cd review

Potential Threat SF is coming from San Francisco and they are no newcomers in the scene. The band started already in the end of the eighties as Potential Threat and added the ‘SF’ later on in order to avoid misunderstandings with the British punk band...

Chimaira released a new album called “Crown of phantoms” a few days ago. Compared to the previous album the band looks very different. Except bandleader Mark Hunter the whole crew changed. But that fortunately haven’t had an effect on the songs and the...

CJSS released a 'new' album called "Metal treasures". Actually the album is basically a "Best of..." from the two CJSS albums "World gone and" and "Praise the loud". Both were released in the mid-80's by David T. Chastain. That was the time when David...

End Of Green is already 21 years in business and comes originally from Stuttgart, Germany. They play dark metal and were already on tour together with e.g. Paradise Lost. A few days ago released their 8th album "The painstream" a few days ago. Since their...

This album is the surprise of the month to me. Of course we know Robin Beck from the eighties, when she had her big hit(s) "First time". But she had also more really great hardrock songs like "Save up all your tears". The whole album "All or nothing"...

The waiting has an end. The new Watain album called “The wild hunt” is out. Since “Lawless darkness”, their latest album, was a very strong one I was curious if the band can keep this level or get even one step further. After listening to the album for...

This is the review of one of the most under estimated bands and records. It is about "Under the spell" of Hexx. The album was released in 1986 and is the second record of the band. When I bought the vinyl (who still knows what this is?) I was 18 and the...

This EP is not new. It was released in 2011, but it hardly haven't got any attention. I got this record a few weeks ago and I have to say that I was impressed. Hotrod Mayhem is actually a side project of Michael from Dryrot and Joschi from Undertow. The...

Wow, this is a surprise - a great album. US band Dark Design will release their debut album "Prey for the future" in September. They are coming from Raleigh (NC) and play technical power thrash. I was reminded to Sanctuary, Nevermore, Anacrusis and the...

UK death metal band Merciless Terror will release their new album in October this year. The album will be called "Vile extinction and is, as far as I know, the first full-length record of the band. Two years ago they released already an EP called "Perpetual...

August 23 is the release date for the new Annihilator album. The good thing with Annihilator nowadays is, that the line-up seems to be more stable than in the past which definitely contributes to good song writing. "Feast", that's the title of the record,...

Ministry was dead in 2008 before Al Jourgensen decided to revitalize the band 3 years later. It’s good to have Ministry back, but the band and esp. Al seems to be still very fragile due to health issues. Now Ministry released their new live album “Enjoy...

US dark metal band Cold Colours released their new album called also "Cold colours". The band is mainly Brian James Huebner. The rest of the band went through some changes over the last years. The band is not new since they released their first album...

I noticed Forgotten Realm by coincident and I asked myself why I haven't noticed them earlier. The album in this review is not new, but it is really good and maybe a lot of others haven't heard about the either. The album was released in 2008, so 5 years...