Cobrakill – Serpent’s Kiss (Frontiers Music)
Hokay, so!! Let’s take a trip in the way back machine, yeah? Cobrakill is back with album number two Serpent's Kiss coming via Frontiers Music. Now, let's be clear here, okay? This record sounds...
Resin Tomb – Cerebral Purgatory (Transcending Obscurity)
We like our metal filthy, and if you follow the kind of artists yours truly likes to cover, that statement shouldn’t surprise in the least. There’s just something about gritty, visceral walls of angst-ridden...
Heavy Sentence – Warriors of Madness (Dying Victims Productions)
We all start somewhere when it comes to our metal journey. For this scribe, the NWOBHM scene offered a multitude of artists firing on all cylinders for the glory of the music. So it’s...
Nextanative – Prologue: Burn it Down (Velvet Records)
Another example that not all idol-related groups have to come from Japan, Nextanative is an Indonesian act that is influenced by the Japanese alt idol sound and it's culture, but taking things slightly in...
Dissimulator – A Lower Form of Resistance
Not very often you hear bands in 2024 willing to tackle an advanced form of technical thrash while also injecting a bit of death, avant-garde angular aspect to their sound. That’s what you’ll hear...
Boundless Chaos – Sinister Upheaval (Dying Victims Productions)
Unleashing a frantic brand of death-laden thrash metal since their inception in 2017, German quintet Boundless Chaos lives for a time when fury, aggression, and no sense of modern compromise existed in their creative...
Caligula’s Horse – Charcoal Grace (InsideOut Music)
Our major exposure to Caligula’s Horse was in the build up to ProgPower USA XX in 2019. When announced during the 2018 edition - of which is customarily done so at the festival via...
Metalite – Expedition One (AFM Records)
Metalite have been masters of fusing modern metal, power metal bombast, and pop-infused fun since 2017's Heroes in Time. At this point, it's been 3 years since their last release, A Virtual World, though...
Domination Campaign – Launching the Storm of Steel
A side project established by Psycroptic members Jason Peppiatt and Joe Haley, Domination Campaign explores older pure death metal influences through their style of tones, songwriting, plus war-inspired subject matter. Fresh off the debut...
Not Secured, Loose Ends – Ouroarboros (codomomental inc)
Known previously as yukueshirezutsurezure, Not Secured, Loose Ends has ties that go all the way back to 2015 within the Japanese alt idol scene. In early 2021, yurushirezutsurezure disbanded but the group was resurrected...
Ruthless – The Fallen (Fireflash Records)
So about eight years ago was when I first encountered Ruthless. The album was They Rise and I remember not being very impressed with what I heard. So now, in 2024, along comes The...
Saxon – Hell, Fire and Damnation (Silver Lining Music)
Glorious times for this veteran UK metal entourage in Saxon. Their profile has never been bigger in all parts of the globe – even gaining a chance to tour stateside with Judas Priest when...
Lord Dying – Nothing Is Everything
Photo: Neil DaCosta
Continually evolving from record to record, Lord Dying can’t be merely categorized as a sludge metal outfit. Aspects of psychedelia, progressive rock, all the way through to stoner and groove elements come...
Extinction A.D. – Ruthless Intent (Unique Leader Records)
Almost a decade in existence, Long Island, New York’s Extinction A.D. produce a savage form of metallic energy that fuses hardcore, punk, and thrash elements. Be it on record or stage, people will be...
Saevus Finis – Facilis Descensus Averno (Transcending Obscurity)
With 2023 slightly in the rear view, let the 2024 releases commence! There’s a whole lot coming down the pipeline, and one of the early albums we were most curious about is a brand...