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RHYS' RE: VIEWZ VOL.21. - EXTREME METAL ENTITIES - Persefone, Non Opus Dei, Helmskey, Kalodin, Messor, Dark Order, True, Moon, Vulture Of Corpse, Magnus, Await The End, Throes Of Dawn
By Rhys on Sep 2, 2010 | In Reviews, Features | Send feedback »
PERSEFONE 'Shin-Ken' KOLONY Sounds echo from the Pyrenees as Andorra's only (yes only) active metal band Persefone come back with number three entitled 'Shin-Ken' and with it they still carry the flag of Andorra for their Metal scene. Submitting me… more »
ANN S. PRESENTS - AN INTERVIEW WITH NIILO AND VILLE F. (INSOMNIUM)
By Ann Sulaiman on Sep 1, 2010 | In Background, Features, Features, Features | Send feedback »
You know, I wonder if people are indeed born with silver spoons in their mouths. If so, then I'm tempted to believe that right away for Finnish melodic death metallers Insomnium; since not only do I consider them highly talented and poetic but they'll al… more »
RHYS' RE: vIEWZ VOL.20. - WEST EUROPE WARRIORS - Hymir, Defeat Lies Ahead, Fuck Your Shadow From Behind, Soulgate's Dawn, Anhedone, Outcast, Quaedt
By Rhys on Aug 29, 2010 | In Reviews, Features | Send feedback »
HYMIR 'Nyctophobia' Dutch Blackened Death quintet Hymir scores their debut album 'Nyctophobia' with a blistering collection of darkness, sincerity and lustre within each track. Although they have symphonic influences as well, the vocals are not as we… more »
RHYS' RE: VIEW VOL.19. - TOUR DE BRITAIN - Fyrdsman, Seregon, Echovirus, Ravens Creed, Forchristsake, Wintersoul, Tormented Vision, Merciless Terror, Severenth, Shieldwall, Jack's Family, CB6
By Rhys on Aug 29, 2010 | In Reviews, Features | Send feedback »
FYRDSMAN 'Forgotten Beneath The Soil' MYNYDD DU Signed to Welsh label Mynydd Du Records, Farnborough's one man project Fyrdsman (pseudonym of Tim Shaw of who many will recognize as Alestorm's former guitarist) has shed Black Metal (namely Melodic B… more »
RHYS' RE: VIEWZ VOL.18. - EUROMETALVISION - North From Here, Vault Of Pain, Lost Dreams, Shear, Stribog, Heaven Grey, Horn Of The Rhino, Darchaic, Mordax, Rise To Fall
By Rhys on Aug 27, 2010 | In Reviews, Features | Send feedback »
NORTH FROM HERE 'Demonic Token' German Melodic Death Metallers North From Here unleash their brutality in the form of their debut album 'Demonic Token'. Taking the general basis of Melodic Death Metal and adding synthetic melodies from the keyboard t… more »
RHYS' RE: VIEWZ VOL.17. - BULLET FOR MY BRAIN - Corporal Jigsore, Sadoplague, Alice Through The Windshield Glass, Betsy Charge, De Natura Daemonium, Karl Sanders, Ground To Dust, Pathogen, Imperious Satan
By Rhys on Aug 26, 2010 | In Reviews, Features | Send feedback »
CORPORAL JIGSORE 'Religious Genocide' METAL PRIEST Bolivian (yes Bolivian) Death Metal duo (once was quartet) return with their sophomore album 'Religious Genocide', fast obliterating Death Metal is exerted with some of the fastest blastbeats on th… more »
And now: something completely different.
By Ann Sulaiman on Aug 26, 2010 | In Features | Send feedback »
A post about gender and metal. Or rather, yet another post out there on the Internet about gender and metal. We already know that metal is a male-dominated sphere, and that as with other genres of music there exists a degree of sexism and even miso… more »
RHYS' RE: VIEWZ VOL.16. - METAL MASSACRE - Debauchery, Morgue Orgy, Hell Darkness, Prophecy Within, Finnr's Cane, Hybris, Barbaros, Mechanical God Creation, Surrounded By Disgust, Obsidia
By Rhys on Aug 25, 2010 | In Reviews, Features | Send feedback »
DEBAUCHERY 'Rockers & War' AFM German Death Metal heavyweights make it six with 'Rockers & War'. Released in 2009, the German quintet break the rules of Death Metal and string together their own style involving blood, gore, sexy women and o… more »
RHYS' RE: VIEWZ VOL.15. - METAL MILESTONE - Balance Interrvption, Deathsaint, Acephala, Scrambled Defuncts, Perversus Stigmata, Death Toll, In December, Posithrone, Tor Marrock, Empty Dreams
By Rhys on Aug 23, 2010 | In Reviews, Features | Send feedback »
BALANCE INTERRVPTION 'Era I: Nuclear War For Rescue (2nd Edition) MORE HATE PRODS. Ukrainian Black Metallers retell the horrors humanity has caused themselves to be at fault for, right from the first track 'Chernobyl' to the end of their debut albu… more »
RHYS' RE: VIEWZ VOL.14. - ALBUMS OF ARCHITECTURE- Oomph!, Black Messiah, Arcanum Sanctum, Raventhrone, Fitcage, Epping Forest, Hexxed, Ruthless Order, Ayera, A New Dawn
By Rhys on Aug 22, 2010 | In Reviews, Features | Send feedback »
OOMPH! 'Truth Or Dare' GUN / SONY BMG Long standing German Industrial Goth Metallers Oomph! have made their discography bilingual with their latest compilation album 'Truth Or Dare' which features sixteen of their best ever singles remixed into the… more »
RHYS' RE: VIEWZ VOL.13. - UNHOLY BLESSINGS - Pestilent Grave, Drephjard, Diabolicon, Harza, Svart, Nephrolith, Skogen, Drapsnatt, Infer.
By Rhys on Aug 22, 2010 | In Reviews, Features | Send feedback »
PESTILENT GRAVE 'Esoteric Blasphemy' SVARTGALGH Chester-based Black Metal project Pestilent Grave sought 2009 as the unholy year and at it's most apt point to release his first EP 'Esoteric Blasphemy'. Recently he has moved to The Netherlands, home… more »
RHYS' RE: VIEWZ VOL.12. - AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 SONGS - Serenity Dies, Myraeth, The Cleaner, Cause Of Death, Wound Upon Wound, Xerión, Aperion, Bast.
By Rhys on Aug 21, 2010 | In Reviews, Features | Send feedback »
SERENITY DIES 'Hacksawcracy' Maldives, a place where most folk associate it with sandy beaches, rich blue seas, peaceful tranquility and exotic landscapes, however tuning your ears towards Malé and you will find Serenity Dies shredding Thrash Metal a… more »
RHYS' RE: VIEWZ VOL.11. - BULLDOZING THE BENELUX - Bodyfarm, Posthuman, Retrace My Fragments, Black September, Huldrefolk, Prejudice,
By Rhys on Aug 20, 2010 | In Reviews, Features | Send feedback »
BODYFARM 'Bodyfarm' Walking through a battlefield is like walking into the deepest depths of hell, listening to Bodyfarm is like raiding a sweet shop, exhilarating. Dutch Death Metallers Bodyfarm take the military and death approach to their music fr… more »
RHYS' RE: VIEWZ VOL.10. - SOUTH AMERICAN SUMMER ASSAULT - Drakher, Perpetuum, Nova Orbis, Dying, Infection, Abrekadaver, Kaoscentrica
By Rhys on Aug 19, 2010 | In Reviews, Features | Send feedback »
DRAKHER 'Rejector' AUSTRALIS Chilean Heavy Metal ensemble Drakher took Iron Maiden and Latinized them, by performing screeching and down-tone guitars along with ever-changing beats and differentiating vocals do Drakher cause a stir along the Pacifi… more »
ANN S. REVIEWS - KING OF ASGARD AND VOID OF SILENCE!
By Ann Sulaiman on Aug 18, 2010 | In Reviews, Features | Send feedback »
KING OF ASGARD - 'FI'MBULVINTR'METAL BLADE; 2010From the name alone and with the added knowledge that they seem to fall under the now ubiquitous "viking metal" label; one would be forgiven for assuming that King of Asgard are a run-of-the-mill band, ridi… more »
RHYS' RE: VIEWZ VOL.9. - DIGITAL AGE - Psycho Choke, Cerekloth, Deiphago, Demonic Resurrection, Far West Battlefront, Krisis, Muerte Por Mil Cortes, Trustno1
By Rhys on Aug 17, 2010 | In Reviews, Features | 1 feedback »
PSYCHO CHOKE 'Unraveling Chaos' 7Hard Greek Groove Thrash/Metalcore outfit Psycho Choke fire up the ballistic assaults with their latest release 'Unraveling Chaos', taking style of music like Bleeding Through and adding Cavalera Conspiracy style mu… more »
HEVY FEST 2010 - THROUGH THE EYES OF THE ARBER
By Amanda on Aug 17, 2010 | In Background, Features, Features, Features | Send feedback »
The first weekend of August saw Hevy Fest, a somewhat baby festival take place at Port Lympne Animal Park. A pretty mixed line-up with local bands playing during the set up of main stage bands like Gallows and Fucked Up and metal veterans Sepultura playi… more »
RHYS' RE: VIEWZ VOL.666. - GLOBAL METAL - Destiny In Chains, Arthimoth, Crackdust, Scarab, Bohema, Terrordrome, Melechesh, Storm, Sakadoya, Black Warrant, Murder The Frail, Nazca, Necropollis
By Rhys on Aug 17, 2010 | In Reviews, Features | Send feedback »
DESTINY IN CHAINS 'DemoniZed' Surging underneath the underground Metal scene is Egypt's Destiny In Chain, a five-piece Metalcore assembly. Fusing screamo with Heavy Metal and the dubious genre Hardcore, Destiny In Chains resurrected the brutality of… more »
RHYS' RE: VIEWZ VOL.8. - ASIAN ARMAGEDDON - Aras, Arallu, Humiliation, DCA, Evil Days, Ngu Cung, Ston'd, Dark Fount
By Rhys on Aug 17, 2010 | In Reviews, Features | Send feedback »
ARAS 'Hemaseye Andooh' RAGNAROK Persian (Iranian) Black Metal is probably one of the most controversial genres in the Muslim world, and in a country such as Iran where no CD's are sold, American label Ragnarok Records took the reigns of this one ma… more »
MUNICIPAL WASTE ANNOUNCE NEW EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
By Ann Sulaiman on Aug 15, 2010 | In News, Background, News, News, Features | Send feedback »
Virginian cross-over thrashers Municipal Waste have recently informed the public that they finally going to commence with a European tour this winter; after having been unable to do so during the initial summer dates due to family emergencies. Accordin… more »
