BAD TASTE! LOUD RIFFS! TOO MUCH CUM!
Septicflesh
Modern Primitive makes orchestral death metal feel urgent again by giving its aggression direction instead of drowning it in decoration.
There are power metal bands, and then there is Majestic Powerfortress: a seven-piece congregation of velvet-clad visionaries who claim to have been formed during a thunderstorm above an enchanted observatory somewhere beyond the measurable boundaries of northern Finland.
Amorphis
Halo wraps Amorphis’ melancholy melodies in muscular production, balancing rich hooks with a few stretches of overextended grandeur.
Sabaton
The War to End All Wars delivers sturdy hooks and battlefield momentum, but Sabaton’s familiar machinery shows through the smoke.
Blind Guardian
Blind Guardian sharpen their grand design into a dense, dramatic album where layered voices and restless guitars serve the songs.
Jinjer
Wallflowers is focused, confrontational and fiercely dynamic: a record where technical power serves a clear emotional and social voice.
Edge Of Sanity
A fractured but compelling Edge of Sanity record, balancing sharp death-metal impact with Dan Swanö’s expanding progressive instincts.
Powerwolf
Call of the Wild has atmosphere and hooks, but Powerwolf’s rigid formula leaves too many songs sounding like alternate costumes on one idea.
Wizardthrone
A dazzling, absurdly ambitious collision of symphonic grandeur, melodic death metal and cosmic excess.
Exhumed
Compact, tightly engineered goregrind that balances speed, riff density and structural control better than its chaos suggests.
Helloween
Helloween’s reunion album is energetic and professional, but its strongest moments come when nostalgia yields to tension.
We sit down and explore melody, precision and progressive songwriting in Vision Divine.