain EP is part follow-up to the 1996 Lingua Mortis album, which featured the Germans playing alongside the Symphonic Orchestra Prag...

Though trips to the symphonic well would become more common in the band's later years, Lingua Mortis was kind of a novelty at its relea...

Perhaps it's just old age catching up with me, but I think it telling that Fleshgod Apocalypse 's substantial third full-length al...

'Supergroup' styled bands don't always have a tendency to work out in the long run. Very often, some of the guest stars will sim...

To put it bluntly, Finland's Turisas has no place in the collection of anyone unwilling to appreciate 'epic cheese' in their me...

Concluding a trilogy of works that debuted with last year's excellent Od Południa na Północ.., and continued through the similar, sligh...

It's a safe assumption that Swedish mainstays have jumped the shark at this point, their best material long behind them, their last stre...

Rhapsody of Fire return with their seventh full length album chock full of neo-classical shred, operatic choirs and a bevy of well-done pow...

The barbed, yet tranquil, alien atmosphere of this album's cover art presents quite a mystery. Clearly from the logo one would guess the...

France has put out a slew of very good black metal bands, but they aren't terribly well known for their death metal aside from a few gro...

Scenes from Hell must seem like both a renewed revelation to fans who had desired an extension to the symphonic thrust of Hangman's Hym...

Thank you ever so much, L.O.N., for I am only recently recovering from your previous album (and career height) Od południa na północ when yo...

Italians Sound Storm have presented me with quite a dilemma, for I enjoy the meat of their symphonic sound. They manage to merge the synthe...

Suffering Souls is a symphonic black metal band out of Germany, and Sadistic Goat Complex is their third foray into creepy castles and hau...

After the excellent Domvs Mvndi and the monumental With Vilest Worms to Dwell , Hollenthon had blown the ailing Therion out of the water a...