BATTERING RAM – Second To None

RELEASE YEAR: 2022 BAND URL: http://www.battering-ram.com/ The Swedish hard rock and heavy metal quartet Battering Ram struck again a couple months ago with their sophomore release after the acclaimed eponymous²⁰²⁰ which I had reviewed here (4.5/6) having taken notice of the talent and potential while pointing out the usual trappings of the debuts: the inconsistent…

TOMB OF FINLAND – Across The Barren Fields

RELEASE YEAR: 2022 BAND URL: https://tomboffinland.fi/ Don’t you love it when a band with a generic name (and their country’s name in the moniker to boot) releases a great album? Such is the case with the, to me at least, previously unknown Finnish melodic doom/death metal act Tomb Of Finland (told you so!) and their…