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Check out all our Upcoming Release announcements New release from: ACCEPT – Too Mean To Die (January 29, 2021) ACCEPT are back! The German kingpins of heavy metal will release their new, eagerly-awaited studio album via Nuclear Blast on January 29th 2021. The ingenious title of the masterpiece is Too Mean To Die. Special circumstances […]
Background Info! After a 3-year wait, Arkansas doom inspired metal outfit Pallbearer are back with a brand new album called Forgotten Days. Eight songs of dark and doomy vibes with a prog edge. The 4-piece have been around since 2008 when Brett Campbell (vocals and guitar) met (bassist and backing vocalist) Joseph D Rowland at […]
“Been A Long Time”: Heathen after a 10-year break are back with a brand new album called Empire Of The Blind. The Bay Area thrashers have only released 3 previous albums with their first album being Breaking The Silence in 1987. They formed a couple of years before that so have managed 4 albums in […]
Introduction: Polish band Vader are back with their twelfth album of all original material album on May 1st. The album called Solitude In Madness is 11 slabs of heavy, thrashy death metal, with each song coming in around the 3-minute mark! They do not fuck about. They come in, boot you in the bollocks then […]
Should there be a Big 5 in Thrash Metal? I think so, and if I had a say, I would add Testament to this list. Although the Bay Area band started a few years later than the other Big 4, (Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth) they have been putting out albums since the ’80s and with […]
Some Background: Khemmis are a new name to me and are pretty new to their label Nuclear Blast. This 4 piece outfit are from Denver Colorado and formed back in 2012. They have 3 albums out and now they are releasing an EP called Doomed Heavy Metal which drops April 17. They are categorized as […]
White Stones is the brainchild of Opeth bassist Martin Mendez which features fellow bandmate Frederik Akesson playing most of the guitar solos here apart from one track where Per Eriksson (Katatonia and Bloodbath) fills in. The album has the title Kuaraly which translates from a native word in Uruguay (his birthplace) for “Sun”. The album […]
Check out all our Upcoming Release announcements New release from: PRIMAL FEAR – Metal Commando (July 17, 2020) Primal Fear recently finished the recording of their upcoming 13th studio album, set to be titled Metal Commando. The title of the album speaks for itself – Metal Commando contains 110% PRIMAL FEAR and is full to the […]
Some History: Sepultura are back in 2020 with a brand new album on Nuclear Blast Records. Quadra will be their 15th studio album in their over 35-year career. There is only one surviving member of the band who was with them when they recorded the first album back in 1986. That being bassist Paulo Jnr […]
Background: Marko Hietala is probably best known as bassist and the harsher voice of symphonic metal outfit Nightwish. For the first time, he has stepped out on his own with his album Pyre Of The Black Heart. The album has been available for a while now in his own language of Finnish, but he has […]
