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DEATH FROM ABOVE Reckoning Of The Damned Hot

9.0

Album EK Even Knudsen April 18, 2026 682 1 2

Released at the tail end of 2025, Reckoning of the Damned, the sophomore album from French death metal outfit Death From Above, arrived as a striking and unexpectedly refreshing highlight. While the band doesn’t reinvent the wheel, their approach to classic death metal is...

DESERTED FEAR Veins Of Fire Hot

8.0

Album EK Even Knudsen Updated April 23, 2026 218 1 2

Veins of Fire marks the sixth full-length release from German death metal outfit Deserted Fear. While the band’s early work leaned heavily on traditional death metal foundations, their more recent albums have gradually embraced a melodic death metal direction. This evolution continues here, with...

DREAM THEATER A View From The Top Of The World Hot

9.0

Album EK Even Knudsen Updated April 11, 2026 5520 1 2

A View From the Top of the World, Dream Theater’s fifteenth full‑length album, arrives with a striking cover that nods subtly to Norwegian landscapes. As is often the case with these prog‑metal veterans, the record demands several listens before its layers fully reveal themselves,...

DEEDS OF FLESH Nucleus Hot

10.0

Album EK Even Knudsen Updated April 11, 2026 2815 1 2

This has been my most anticipated release of the year, and after a long and difficult wait, it has finally arrived. Work on Nucleus began roughly seven years ago, but the project was halted when founding member Erik Lindmark tragically lost his battle with...

DESERTED FEAR Drowned By Humanity Hot

8.0

Album EK Even Knudsen Updated September 09, 2021 2610 1 2

I’ve read a few early reviews of this album and most of them weren’t exactly positive, so I guess I approached it with a bit of skepticism just to discover that I disagreed with most of what has been written about it. Ok, originality...

DREAM THEATER Distance Over Time Hot

9.0

Album EK Even Knudsen Updated November 01, 2021 2602 1 2

Following up their last epic opus 'The Astonishing' Dream Theater seems to be moving in the opposite direction for this new one with a heavier and more back to the roots approach. My first impression of 'Distance Over Time' wasn't too overwhelming, and it...

DESECRAVITY Anathema Hot

9.0

Album EK Even Knudsen Updated September 09, 2021 3384 1 2

'Anathema' is third full lenght album from Japanese technical/brutal death metal act Desecravity and like both it's predecessors it's beeing released through Willowtip records. The total runtime of this album is just above thirty minutes and even thogh I normally find that a bit...

DYSMORPHIC An Illusive Progress Hot

9.0

Album EK Even Knudsen Updated September 09, 2021 3430 1 2

French tech death metallers Dysmorphic are back with the follow up to their ambitous 2013 debut 'A Nation Of Casuality', and you can immediately hear that they have taken a huge step forward on 'An Illusive Progress'. Dysmorphic's style is a mixture of intricate...

DRAGONLORD Dominion Hot

8.0

Album EK Even Knudsen Updated September 09, 2021 2493 1 2

To be honest I can´t remember having heard Dragonlord before, but to my defence it has to be added that black metal haven´t exactly been my main focus in the later years. Howerver, Dragonlord is the black metal side project of Testament guitarist Eric...

DEICIDE Overtures Of Blasphemy Hot

9.0

Album EK Even Knudsen Updated September 09, 2021 2298 1 2

It has taken Deicide five years to follow up their excellent 2013 album 'In The Minds Of Evil', but now Glen Benton and Co are finally back with twelve brand new overtures of blasphemy. Since last time long time guitar player Jack Owen (now...