Category: Review

  • Industrial Metal Australia Released 20th February, 2026 Although originally released as a six track EP, HIDE FROM THE LIGHT has been given LP status with the addition of three more hymns to hysteria. If the fact that, right now, it…

    diesect- hide from the light (album) review
  • A review by Gioia – Worship The Sacrifice are the London based Death Dealers!! Veil of Revelations is their new EP and it hits like a hammer, a compact release that never loses momentum. Across the songs they blend melody…

    WORSHIP THE SACRIFICE – Veil of Revelations (EP) Review
  • Thrash/Metalcore UK Released 20th February, 2026   Maybe it’s because I’m old, or maybe I’m looking at it all wrong but, considering metalcore has been with us for a quarter of a century, you would think I’d have it pinned…

    sylosis- the new flesh (album) review
  •  Death metal Australia  Released 4th February, 2026.  The five piece from Narrm (Melbourne) return after the release of the 2024 split EP with fellow Narrm reidents Burn In Hell, to decimate once again. This time, with a full album stashed in…

    tumour- human salvage (album) review
  • 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