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March 6th, 2024 Reviews

Before the Dawn – Archaic Flame (Napalm Records)

…e the melodic chorus runs concurrently next to a stunted, circular riff parade. “Run To You”, the blockbuster Bryan Adams hit from the Reckless album, is given a Before the Dawn transformation – Paavo’s natural melodic register perfect for this style of song, the extra level of distortion girth and Saku Moilanen’s reflective keyboard approach difference makers to the good. “Dying Sun” finishes off this quick hitting record, taken from a gig in Fin…

March 6th, 2024 Reviews

Vlad in Tears – Relapse (Metalville)

…horuses. Check out “Dig Deep” in that regard, the stunted riffing of Lex Vlad cascading next to an addictive vocal refrain, shifting into some tranquil passages before the next heavy charge barrels down from the sky. The contrasts continue when taking on a quieter sheen for “Goodbye”, as you feel swept away by the thoughtful, lower register singing that mirrors the almost church/hymn-like presence, similar to HIM or 69 Eyes. The trio will incorpor…

March 6th, 2024 Reviews

Sonata Arctica – Clear Cold Beyond (Atomic Fire Records)

…pped-down renditions for the Acoustic Adventures Volume 1 and 2 releases in 2022, Sonata Arctica appears ready to approach this new studio album Clear Cold Beyond on strong footing. A palate cleanse often ignites those creative juices, where you remember what inspired you back in those early days of a band, while also applying the experience and technological advances in the modern world to execute the best product at the time. For main songwriter…

March 5th, 2024 Features

Lutharo – Riding Within Euphoria

…or me than going to a random studio and being all nervous. Whereas I’m already comfortable in this environment, I’m comfortable with these people, they are my friends, and they know what I’m capable of, they know how to push me. It made everyone’s time in the studio that much better. It was easier to calm down and get the best things out of us. Dead Rhetoric: What fuels the lyrical content for the group? Where do you also decide when to diversify…

March 4th, 2024 Reviews

Midnight – Hellish Expectations (Metal Blade Records)

…rs take on another venomous veneer. Even spots of NWOBHM riffs meet Motörhead groove come to mind on the mid-tempo “Slave Of the Blade”, while the one-four-five chord progressions reach a fever pitch on “Deliver Us To Devil”. These are anthems for the devoted – seething in angst, dripping in that bestial spirit that rages yearning to break free. Over in a scant twenty-five minutes and change, closer “F.O.A.L.” contains those rally cry movements in…

March 4th, 2024 Reviews

Messiah – Christus Hypercubus (High Roller Records)

…rushing hard and fast sound that straddles the lines of death/thrash. Standout Tracks: “Centipede Bite”, “Acid Bath’, “Soul Observatory” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOPQLkohyrs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I42aha75zIg Messiah on Facebook…

March 4th, 2024 Reviews

Judas Priest – Invincible Shield (Sony Music)

…weeping twin harmony guitars, a song that this scribe believes could have made the final grade on the regular release. No one will be disappointed in the production from Andy Sneap – he ensures a full sound that has that modern attack while never sacrificing the little earworms that appear through subsequent playbacks. How does this record stack up next to the mainstay albums in the Judas Priest catalog? Time will tell of course after say six mont…

March 3rd, 2024 Features

Judas Priest – Shattering the Invincible Shield

…going to be it. Everything we’ve done since then has been all of my wishes coming true. Dead Rhetoric: How do you see the next year developing for Judas Priest to support the record? Are you hopeful for another studio record for the band? Faulkner: You never know. As I said, we are always coming up with ideas, melodies, and riffs. That’s just who we are. Never say never, it’s an interesting thing to consider, where would we go. Redeemer of Souls,…

March 1st, 2024 Reviews

Suicidal Angels – Profane Prayer (Nuclear Blast)

…ndiary beginning if ever there was one. But these first two tracks pale in comparison to what comes next. An explosive cut and personal favorite hits you in “Purified By Fire”, and that hit is as subtle as a right hook from Mike Tyson. When that feeling subsides, along comes “Deathstalker,” an eight-minute magnum opus that immediately cemented itself as another album favorite. The title track is, like much of this album, a lesson in killer riffs a…

March 1st, 2024 Reviews

Sentry – Sentry (High Roller Records)

…m the evil, narrative start through the sophistication of the smoldering lead fading out next to the sterling vocal performance to capture the essence of timeless metal perfection. The advantage of seasoning, knowledge, and skilled musicianship allows Sentry to develop a strong debut album that deserves proper appreciation – hopefully leading into solid sales beyond a faithful audience seeking out this band whenever possible live. The second comin…

February 28th, 2024 Reviews

Shadowdance – Ageless (Divebomb Records)

…r riff instincts on other highlights such as “Climb” and the alluring “Set Free”. Special guests come in the form of vocalists, guitarists and keyboardists with ties to acts like Job For a Cowboy, Chaos Frame and Judicator among others – yet never deters from the exquisite, heavy foundation the band displays. Specific attention to detail when it comes to guitar harmonization or key, moody vocal melodies convey a love of artists like Savatage, Iced…

February 27th, 2024 Features

Hands of Goro – Step Into the Outerworld

…k the scene is going great right now. The post-pandemic global heavy metal community has come together in a way that I haven’t seen in a long time. There are new festivals that are popping up, sold out shows, all the old festivals in Germany and Sweden, the Scandinavian countries and the UK, they are going even stronger and bigger now. I can’t wait until Goro can attack and fulfill the destiny at those festivals. If we had unlimited resources? I w…

February 22nd, 2024 Features

Myrath – Carrying On

…ailure, stop music directly. The second one is strategy management when it comes to income. How to spend your money to make the best value possible. There is not a million Euros when you are only selling thousands of albums, the income for the band is almost nothing. You need to organize tours, festivals, video clips, and the recordings. Logistic and financial strategy is something that I learned from other people in the industry. Actually, from m…

February 20th, 2024 Features

Suicidal Angels – Fighting for Humanity

…over to, based on the comments through YouTube and other social media channels there are a lot of people that are asking us to come over. Since we signed up with a new booking agency for the states, either in 2024 or 2025 we will be coming over. Either festivals, touring, or both. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85pPL_68NYc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ofxYJgSXAk Suicidal Angels on Facebook…

February 18th, 2024 Features

Durbin – Piercing Steel

…has changed himself every couple of months, coming up with a new gimmick. Commits to it completely – and that’s so inspiring, especially as a musician. I find myself a singer who likes to sing in all of the different genres. I consider myself more in that role, as the one guy. Rebooking and repackaging myself, especially with Durbin now. Chris does that with all his wrestling personas, with Fozzy, with the cruise, his books. He does it all. Dead…

February 13th, 2024 Features

Surgical Strike – Nonstop Hate

…amount of energy. We like to express ourselves on stage. Two years ago, in 2022, we had a lot of cool shows. We played Wacken Open Air, Dong Open Air, Metal Frenzy that were all great German metal festivals. Especially Wacken was a very cool experience for us. Dead Rhetoric: What are your thoughts on the state of heavy metal currently? What do you enjoy most about the genre – and what changes (if any) would you like to make for the greater good o…

February 8th, 2024 Features

Infected Rain – Vehicles for Emotion

…g rapping or ethnic atmospheres/singing. We want to be free. We want to be free when we compose, we want to feel free when we deliver an image of the band. For example we had a band pic where we were all in white, which is not very metal [laughs]. We have had many contradictions like that, because I feel like we are far away from the times when there were such strict rules about only listening to certain types of music. If anyone found out you lik…

February 6th, 2024 Features

Dust Bolt – Follow Your Instincts

…nd writing more and more material. Bringing Dust Bolt out to the world! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxCqdAM5SvU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ8e2bJAj0k Dust Bolt on Facebook…

February 5th, 2024 Reviews

EXA – Left in Shards (Self-Released)

…w the double bass barrage for “King Terror” to be a perfect closer, Tom’s sadistic melodies adding that fierce edge to an already stellar arrangement. Many listeners will prefer the more conventional tones on display – beneficial in the bass/drum department for certain to lodge these songs deeper into brains on a fairly swift clip. Clean segments give chase to a larger cavalcade of progressive riffs to make “Hire to Fire” distinctive, the whisperi…

February 4th, 2024 Features

Eternal Storm – A Rising Tide

…side, by 2019 Daniel R. Flys joined our ranks and by then we pretty much had a complete version of the record, but Daniel brought with him a lot of fresh ideas, especially in the vocal department, but also in terms of guitar, bass and keyboard arrangements. So even if it took us almost another two years to finally get into the studio, I feel all the extra time we spent polishing the record was worth it. I don’t think the record would have been as…

February 1st, 2024 Features

Rifforia – Ready to Destroy

…d were Yngwie Malmsteen’s band Rising Force and Electric Boys as well. My dad had some heavier stuff, no death metal, but some Metallica, Anthrax, Sepultura. Those were the bands that got me more open to heavier stuff. And then when I became a teenager I got into At the Gates, and I discovered a whole new set of Swedish bands. I think I started playing drums when I was thirteen. My dad also started out as a drummer; he had some old drum stuff in t…

January 22nd, 2024 Reviews

Hiraes – Dormant (Napalm)

…t day standards. It’s ‘blaze of glory’ melodeath, but with just enough somber introspection to shake up the dynamic to keep you on the edge of your listening seat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH8DWtig-Cw&pp=ygUGaGlyYWVz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnFwBzDtpoc&pp=ygUGaGlyYWVz Hiraes official website Hiraes on Facebook…

January 19th, 2024 Reviews

Heavy Sentence – Warriors of Madness (Dying Victims Productions)

…down to earth tones should also be worth their weight in gold – thankfully free of the brick wall grid action that renders many modern records interchangeable. Warriors of Madness aligns well with those early NWOBHM acts from 1979-1982 – doing their best to attract attention in any small pub they could play in, as listeners felt the buzz of heavy metal growing day by day. Heavy Sentence stirs those souls who beckon for the early sounds that show n…

January 18th, 2024 Features

Dissimulator – A Lower Form of Resistance

…itarists. It was in a small venue, 200 capacity. It was the first time… I had already seen some epic metal shows, ridiculous performances with Martyr a couple of times, they always destroyed. That show was the first time I realized that you can write the fastest, most heavy death metal, and it can still breathe, be dynamic. Sometimes it’s a magical thing that you don’t always have even if you have the greatest musicians in the world on stage. Ther…

January 8th, 2024 Reviews

Ryujin – Ryujin (Napalm)

…e and English forms (the English sung by Heafy as the album’s closer). Already well-established as an accomplished guitarist and musician, Ryoji’s latest iteration in Ryujin makes it seem like it’s the right time for his group to take off with more eyes on the Japanese market as of late. Given the larger presence (at least partially due to Heafy and Napalm’s involvement), Ryujin is off to a fantastic start, and should offer a large appeal to fans…

December 24th, 2023 Features

Everdawn – Seek the Silver Lining

…rted from the white space. Our experiences were not lost, the songs we already had for the Cleopatra album were not lost, it was a matter of time that we started again. What was not on our side was COVID-19. That messed up our scheduling, our releases. Everyone was in the same boat with us. Dead Rhetoric: What sort of hobbies, interests, and activities do you like to pursue away from music when you have the free time and energy to do so? Zaks: Not…

December 18th, 2023 Reviews

Bloody Cumshot – Deflorantism (Self-Released)

…r “Strangle Your Life.” If you are wondering where the blackened sprinkles come in, be sure to check out “Tribadism,” where the blasting drums hit with more buzzing riffs and tremolo-esque melodies that twist around the chorus. Falling into that category of ‘I can’t believe it’s one person,’ Bloody Cumshot deliver an explosive dose of Gothenburg-styled melodies updated to modern times that’s sure to win any genre fans over. As a second effort, Def…

December 16th, 2023 Concert Reviews

Cattle Decapitation / Immolation / Sanguisugabogg / Castrator – November 21, 2023 – The Orpheum, Tampa, FL

…one of their best yet, showcasing new creative directions within their already compelling songwriting prowess. Their live shows are an uncontrollable fit of energy and chaos, and this large crowd was more than ready. Cattle Decap emerged focused and prepared to explode, jumping straight into material from Terrasite, starting with the dynamic album opening trio of “Terrasitic Adaptation,” “We Eat Our Young,” and “Scourge of the Offspring.” Vocalist…

December 15th, 2023 Reviews

Therion – Leviathan III (Napalm Records)

…o years came out under the Nuclear Blast fold – but those who have always had a hankering for the broad, theatrical nature to the performances and compositions will be very appeased through these songs. The female / male duality of vocals from soprano singer Lori Lewis and renowned ex-Candlemass vocalist Thomas Vikström keeps the kaleidoscope of options free solely based on the atmosphere or direction of each arrangement. When needing a broader, f…

December 14th, 2023 Features

Axenstar – Victorious Symphony

…videos during the Headbangers Ball / major media channel days of the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s? Winterwild: Anders is a friend of the band as well. He works in a theater here in Uppsala, Sweden. We had contact with him and wanted to do a new music video, he told us to come down to the theater, they have these great lights for a show they were doing. We did it during the day, set up all the lights, it became a really cool video, I guess. You nee…