The Danish death/thrash metal outfit known as Chronicle released this rather excellent 5-track EP last year, and I must say that I am glad that I managed to get my filthy paws on this one. While I really do like the band’s previous releases, "Memento Mori" is without a shadow of doubt their best one…
The experimental Norwegian entity that is Dimension F3H, which is spearheaded by Morfeus (vocals, guitars, keyboards, and electronic mind-manipulation), has always been an intriguing and captivating musical force to me. Ever since the debut album, the 2003 effort entitled "Reaping the World Winds", was unleashed upon the unsuspecting masses, the band has evolved into an ever-unpredictable and innovative thing with a sound and an identity of its own. The mixture and blending of different genres such as black metal, industrial, electronic music, thrash metal, and so on is simply mind-blowingly awesome. The latest album, "This Mechanical World", stands tall and proud as the band’s most cohesive, coherent, and all-around compelling output to date. Eternal Terror Live had to have a chat with the warped mind behind it all, i.e. Mr. Morfeus. Read on, fuckbags.
The ever-reliable HNE Recordings recently released this killer 2CD expanded edition by the legendary NWOBHM outfit that is Samson and we might as well start out by stating that you ought to pick up on this if no-frills, old-school metal drives you crazy. While the 16-page booklet filled with interviews and sleeve notes and so…
Truth be told, I was neither impressed nor blown away by Piledriver’s 2016 release entitled "Brothers in Boogie". Therefore, I did not exactly have high expectations to this new live package of theirs appropriately titled "The Boogie Brothers Live in Concert" when it landed in my pile of stuff to review. Luckily, it turned out…
The British prog rock outfit A Formal Horse (you gotta love that band name!) recently released this excellent 5-track EP entitled "Made in Chelsea" both digitally and on CD. Boasting an organic production and a crunchy sound, the band wastes no time in captivating the listener by means of its compelling song material as opening…
I think it is fair to say that many of us have longed for an in-depth biography on the legendary punk rock pioneers The Damned. Bizarre myths, strange legends, interesting lies, crappy half-truths, and pretty much everything in between all of those things have clouded and obscured the true story of the Damned and its…
The German power metal quartet Primal Fear recently released this live offering via Frontiers and it is a decent albeit unremarkable collection of tunes covering most of the band’s discography. The package consists of a 15-track CD as well as a DVD, but only the CD audio were available for review for some lame reason,…
This excellent book on Deep Purple’s immortal In Rock album by authors Simon Robinson and Stephen Clare is a thoroughly detailed analysis and close study of the aforementioned masterpiece, which is to say that this 168-page thing of beauty discusses each and every conceivable aspect of the events leading up to the writing of the…
A lot of musically exciting and mind-blowing things are happening in the Icelandic metal underground these days. Well, actually, lots of cool things have been happening in that particular part of the scene for years now, but that is beside the point. What matters here is that the obscure and wonderfully mysterious entity that is…
The barbaric Texan black metal horde known as Pandaemonum recently released this rather repulsive and interesting live EP consisting of three semi-long and well-written tunes via Bandcamp, which is to say that we are dealing with a digital release here. While live offerings by black metal outfits usually fail to spark the fire and energy…
The semi-legendary NWOBHM outfit that is Thunderstick has returned from beyond the grave, which ought to be a cause for celebration for a lot of you filthy heavy metal freaks out there. The fact that this 2017 effort is the first new material from the band in something along the lines of 33 years is…
The Swedish outfit named Adrenaline Rush recently released this great slab of kick-ass hard rock entitled "Soul Survivor", which consists of 12 tracks with an awful lot of drive and energy to them. The 2014 debut album showed a lot of potential and this time around the song material has more depth, substance, and grit…
"Uncommon People" by author David Hepworth is an incredibly well-written and moving account of some of the most pivotal events and happenings in the history of rock ‘n’ roll from the 1950s up to and including the 1990s when the age of the rock star pretty much came to an end. Now, summing up what…
Vår danske venn Jens Nepper har tatt en nærmere titt på RAINBOW "On Stage" og har skrevet denne artikkelen om skiva.
I was really looking forward to checking this 2017 effort by the Italian power metal sextet named Labÿrinth out. After all, the band has released some cool albums in the past and I was intrigued by the prospect of immersing myself in this brand new 12-track record of theirs. With an impressive line-up consisting of…
The renowned hard rock/melodic heavy metal act that is House of Lords recently released this 11-track album of theirs via Frontiers and the result is a satisfying one. Boasting strong melodic hooks and some really cool song arrangements, there is very little not to like about House of Lords’ 11th album. Guitarist Jimi Bell is…
The Brazilian power metal outfit TraumeR is about to unleash this 13-track album entitled "The Great Metal Storm" via Fastball Music. Quite the over-the-top title, eh? Actually, "The Great Metal Storm" is an expanded re-issue in that it was originally released back in 2014, but it is now being given wider distribution by Fastball Music…
The twisted Russian trio named VTTA impressed me quite a lot last year by means of its "On the Vortex of Chasing the Abyss of Despair" EP, so naturally I was looking forward to this new EP of theirs entitled "My Sickle", which was released via Nomos Dei Productions back in April. While VTTA is…
12. januar i år var det 30 år siden Deep Purple slapp albumet "The House of Blue Light" og i den forbindelsen har vår skrivekyndige danske venn Jens Nepper skrevet denne artikkelen.
I was fortunate enough to get my crippled hands on this excellent split album consisting of three songs by the French black metal outfit known as Wolok and three songs by the Russian black metal horde named Rotting Heaven. Musically and lyrically speaking, this album is indeed a foul journey though otherworldly spheres. Dark, twisted,…
