Yellowtooth hail from Michigan City, Indiana in the US. They feature a quite common line-up of a drummer, a bassist/vocalist and a guitarist/vocalist, and like many before them, they deliver a solid musical punch to the ear of anyone brave enough to listen to their newest album, Crushed by the Wheels of Progress. The album…
Doom metal has always been a fascinating genre too me. It has the capacity to drag you into a melodic world that transfers you to another plane of existence, while simultaneously having the capacity to validate all the stereotypes people that don’t like the genre will throw in your face. The American band Caveat seems…
Det skal sies at det er mange forskjeller mellom Norge og Australia, alt fra skattepolitikk til prisen av melk, men en ting jeg har langt merke til etter fem år i ‘the land down under’ er at konserter er dyre og det er sjeldent at man ser mange band turnere sammen. Det var derfor med…
Finnish quintet Graveyard Shifters are ready with their debut EP, Brainwashed by Moonshine. It is a five track musical journey into a world where punk, hardcore and fast-paced hard rock inspired riffs all live side by side. Sadly, this interesting sound doesn’t always play well with the vocals, which lean more towards a metalcore-ish sound.…
There is something so amazingly frustrating about heavy metal. It can deliver majestic, generation defining material just as easily as it can deliver contrived, uninspired cliché after cliché. It is a genre that can be painstakingly serious one moment, then childishly playful the next. Not to mention that within this one genre you can have…
Austria’s blackened death metal pioneers Belphegor are back with their 10th studio album, ‘Conjuring the Dead’, a 10 track dose of brutality, death and destruction that extends the wobbly career of this darkened quartet into its third decade. The tracks provide a decent mixture of the different styles seen in black metal and death metal,…
Russia and death metal are hardly two things that are often found in the same sentence. In fact, there’s remarkably few metal bands that seem to make an impact on the world stage coming out of that region in general. At this stage it would be easy to launch into a ten page essay as…
French deathcore quintet The Walking Dead Orchestra are ready with their debut album Architects of Destruction and it’s an understatement to say it could’ve used some work. Aligning themselves with bands that think deathcore’s only purpose is to blend tapping drums with screeching guitars and mumbling vocals, the band offers a 12 track album that…
American thrash giants Death Angel are back with a fresh studio effort in the shape of The Dream Calls for Blood, their follow up to 2010’s Relentless Retribution. The album consists of 10 new tracks, taking the listener on a tour de force through the band’s hard hitting, fast flicking, gut wrenching brand of thrash…
Sticking with their pattern of releasing a new record once every other year, the American quartet Red Fang is back with Whales and Leeches, pulling the title of the album from a track off of their 2009 debut album Red Fang. For the sake of order, 2011’s Murder the Mountains fill the gap between the…
Ever since 2011’s Sons of the North, UK powerhouse Black Spiders have made people across this weary land yearn for more of their mix of hard hitting stoner metal and classic rock. This Savage Land kicks off with a cannon to the face in the shape of ‘Knock you out’. It’s the perfect opener, injecting…
"The Water" is a three track EP by the British Alt. Rock duo Blood Red Shoes. Clocking in at a little under ten minutes, the three tracks offer heavy riffs (think The White Stripes) combined with catchy choruses. The tracks offer some basic variation, with the opening track "Red River" peaking out as the EP’s…
I received an album late last year by a band called Oceans of Night. When I say received, I actually mean to say that I requested this album from the bands headmaster Scott Mosher. This album has been lying in my desk drawer ever since it dropped into my mailbox all those months ago, and…
(…this article is in English…)EVILE slapp sitt tredje album "Five Serpent’s Teeth" på slutten av fjoråret og i den forbindelsen gjorde Eternal Terror to intervjuer med lead gitarist Ol Drake. Det første ble gjort av Matt Coe og dette ble publisert i midten av oktober i fjor. Det andre ble noe forsinket grunnet misforståelser og ting og tang, og kommer først nå. Det er Ole-Kristian Solberg, vår mann på den andre siden av jordkloden som har stått for spørsmålene denne gangen.
Coming at you like a dog out of hell’s gate, the opening track for Strength Approach’s “With or Without You” sets the tone for what is too come: eleven tracks of gut bursting, neck twisting hardcore, worthy of a spot on even the most trend obsessed metal head’s playlist. With a musical landscape reminiscent of…
Med store forventninger og stor konsert lyst hånd i hånd dro jeg den lange veien fra Sandefjord til Drammen, Buskeruds navle, for å se Valentourettes, et band som er satt sammen av tidligere support band til avdøde Joachim ‘Jokke’ Nilsen. De spiller kun Jokke sanger som en hyllest til mannen de spilte med før i…
Hailing from Europe’s forgotten pearl of Malta, Nomad Son delivers heavy, drony guitar driven doom metal with keyboards tastefully added as instrumental relief, helping to drive the music out of predictability and repetition. The band specialises in two very distinct sounds, the first being the classic doom sound of slow, drawn out guitars with steady…
The Ritual is ready with their debut album ‘Beyond the Fragile Horizon’, continuing the always popular sound scape metal meets melody. It starts of with the album’s namesake ‘Beyond the Fragile Horizon’, an instrumental which fades into “Hysteria and Madness”, a song capturing the bands two faces without really living up to its full potential.…
Recorded as part of the ‘Alone I Play’ tour in 2008, ‘Live at the Union Chapel’ gives fans a chance to hear rarely played tracks as well as live favourites performed by the voice of Korn, Jonathan Davis. The supreme recording quality of the album gives very few hints that it is a live album…
The American progressive pioneers in Dream Theater are back with their eleventh full length studio effort, “A Dramatic Turn of Events”. The album opens quite melodically with a double shot of controlled musical episodes in the latest nine track saga by the American five-piece. The instrumental diversity on “On the Back of Angels” and “Build…
