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Powerwolf, Gloryhammer (Thessaloniki, Greece – 30/11/2019)
There are times that, no matter how experienced you are at concerts, you can still be pleasantly surprised, even from bands that do not match with “your sound”. Well, one of those times, was the first appearance of the German group POWERWOLF in our country, on Saturday 30th of November in Thessaloniki, with special guests […]
Slayer, Lamb Of God, Anthrax, Obituary (Berlin, Germany – 02/12/18)
After a week of tourism at the beautiful Amsterdam and having wandered all over the Dutch Capital, my holidays were coming towards their glorious end, so I took my flight to Berlin to attend the long expected SLAYER’s live on their final tour! I still can’t believe they’re doing a farewell tour. Who? The mighty […]
Gentihaa, Dimlight, Warship (Athens, Greece – 8/11/2019)
GENTIHAA is a new Greek Metal band, being introduced to us through its recent album “Reverse Entropy” and the two live appearances in Athens and Thessaloniki as the support band to DIMMU BORGIR. After these successful performances they decided to present their debut album “Reverse entropy” with a release party at Temple. Support groups were […]
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Helloween – Keepers Of The Faith
The legendary HELLOWEEN has recently released a brand new album, of high standards. We had the opportunity to talk with the drummer of the band, Dani Loeble. In a long conversation, he explains how the composition and the recordings of the new-self titled album took place, what was the vibe in the band after the […]
Wolfheart – Wolves Of Winter War
WOLFHEART, is the most recent band of the multi-talented and really busy musician Tuomas Saukkonen, known for many of his projects, including BEFORE THE DAWN, DAWN OF SOLACE and BLACK SUN AEON. On the occasion of the release of WOLFHEART’s latest album, “Wolves Of Karelia”, but also concerning “Waves” of DAWN OF SOLACE, THE GALLERY […]
Lake Of Tears – Ominous Emotions
On the occasion of the most recent release of LAKE OF TEARS, entitled “Ominous”, we had a very interesting conversation with the mainman (and the only original member left at this moment) of LAKE OF TEARS, Daniel Brennare. Daniel opens his soul to us, referring to a very personal and experiential tone about his state […]
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Act Of Denial – Negative
Year: 2021 Total Time: 45:59 Label: Crusader Records First ACT OF DENIAL album, actually I was waiting for it with great anticipation. ACT OF DENIAL is a project of strong names of our scene. Just think of what kind of expectations can come out when SOILWORK vocalist Bjorn Strid, Steve Di Giorgio of TESTAMENT, John […]
Bocc – A La Forca (EP)
Year: 2020 Total Time: 23:09 Label: Self-Financed BOCC is a quite new band from Barcelona, as it was formed in 2019. At the same year, their first demo “Demo I” was released. Next year, 2020 finds them releasing their first EP “A La Forca”, with which they take us on a journey through the dark […]
Chris Mike – Socialholic
Year: 2020 Total Time: 31:07 Label: Candyrat Records The last two years have been at least complicated for everyone. Musicians had all the time in the world to finish older projects or to create new ones as the touring and the gigs were put to a stop by the pandemic. Well, most of them were […]
Cyclopean Walls – Enter The Dreamlands
Year: 2021 Total Time: 47:36 Label: Steel Gallery Records We have mentioned many times, many different things about the Greek metal community and its bands. We certainly recognize its value and its great offer to the genre from all idioms it serve. In the case of CYCLOPIAN WALLS, our scene does not claim absolute paternity, […]
Havukruunu – Kuu Erkylan Ylla (EP)
Year: 2021 Total Time: 34:53 Label: Naturmacht Productions HAVUKRUUNU is a band that “paints” soundscapes. The imagery may be cold and dark but it’s also beautiful and majestic. It’s black metal but at the same time is so much more than that. They use the genre to express their artistic vision and they expand it; […]
Hooded Menace – The Tritonus Bell
Year: 2021 Total Time: 47:40 Label: Season Of Mist It is widely known, that when the stars and planets align, a band will release an album that will come out of the confided space of its genre and sail into the waters of a more universal sea, which in this case is the vast and […]
Insomnium – Argent Moon (EP)
Year: 2021 Total Time: 23:11 Label: Century Media The Finnish Melodic Death Metallers INSOMNIUM, are well known to those who deal with Extreme Metal sound and especially with the melodic Death Metal scene. With twenty-two years of career on their backs and eight complete albums already in their quiver, INSOMNIUM returns this year, after the […]
Rotting Christ – Der Perfekte Traum (EP) (reissue)
Year: 2021 Total Time: 35:28 Label: Vinylstore.gr In the 90’s, two years after the release of ROTTING CHRIST’s very successful album “A Dead Poem” and few days before the release of “Sleep of the Angels” album, the band released the EP “Der Perfekte Traum”. In 2021, was decided to release a remastered version of it, […]
Svdestada – Azabache
Year: 2021 Total Time: 32:35 Label: Self-Financed SVDESTADA formed in 2017 in Madrid and they introduced themselves to us in 2018 with their debut album “Yo soy el mar”, while this year they release their second full length entitled “Azabache”. Musically they move in the field of “modern” Black Metal, as their perspective on this […]
Swallow the Sun – 20 Years Οf Gloom, Beauty Αnd Despair: Live Ιn Helsinki (Live Album)
Year: 2021 Total Time: 43:12 & 01:15:11 Label: Century Media Records Although this was supposed to be one of the many concerts with the same concept prepared by the Finns Melodic Doom Death Metallers SWALLOW THE SUN, Covid 19 had different plans and so their first concert in Helsinki to celebrate their twenty years and […]
While She Sleeps – Sleeps Society
Year: 2021 Total Time: 44:28 Label: Sleeps Brothers “Sleeps Society” is the fifth studio album by British Metalcore band WHILE SHE SLEEPS. It was released on 16 April 2021, through the band’s independent label Sleeps Brothers, in collaboration with Search and Destroy, Spinefarm Records, UNFD, and Universal Music. Three years ago, WHILE SHE SLEEPS had […]
Carnifex – Graveside Confessions
Year: 2021 Total Time: 63:18 Label: Nuclear Blast Two years after the album “World War X” the American “dads” of Deathcore CARNIFEX return with their new, 8th album in 15 years of their career. The band is now a four-piece, since the group’s guitarist Jordan Lockrey recently left the band and they simply decided that […]
Carcass – Torn Arteries
Year: 2021 Total Time: 49:00 Label: Nuclear Blast The return of the British Death Metal legends CARCASS in 2013, with the album “Surgical Steel”, was undoubtedly triumphant, placing them once again at the top, despite the several years of absence, during which their legend had been preserved and grown. Since then, it took eight years […]
Criminal – Sacrificio
Year: 2021 Total Time: 42:04 Label: Metal Blade CRIMINAL from Chile were created in 1991 through the ashes of a historical and cult band of the underground, PENTAGRAM (later they changed their name to PENTAGRAM CHILE), whose song NAPALM DEATH had covered in had their EP “Leaders Not Followers”. CRIMINAL have released nine albums including […]
Gus G. – Quantum Leap
Year: 2021 Total Time: 48:56 Label: AFM After his years of adventure as the guitarist of the great OZZY, the much loved virtuoso of the six-string goddess from Thessaloniki Gus G., returned to his first love and since then has released four great albums with his band FIREWIND and three more under his own name, […]
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