Swiss music ensemble Sonar will be releasing their new live album “Live At Moods” with guest soloist/texturalist David Torn on November 16, 2018 on 7d Media. It was recorded live at Moods Jazz Club in Zürich, Swit […]

Bad Elephant Music is proud to announce the signing of Swedish progressive rock combo Introitus for the release of their new album, Shadows in early 2019.

The long awaited sequel to 2014’s critically a […]

Back in the mid-nineties Thrash had gone out of fashion, but Rich Sherrington had a dream to follow in the footsteps of his teenage heroes Xentrix, and in 1994 he formed his own band, Solitary. Four years later […]

This is the debut album from, who describe themselves as playing a unique blend of ska, hard rock, punk and reggae, with no horns. They do remind me somewhat of Less Than Jake, but not having a brass element does […]

In the long Scandinavian winter nights of the 1990s, the harshness of (melodic) death was combined with the icy attitude of black metal and created a suffocating darkness, which some bands have managed to maintain […]

This is the debut album from Chicago-based trio Stars Aligned. All three members were previously in the quartet Panic Switch, who released a five-track EP last year, but when one person left they decided to move […]

There are many things I find unacceptable when it comes to music, and one of those is for a band not to think that someone may have used the band name prior to them thinking of it. As far as I, and many others, […]

Finnish Progressive Rock-band Overhead release their long-due fifth studio album titled “Haydenspark”. The album will be released on the 15th of November.

Haydenspark combines the sound of the earlier Overhead […]

„Black riders part 1“, the upcoming album of “Heartscore” featuring twenty poems of Stephen Crane set to dark, progressive Metal, is now ready for pre-order. The official release date is November 1st 2018, the day […]

Formed in 2006, Pennsylvania-based noise rock/sludge trio Tile has since been creating a lot of noise, literally, in the DIY underground scene. They combine angular noise rock, revved-up hardcore punk, and […]

Formed in 2010, Tornado are now returning with their third full-length album. 2016’s ‘Black President’ gained the band quite a great deal of critical acclaim, and it is interesting to note that for this one they […]

Back at the turn of the century, Fred Hendrix (Terra Nova) had become more and more interested in production and songwriting, so he started looking for new and fresh talent to develop. Following several […]

Formed in Edmonton in 2015, Tymo released their debut album ‘The Lone Wolf” in March of the same year. The band are Tim Tymo on vocals/guitar, Nick Schwartz on guitar, Harlen Jacobs on bass, and Marc Durie on dru […]

Multi-instrumentalist, poet, novelist and translator: Pedro Carmona-Alvarez is a Norwegian artist who releases his music under the name Moonpedro And The Sinking Ship. Since 2007 he has released three albums: Ed […]

Finally! It’s here! “Amazing Games”, “the second coming”, the sequel to first album Saluki, which came in 1977!

Amazing Games could be described as Saluki’s “forgotten” LP who never got out as planned back in […]

Does music bend space and time? When a five minute song seems like a huge black hole while a 24-minute-epic rushes past in the blink of an eye, one can get the impression that it’s possible. Concerning P […]

Ultra-Violence are an Italian thrash metal band from Turin, Italy, formed in 2009. After they released their second album, ‘Deflect The Flow’, they had their first line-up changes as the bassist and drummer bot […]

I love the vocals coming from Nyves Krithinidou on this album, it is just a shame that it is metalcore and that there is also a male lead singer who is doing his best to destroy all the harmony which she brings to […]

Formed out of the ashes of Swiss speed metal band Carrion, Poltergeist were formed in 1988, and proceeded to tour with the likes of Destruction, Kreator, Sodom, Tankard, Coroner and Voivod, and released three […]

Formed more than 20 years ago, Belgian brutal death metal act Aborted are back with their tenth full-length release, following on from 2016’s ‘Retrogore’. One always knows what Aborted are about, and with this […]