Exploring the synthesis of religious ideology at the beginning of the current era, when the once war-bound Assyrian empire became “Syriac” and one of the cradles of Christianity, Finnish Black Metal act Synthre offer up “Heterodoxa”. Drawing inspiration from this unlikely transformation, during which the old gods and demons of Sumeria and Mesopotamia started to walk
Nine years ago, a crack commando unit of Swedish Death Metal warriors was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Stockholm underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune, turning stages to sawdust
“Arise is a major evolution from our debut album “A Tale of Fire”. We took the elements we loved most from that first release and cranked them up another level. We really wanted to outdo ourselves on this one and we all felt ready to make something better in a shorter time frame. People can
Hailing from Pescara in Italy, Slyther are a crossover Thrash quartet who formed between 2005 and 2007 but have only been active since 2020. They made their live debut in 2022 and have since shared stages with many well known names from the Italian underground Metal scene including Game Over and Fingernails. A year later
What happens when you take that Hardcore and Metal combination that was lumped in with American Metalcore in 2003 despite being very different and then bring it up to date with the production values of 2025? The answer to that one can be found with Boston Massachusetts Refuse The Future, a band who have Jamie
Celebrating a decade of destruction that began in 2015, Potsdam Germany based Grindcore quartet Constrict have finally unveiled a record in “Kadavergehorsam” (or “Blind Obedience“) that was recorded, mixed and mastered in DIY or DIE fashion between 2023 and 2024. They’re describing it as their most focused and furious work yet, which seems almost impossible
Inspired by bands like Nails, Carcass and Nasum to name but a few, multi instrumentalist and vocalist Jamie Ryan had an idea for a solo project that some might consider total and utter madness. The Irishman, living just south of Paris in France was sick to the back teeth of over produced albums in contemporary
Adorned by artwork by Samaelle Edrakin that immediately takes us to the darker side of Pacific Rim and Kaiju rising from the oceans to crush cities, a debut full length album from French Technical Death Metal aficionados Horror Within to follow 2022 EP “Awaiting Extinction” holds much promise. A six piece, the band have a twin
Having spent the past seven years digging graves with other projects including Cabinet, Oreamnos and Sxuperion, drummer and mastermind Matthew returns to his first frostbitten love in Blackened Death Metal project Valdur to offer “Guilded Abyss“. An album recorded over a two year period between 2023 and 2025 at the Bloody Mountain Bunker, its the first
“Ostracism was meant to be a manifesto of our solitude, which we wanted to offer as a gift and the best chance for each person to truly know themselves. But as we dove deeper into our own minds, we came across images we weren’t ready for. Under pressure from outside forces we couldn’t control, we
