Folk metal is a party. Period. Strapped indoors with a pandemic out there, I am left with fewer options to have a good time. Folk metal’s party vibes come to my rescue and what better way to usher in 2021 with Finnish folk geniuses [...]
“In Remembrance” kicks-off Tribulation’s new record at the beginning of the end. A requiem for the living, the narrator remembers being “led by the devil, a possession in blood, a dance in the absence of God.” The soundtrack [...]
It’s a classic story. A young kid, in a room, with a guitar. Born in Newtownards, County Down in Northern Ireland, Ricky Warwick acquired his first electric guitar at thirteen years old. Since then, he has gone from strength to rock ‘n’ [...]
I don’t think there is anything for me to say about Accept that haven’t been said already. Perhaps the most iconic German heavy metal band of all time, these guys are responsible for presenting heavy metal to a legion of people and for [...]
Dutch legends Asphyx have been around for over 30 years now and their early 90s gems are still considered to be among the best and as landmarks in death metal. Asphyx’s style of doomy pulls before the nasty grimy death metal punches have been a [...]
It’s that time of year again. The time when Spotify creeps into your emails while you sleep and drops off unsolicited playlists entitled “end of year wrap-up” into your inbox. Later that morning, over coffee, you check it out, expecting [...]
On January 22, 2021, Brazilian thrash-death metal band Nervosa will release their fourth album called Perpetual Chaos. This title is apt given the hell of a year we have endured in 2020 with more chaos surely to follow in 2021. Nervosa have recorded a [...]
Politics, philosophy, self-loathing, current events, the state of the world. Most fans of hardcore have come to expect these types of topics to be expressed on any given album. One should come away from listening to such an album feeling [...]
