With their first full length (a previous label sampler notwithstanding) the Portuguese Sepulcros show attentiveness to album-shaping, and a careful approach to the craft....

Raw black metal from Portugal

Doesn't tap as much into the possibilities of a four-track concept release about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as it could have, but does deliver more-than-solid songs and suitable panache.

I'm a new fan of Numenorean. Though it had only been a couple of months since I discovered their excellent 2019 album Adore, I...

It’s interesting to think that “heavy metal” once described a very specific style of music, rather than simply being a blanket term for a...

Portugal’s Machinergy cover the standard death/thrash bases with a respectable enthusiasm. What’s mind blowing about Sounds Evolution is just how professional it sounds, despite...

Before there was death metal or black metal, there was Hellhammer, which later developed into the mighty Celtic Frost. The music produced by both...

Cheese is a funny thing. A few years ago I was staying at the house of a particularly annoying relative, who asked me to...

It’s surprising to me that a blend like this hasn’t been attempted more often. Melodic death metal and thrash seems like such an easy...