•   20th February, 2026Camden Town, London As the winter is dragging it’s damp heels, it came as a sweet relief to find The Dev pub toasty warm. We can imagine that temperatures will only rise tonight as we came to…

    struck a nerve (live) at the dev
  • A review by Gioia – Napierdalac launch into 2026 by revisiting their debut single, Feasting Upon the Corpse of the Lord. It feels less like a simple re-release and more like a deliberate sharpening of a track that clearly matters…

    NAPIERDALAC – Feasting Upon the Corpse of the Lord (Single Remade!) Review
  • Death Metal Japan Released 26th January, 2026  The Nagano City natives have made a bold choice for their second album, NOCTURNAL VISIONS. Where INVICTUS’ 2020 debut was a hammer to the face in brutal death metal with a dark, thrash…

    invictus-nocturnal visions (album) review
  •  Death/Groove Metal Poland Released 30th January, 2026  Ah, the mega highway that is “groove”. Where does one definitively put a finger on that term in terms of metal music?  It seems absolutely anywhere and everywhere, but things get blurry when defining it…

    banisher – metamorphosis (album) review
  •    Psychedelic/Stoner Rock New Zealand Released 30th January  2026  For a band coming from such a green and temperate island, they certainly have some desert dust in their boots.  The four piece hailing from the capital of Wellington have followed up…

    planet hunter – soothsayer (album) review
  • A Review by Gioia – Terramorta return with The Fading Lumina’s Embrace, a confident step into a more focused blend of black, death, and symphonic metal. The album is cinematic and atmospheric, balancing brutality with orchestral depth and a strong sense…

    TERRAMORTA – The Fading Lumina’s Embrace (Album) Review
  • Gothic Death Metal Netherlands Released 19th January, 2026 The Groningen quintet galvanise their gothic sound with album number 2. Although, technically this is SAD WHISPERINGS first proper album, it’s only a name change from The Bleeding (and the odd replacing…

    SAD WHISPERINGS – THE HERMIT (ALBUM) REVIEW
  • Death/Thrash MetalSwitzerland Released 16th January, 2026 on Testimony Records It must be a great and proud moment when you release an album. That hard slog writing, rehearsing and getting it down perfect for, not just the fans, but also an…

    Review – Total Annihilation – Mountains Of Madnesss
  • A review by Gioia- Karnivrous’ “We Let Them In” is a heavy, ambitious EP that blends deathcore brutality with groove, dissonance, and flashes of progressive and djent style precision. The first track, Kaiju, sets the record straight immediately, starting with…

    KARNIVROUS – We Let Them In (EP) review
  • Fracture Point join our friends in Regicide for a trip to the south coast as they head to The Hobbit in Southampton on the 13th February for this FREE ENTRY rager

    Fracture Point at The Hobbit