Review by Jeger Arckanum – Motestandarin (EP) Record Label: Darkness Shall Rise Productions Year: 2026 Rating: 8/10 It goes without saying that the Swedes are the ones who put real Occult-driven Black Metal on the map: Ofermod, Arckanum, Dissection, Watain. And it also goes without saying that to this day, the Sverige scene consists of … Seguir leyendo “Review: Arckanum – Motestandarin (EP)”

Review by Rick Eaglestone Flykt – Sinister Strain Record Label: Hammerheart Records Year: 2026 Rating: 7/10 Seven years is a long time to hold your tongue. Since Charnel Heart announced Flykt to the Swedish Black Metal scene in 2019, the Stockholm duo of Andreas (ex-Valkyrja, vocals) and Joel (ex-Rev 16:8, guitars) have said almost nothing: no … Seguir leyendo “Review: Flykt – Sinister Strain”

Review by Transmontanus Kalmansurma – Sysimaa (EP) Record Label: Independent Year: 2026 Rating: 7/10 Finland has long possessed a unique relationship with darkness, and Kalmansurma appear intent on continuing that tradition through a sound that occupies the bleak territory between Black Metal and Doom. Hailing from Kärkölä, the duo have quickly established an identity rooted … Seguir leyendo “Review: Kalmansurma – Sysimaa (EP)”

Thrash has enjoyed a solid year thus far…Whether your poison has included the head-spinning technical fireworks of Cryptic Shift, the sprightly horns-up gallop of Kreator’s inspired latest, lean, mean death-thrash of Nuclear Tomb, hard-hitting punch of Furi Helium, or rabidly nasty old school battering of Desolus, the legendary genre where many a metalhead cut their … Seguir leyendo “Imperium – Exodus Unknown Review”

Sometimes a new band starts up and chooses a godawful name—like Illwind. I’m not just referring to associations with flatulence either—though that certainly doesn’t help. It’s just a difficult name to research, especially for a band with such a small web presence. Google will direct you to the Radiohead song, “Ill Wind,” or a 1960s … Seguir leyendo “Illwind – The Unfolding at the End of Light Review”

Psycroptic have been a cornerstone in the tech death scene since the turn of the century. Their 2003 classic, The Scepter of the Ancients, is a legendary record that helped define the genre.1 Since then, these Tasmanian devils have churned out seven albums of inventive tech death, setting a standard that few have matched and … Seguir leyendo “Psycroptic – The Pulse of Annihilation Review”

An age-old challenge for critical houses like ours is that, while they simultaneously represent a cohesive vision, each editor should have their own unique voice. As time passes, writers come to AMG and go like so much beef through a meat grinder. All this faffing about to say, we have vastly different opinions, and as … Seguir leyendo “Fuming Mouth – The Ringing Bell Review”

Blood of the Nations är Accepts tolfte studioalbum och en av hårdrockens mest osannolika framgångssagor. När skivan släpptes sommaren 2010 hade bandet inte gett ut ett nytt studioalbum på fjorton år och få trodde att de fortfarande hade något att bevisa. Situationen blev inte mindre osäker av att återkomsten skedde utan Udo Dirkschneider, vars karakteristiska röst … Seguir leyendo “KRÖNIKA: Historien bakom Accepts kritikerrosade comebackalbum Blood of the Nations”

Bonafide går in i ett nytt kapitel. I ett inlägg på sociala medier meddelar det svenska hårdrocksbandet att trummisen Niklas Matsson lämnar bandet efter många år för att fullt ut fokusera på sitt engagemang i Mustasch. Samtidigt presenterar Bonafide sin lösning – Anders Rosell tar plats bakom trummorna. Rosell har varit bandets gitarrist sedan 2014, … Seguir leyendo “Bonafide fortsätter som trio – presenterar turnédatum och albumplaner”