Six years have passed since Bloodbath released their last album, the amazing ‘The Fantomless Mastery’, but now they are finally back with their fourth studio album entitled ‘Grand Morbid Funeral’ and I must admit that my expectations were quite high when I pushed the play button. After the first round I was quite disappointed, and although the album has grown after a few more rounds I’m still not fully...
I not quite sure whether its Job For A Cowboy or my musical taste that have gone through significant changes since the last time I reviewed an album from these guys – but something is different for sure. Starting as a metal core/death core band Job For A Cowboy has gradually turned more and more towards technical death metal and with ‘Sun Eater’ they have finally found their place...
Nightingale is the brainchild of Swedish producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Dan Swanö also known from among others Edge Of Sanity, Bloodbath and Witherscape. While most of his other projects points in the direction of death- and extreme metal Nightingale is something quite different. This is the project that allows Dan to realize all his ideas that don’t fit directly into his heavier projects. The material on ‘Retribution’ is simpler...
More than four years have passed since Norwegian power metal outfit Triosphere released their previous album ‘The Road Less Travelled’. Since then Ørjan Aare Jørgensen has left the band and Kenneth Tårneby has joined the band as their new drummer. Now the wait is finally over as their third studio album entitled ‘The Heart Of The Matter’ is ready to be released. It sounds unmistakable Triosphere just like you...
Vomitile is a Cyprus-based death metal band, they were formed in 2007 and released their debut album, ‘Igniting Chaos’, three years later. Now the guys are back with the follow up to their debut and I’m sure that ‘Mastering the art of killing’ will be well received by fans of the genre. The music is basically straight forward old school death metal with a few melodic and technical hints,...
I must admit that I haven’t offered Wihile Heaven Wept too much attention in the past despite the fact that their history reaches over twenty years back in time, but I guess I have to do something about that after having heard their new creation entitled ‘Suspended At Aphelion’ a few times. It is truly a grandiose album with some amazing atmospheric, epic songs and so much variation that...
ThunderWorks is an American band led by Michael J. Amari who is responsible for all music on this album and he also play all instruments himself, while vocal duties are taken care of by Belgian vocalist Brandon ‘Voidspawn’ Leigh. According to the press note by the band their music is a melodic blend of thrash, progressive and death metal inspired by bands such as Metallica, Dream Theater, Opeth and...
It has been a long wait for the follow up album to the excellent 2007 effort from Vesania, ‘Distractive Killusions’, but now it’s finally here. Featuring present and past members of Behemoth, Dimmu Borgir and Decapitated it’s impossible for Vesania to avoid the ‘Super group’ stamp whether they like it or not, but with a lineup like this the expectations ahead of a new album release are always sky...
Are you ready for some real traditional heavy metal? Well, then German band Forensick would be a good place to start. These young guys have certainly not reinvented the wheel with their second studio album since the formula is both well known and well used. Inspired by the eighties metal scene they have created an album filled with very strong and catchy songs, high pitch vocals and those traditional...
‘The Aura’, the debut album of Canadian technical death metal outfit Beyond Creation was some kind of a well-hidden treasure for a couple of years until it was re-released by Season Of Mist last year. It was simply a stunning debut showing both amazing musicianship, as well as the bands ability to create great songs. Now the highly anticipated follow up album is here and I must admit that...