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December 15th, 2023 Reviews

Sorcerer – Reign of the Reaper (Metal Blade)

…eatest Sorcerer song delivered to date. Elements of the devil himself vocally as well as musically creep in to segments of the title track, while vocalist Anders Engberg uses his resourceful bellow in lower to mid-range capacity for the majestic “Unveiling Blasphemy”. Consciously focusing on shorter or faster material next to the expected epic doom traits gives a bit more explosive energy when taking in songs such as “Thy Kingdom Will Come” as wel…

December 15th, 2023 Reviews

Therion – Leviathan III (Napalm Records)

…ut any sense of ear fatigue. The finale “Twilight of the Gods” possesses a bit of a Tony Martin-esque Black Sabbath flavor musically, while the operatic choir parts extend the throwback nature – hundreds of years of influences all converging as one. For this scribe, Therion were at their best during the Theli through Secret of the Runes studio album period – since then, certain releases have been as strong while others a bit weaker. Leviathan III…

December 14th, 2023 Features

Axenstar – Victorious Symphony

…visualized the cover. It took some time, but we feel the end result is really great. Absolutely this cover is in the old, power metal style. Like many other people, I don’t buy as many records anymore – I usually listen to music on Spotify. But if you go to a record store and look at the covers, I think the cover should really mirror what the sound is like. I think it’s important, but not as important as it has been in the past. You had to go down…

December 12th, 2023 Features

High Spirits – Investigate the Other Side

…fan support, festival opportunities that it built up around that were totally overwhelming. Totally unexpected. Right away I was in this uncharted territory. There’s no playbook, there’s no script to follow in this profession if you want to say, or any kind of artistic pursuit. I did what I thought was for the best. Set a deadline for You Are Here, took a big advance, bought some recording gear that I thought I was going to be able to use right ou…

December 11th, 2023 Reviews

Astray Valley – Midnight Sun (Art Gates Records)

…o deliver powerful tracks that have that x factor to cement themselves deeply into the heads (and hearts) of headbangers everywhere. As a singer Clau Violette possesses that multiple threat angle of serene, clean melodies plus ripping screams to tear limbs as much as captivate in capable, memorable ways. When they wish to add a bit of djent, stunted work into the normal alternative/groove metal mix, you’ll get a Gojira meets Jinjer-like atmosphere…

December 10th, 2023 Features

Gama Bomb – Exploring New Adventures

…long period of time. We were able to work on this for a long time, obviously separately because of the time period. Because of the pandemic, it necessitated how we went about writing the songs over lockdown. We made a great album previously with Sea Savage, so we were happy with this new way of writing. I think before Sea Savage was out, we even started working on songs for this record. Philly: We had done a demo. We’ve been very lucky with these…

December 9th, 2023 Features

Kaivs – Decisively Carving Forward

…Kaivs’ sound is deeply rooted in old school Swedish death metal of the early 90s, especially with the guitar work. What kind of inspirations do you draw from that scene, and what elements do you try to incorporate into your music? Foam: We try to do it in our own way, you know? I can’t invent anything today, but we try to have something personal. Death metal is unconventional, scary – it’s not mainstream! As always, we required the Boss HM-2 peda…

December 7th, 2023 Features

Earthside – Turning Challenges into Opportunity

…cts. We viewed this record as an opportunity to firm that stuff up and really apply cinematic moods and instrumentation in the presentation of it – to make those elements more of a defining feature. Having this short film experience, in a track that really is so about the mood and scoring of it. You don’t hear drums for like 5-minutes! So that was a big part of the driving motivation – to have something out in that time period that suited the musi…

December 6th, 2023 Reviews

Rome in Monochrome – AbyssUs (Art Gates Records)

…but the crux of the band’s songwriting and performance delight sits squarely on the shoulders of these main musicians – the eight tracks wistfully casting shadows into these emotions and painful memories much like their influence bank of Opeth, Katatonia, and others in that category. Occasional circular spirals of music drift beyond into intoxicating passages of beauteous wonderment. Listen to the closing minute-plus instrumental to softer vocal…