I.R. ''We’ve always liked the idea that our music should be experienced rather than simply heard. Writing music also involves a whole spectrum of emotions, and when we’re able to convey those emotions through the music, we feel even more connected to what is happening around us, as well as to the audience. I.R is the Bassist/vocalist E-L-R. Music that epitomises a feeling and the weight of its consequence. Hauntingly ethereal yet also crushingly urban, huge riffs and epic ta

Gåte are the creators of wonderfully enchanting music that captures the listener with a sound that is melancholic yet uplifting and wholly satisfying. A combination of the electronic and traditional, the new album is the stunning “Sigil” created of the earth and further proof of their status as one of Norway’s premier bands. Their music is complex yet immediately rewarding, transformational and evocative. It is both emotional and visceral, progressive and accessible . They ha

Мещера – Ritual- Sisters 9/10 Dark atmospheric pagan Black metal artists Meschera (Мещера) have unleashed their latest offering Ritual. A track that begins with its native group chant and summoning of winters embrace. In this instance the band has fully embraced the roots of the inno-Ugric tribe whilst being able to continue the delicate balance between the traditional and the modern. It is a heavy vocal offering and as always, the evocative and commanding voice of Alex

Saor – Caledonia 8.5/10 SAOR (Gaelic and Scottish for free) is the creation of Andy Marshall that since 2013 has ushered in the style of Caledonian (Scotland) Black Metal that merges the traditions of folk and Gaelic with the modern fury of extreme metal.’’ Caledonia’’ is not a new album per se but a reconstruction of five classic tracks from the Roots, Aura, and Guardians eras recorded the way they were always originally intended with the proper resour

Otras - Na Kridlach Morivida 8.5/10 Košice Slovakia madmen Otras return with their only second full-length album after 2024s Čas karhať. The new album ‘Na Kridlach Morivida’ ("On the Wings of the Plague") is the highly aggressive combination of raw speed metal, furious black metal, combined with punk delivered at insane speeds At a mere 32 minutes Na Kridlach Morivida is an album delivered with incredible and the upmost intensity, from the subtle intro to the vibrant speed

Theosophy – Line Before The Event Horizon 8/10 Hailing from the Altai Krai region of Barnaul is Siberia’s Theosophy. They have terrorised the underground since 2004 with their all-out assault of Black Metal. Their seventh album Line Before the Event Horizon continues the mayhem. From the opener, ‘’Path to the Void,” and its full-on attack it is proof that Theosophy excels in crafting well-executed black metal that is raw, icy cold, tempered by manic time changes and frantic

‘’The unity of our mortal summoning cannot be specifically determined. We know that before the transformation during that great blizzard of Råvaskieth's then unknown seventh eclipse, we were mortal souls, musicians, outcasts and astral spacetime thinkers. Those general genetics are still engraved in our mortal shells, and corporeal field, but each of us, retain nothing of who or what each of us where or from whence we came. The only thing each of us remembers from our patheti

Flame – Ignis Draconis Daemonicus 7.5/10 Finland’s Flame are the flag bearers of blasphemous speed infused blackened thrash. Their third release Ignis Draconis Daemonicus marks their return after fifteen years and carries all their hallmarks that are part traditional/ part modern yet all pure metal Flame indulges in old school speed terror; its rapid two four timing and harsh vocals set against a clean sound that is reminiscent of the eighties masters. ‘’Sethanic Sorcery’’

Jim ‘’HKSPK started in 2023. In the beginning, we simply wanted to make music together. There was no huge master plan behind it and certainly no idea that only a few years later we would already be talking about our second album. ‘’The name itself comes from what I would call an absurd and slightly questionable nominal compound. When we needed a band name, we basically threw together several words that came to mind and ended up with something that was probably much funnier to