What you could find already in some online shops earlier is now also officially announced - German pirate metal horde Running Wild is releasing a new record on August 26th. The longplayer is entitled "Rapid Foray" and the album comes via Steamhammer/SPV...

(8/10) Metal and comedy goes together very well. Bands like Spinal Taps and Steel Panther are good examples, the latter being still very successful by reaching a bigger crowd of metalheads. Bit there have been also comedians that got a slot on the billing...

(8/10) I think that Piet Sielk's Iron Savior is one lf the most underrated bands in German metal. The guys are delivering, since many years, excellent metal discs with with excellent metal songs. Furthermore the guys received constantly good feedback...

(4/10) "Legends Never Die", even though I must say that Hammercult tries hard. I think it's great to pay homage to bands and songs you like and it goes without saying that the choice of metal classics on this album is very well done. Accept, Motörhead...

(9/10) It took four years for French metal outfit Gojira to work on their next album. First ideas have been gathered by Mario Duplantier already back in 2013 when the band was touring through North America. But one of the main reason for using four years...

(9/10) If these trees could talk, they would tell the story of an instrumental band from Ohio that has released already two records and gaining momentum. If these trees could talk, the story would be about a band that convinced Brain Slagel that much...

(6/10) A joke doesn't get better telling it more often. I had to think about this when I heard Six Feet Under's newest output "666". Chris Barnes and his metal horde added a new disc to their Graveyard Classic series. As the title presumes it's the number...

(8/10) Oh my God, this name is a crackjaw. Who on earth should keep this band name in mind? Maybe it will be there sound that is more exciting than having the right pronounciation. So, who is Sinsaenum? This band is the result of merging Slipknot with...

(7/10) Brazilian Nervosa has their second album out now. "Agony" is the name of the disc that follows the 2014 debut "Victim of Yourself". The ones of you that listened to and liked the debut will also enjoy "Agony". The trio from Sao Paolo put twelve...

(9/10) Rival Sons can look back on a seven years long history and they have been one of the first bands of this retro rock revival that took over during the last years. The guys have been working hard and all the effort resulted in four albums with the...

(8/10) New albums from Finnish soprano Tarja are for quite some metal fans big moments in time. One of these will be June 3rd, when the singer releases her new album "The Brightest Void". It's her forth studio album and since Tarja had a lot of material...

(7/10) Normally I first discover a band on CD, followed by a live show. In this case things have been slightly different. The first time I heard about Stepfather Fred was when I joined the Brainstorm album release show earlier this year. Stepfather Fred...

(8/10) Dark Funeral are some known faces in black metal. Having released five studio albums the band went into many line-up changes which led to a period of seven years without a new album from the Swedish black metal gang. However, waiting is over and...