The Wall

After years in hibernation, the multi headed monster named Solstorm has awakened again.
Solstorm is the contrast between darkness and light, the beautiful and the ugly, the delicate and the heavy. Solstorm […]

To say that Michael Gregory Jackson is a well-known guitarist who has influenced many others is something of an understatement. Pat Metheny said, *”I have always considered him to be one of the most significantly […]

This is the debut album from Swedish sludge/doom quartet Oro, who came together in 2014. ‘Djupets Kall’ (‘The Deep Call’) is an album which is combining elements from lots of different areas including post and bla […]

Overkill are back with their 19th studio album and show no signs at all of slowing down. They have a new drummer since ‘The Grinding Wheel in Jason Bittner, but given he has played with the likes of Shadows F […]

I know very little about this Chile-based band, but they released their debut album as long ago as 2008, and the same line-up has been together since 2009. There have been some EP’s and singles, but the second a […]

I was fairly late hearing Rotting Christ for the first time, but even I have been a fan for twenty years now. It is incredible to think that Sakis Tolis (vocals, guitars, keyboards) and his brother Themis (drums) […]

Back with their third album, the Marseille-based band seem to have issues with keeping drummers, and yet again they have had to use a session musician for their latest release. That’s a shame, as one wonders w […]

This is the third album from TTRATW, since when they have announced their farewell tour as they are breaking up. Not exactly sure of the logic of doing that shortly after releasing their latest album but there it […]

I have been a fan of this Dutch outfit for some fifteen years, since the release of their third album ‘The Silent Force’, so when I realised they were back with their seventh (it has been way too long since ‘Hy […]

The boys are back in town and are still following the same routine of plugging in, getting the recording completed as quickly as possible (three days) and getting back out on the road. It is the same trio of Jeff […]

GEP and IQ are really happy to announce the new IQ album ‘Resistance’, a brand new double album with over a hundred and five minutes of new music.

Michael Holmes:
“It’s taken a while for this album to develop […]

Afraid is the first single from Laughing Stock’s upcoming new album “Sunrise”. The single is out now, via Norwegian label Apollon Records Prog, and the album is due out in September.

The roots of the band […]

This fall Sons of Alpha Centauri will release “Buried Memories” – a collaborative post metal colossus and the second part of the journey that started with “Continuum”.

This unique release has been mixed by […]

White Knight Records will release “Sprezzatura”, the second album by The Kentish Spires, on August 8th 2019.

“We wanted to progress within the progressive genre, exploring material in a slightly different style […]

White Knight Records will release “Natural Satellite”, the latest album by Welsh band 25 Yard Screamer, on August 8th 2019.

“Natural Satellite is an album that has had a varied and unexpected journey” says […]

No prizes for guessing for what we have here, it is a live album recorded at Wacken in 2018 (also available as a DVD and as a combined set). Unlike the other live album I have heard from them, recorded at the same […]

Originally released in their home country of Japan towards the end of 2018, Crystal Lake have signed a worldwide deal with Sharptone to assist in bringing their style of metalcore to the world. They may be […]

This Minneapolis-based duo of Andy Schoengrund (vocals, guitars, bass) and Andrew Reesen (drums) are back with their second full-length album, which has been released on vinyl, a medium well suited to their take […]

One man thrash/death machine Tom Reynolds is back with a three-track EP, and unless he is very careful he is going to keep proving that music from these crossover genres have space within the mainstream as all […]