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Ignea – Beyond the Realms of Fire and Death
Ignea are a five-piece metal band from Kiev, Ukraine. They began under the moniker Parallax in 2013. After getting serious they discovered how many bands shared their namesake, making potential marketing impossible. “There was a moment when we got more serious and understood our music and the approach was changing. In terms of promotion it was a dead end,” vocalist/lyricist Helle Bogdanova says. “...[Read More]
Into Pandemonium – Darkest Rise
Straight from the depths and darkest corners of the Dayton, Ohio metal family comes the conjuring of 6-piece extreme band Into Pandemonium. They’ve used guitar strings and drum sticks to paint broad genre-crossing strokes tapping black, extreme and technical death with vocal experimentation beyond growls and screams. The young blood drips like a sacrificial chalice fermenting a new brew from a new...[Read More]
Annihilator – Ballistic, Sadistic
Annihilator has spent the last three-and-a-half decades churning out consistent, adrenalized thrash ready and worthy of any pit since the VHS and cassette days of ’84. Despite lineup changes, the name has been kept alive by Jeff Waters keeping vintage fans and gaining new ones. Ballistic Sadistic is the newest thrash serving from the Canadian veterans. It’s a fast, technical throwback to earlier w...[Read More]
Crystal Viper Melt Ears with Fire and Ice
Since 2003 Polish singer Marta Gabriel has led the charge, helming heavy metal’s Crystal Viper. A band formed from a revolving mish-mash of musicians and recordings. Its formal infancy began in 2006 with its first official lineup and 2007 debut, The Curse of the Crystal Viper. An EP followed in ’08 with a second full length and new members in ’09. In ’10 they released Legends, an album featuring ...[Read More]
Aria Release Epic Guest from the Kingdom of Shadows DVD
On April 30th Russian veteran metal band Aria played a massive show at the CSKA Arena formally known as the VTB Ice Palace and Legends Arena in Moscow for an all ages, sold out crowd supporting their latest record Curse of the Seas.The bombastic, visually stunning set was filmed multi-cam for a live CD/DVD release, now available. A three-level stage and screen captured what the band is visually ca...[Read More]
Necronomicon – Unus
The sounds and audio spells from Canada’s extreme music benders Necronomicon have carried into late 2019 with a new stirring opus combing styles, structures and genres molded into their world venturing down new pathways, producing a unique product all their own. They’ve gone Beyond Thunderdome so to speak on new record Unus. They’ve made a career pulling the teeth from traditional death metal usin...[Read More]
Per Wiberg – Head Without Eyes
Lou Reed meets Mushroomhead is one way Per Wiberg’s mini collection of emotion bending, brain stirring tunes could be deciphered. Songs that need a few listens to truly understand everything that’s happening within, processing all effects and messages intended. Nuance and detail are used in fine tuned fashion, while the experience is like a slow heavy machine churning out sound, mixed together and...[Read More]
No Fear of the Reapers in Newport
April 6, the final stop of September Mourning’s most recent soul collection came to an end, just over the bridge in Newport, KY. Though the dark glistening waters rippled September’s glowing face, the band made plenty of noise at The Thompson House. It was a fitting final show for the musical reapers to play in a haunted building in front of the Cincinnati, Kentucky and elsewhere devotees. For th...[Read More]
HorrorHound: A Decade of Fandom Celebrated in Sharonville
The weekend of March 15th-17th, The Queen City hosted three days, 10 years in the making. The Sharonville Convention Center filled to the rafters as ghouls, killers and otherworldly specters roamed the halls as bats swarmed and swooped in the belfry. Fans, hardcore devotees and other beings jammed the halls to pick up swag, meet guests or just see scary stuff as the Jimmy Psycho Experiment played ...[Read More]
Another Day Dawns : A Different Life
This year marks nine years of dedication, hard work and constant shows by Lehighton, Pennsylvania’s hard rock outfit Another Day Dawns. Playing covers to start, the addition of singer Dakota Sean moved them toward original inspiration with material coming fast gaining attention and a following around the area. Over time they earned opening spots with Avatar, Sammy Hagar, Godsmack, 5 Finger...[Read More]
The Scabby Ghouls Come Forth
Since the early days horror and punk have had a side by side, lurid, on stage and screen relationship. Horror and all its monstrous, bloody creations have shared inspiration with painted up performers donning the look of the undead as mobile corpses, dressed up or rotting, have shared screen time with humans in countless movies since the golden age of film. Whether it was flesh ripping zombies or ...[Read More]
Dark Mirror Ov Tragedy – The Lord Ov Shadows
Dangerous Toys, Carach Angren and Cradle of Filth might be considered an unlikely combination, which perfectly mirrors the musical sentiment of South Korean symphonic black metal brood Dark Mirror ov Tragedy. Conjured to being in 2003, their sixth mixture of off elements takes an old school black metal approach, as the symphony meets the coven. Their music, echoing influence from the basement dun...[Read More]