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Album Reviews 2020

Album Review: Katabasis by Thyrant (Indie Recordings)

24/07/202023/07/2020 Brendan Fisher Album of the Year, Black Metal, blackened death, Death metal, Doom, emotional music, epics, Indie, Indie Recordings, Katabasis, Katabasis review, mixed, New Metal, New Music, Ocram, Spain, Spanish metal, Thyrant, Thyrant band, Thyrant Review, What We Left Behind

Spanish death/black metallers, Thyrant, have released their sophomore album titled Katabasis on the 17th of July via Indie Recordings.

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Album Reviews 2020

Album Review – Metal Commando by Primal Fear (Nuclear Blast Records)

16/07/202015/07/2020 Brendan Fisher Album of the Year, Album Review - Metal Commando, Alex Beyrodt, Apocalypse, Dragonforce, Gamma Ray, Judas Priest, Just Priest, Magnus Karlsson, Mat Sinner, Michael Ehré, New Metal, New Music, Nuclear Blast Records, NWOTHM, Power Metal, Primal Fear, primal fear band, Ralf Scheepers, Rob Halford, Sinner, Tom Naumann, Traditional Metal

German heavy metal juggernauts, Primal Fear, are back with a brand new album called Metal Commando, due for release on the 24th of July via Nuclear Blast.

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Album Reviews 2020

Album Review: Solitude in Madness by Vader (Nuclear Blast)

28/04/202027/04/2020 Brendan Fisher Album of the Year, Death metal, James Stewart, Marek Pająk, New Metal, New Music, Nuclear Blast, Nuclear Blast Records, Piotr Wiwczarek, Poland, Polish band Vader, Polish death metal, Solitude in Madness, The Empire, The Ultimate Incantation, Thy Messenger, Tomasz Halicki, Vader, Vader album, Vader band, Vader review

Polish death metallers, Vader, will release their new album, Solitude in Madness on the 1st of May via Nuclear Blast.

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Album Reviews 2019

Album Review – Death Atlas by Cattle Decapitation (Metal Blade Records)

30/11/201930/11/2019 Brendan Fisher Album of the Year, Belisario Dimuzio, best metal albums of 2019, Bloodstock, Bloodstock Festival, BOA 2020, Cattle Decap, Cattle Decapitation, Cattle Decapitation review, Dave McGraw, Death Atlas, death atlas review, extreme metal, Josh Elmore, Metal Blade Records, New Metal, New Music, Olivier Pinard, The Anthropocene Extinction, Travis Ryan

Cattle Decapitation have released their brand new album, and one of my most eagerly anticipated albums of the year. This is Death Atlas.

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Album Reviews 2019

Album Review – Pantheon MMXIX by Ultar (ToT Records)

10/04/201910/04/2019 Brendan Fisher Album of the Year, Atmospheric Metal, black gaze, Black Metal, Deafknife, Death metal, denis, Doom, Father Dagon, Gleb Sysoev, Kadath, Krasnoyarsk, Lovecraftian, Maxim, New Metal, New Music, Pantheon MMXIX, Pavel, Post Black Metal, Russian, Siberia, Sludge, ToT Records, Ultar, Vlad

Russian black metallers, Ultar serve up their second full length studio album with Pantheon MMXIX, an atmospheric and emotive record, released on the 29th of March via ToT Records.

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Album Reviews 2019

Album Review – Wolf to Man by Nightrage (Despotz Records)

31/03/201930/03/2019 Brendan Fisher Album of the Year, consistent, Despotz Records, Dino George Stamoglou, Fransisco Escalona, GBHBL, Gemini, Greek, Groove, harmony, Heavy, Insidious, Lytrosis, Magnus Soderman, Marios Iliopoulos, melodeath, Melodic, Melodic Death Metal, New Metal, New Music, Nightrage, Ronnie Nyman, Swedish, Sweet Vengeance, The Puritan, The Venomous, Wearing a Martyr's Crown, Wolf to Man

One of melodic death metals most persistent and consistent bands, Nightrage, release their new album, Wolf to Man, on the 29/03/2019 via Despotz Records.

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Album Reviews 2019

Album Review – Prokopton by Aephanemer (Primeval Records)

28/03/201928/03/2019 Brendan Fisher Aephanemer, Album of the Year, amazing, best album, Dani Filth, Folk, Folk Melody, France, French, Gojira, Lucie Woaye Hune, Marion Bascoul, Martin Hamiche, melodic death, Memento Mori, Mickäel Bonnevialle, New Metal, New Music, One-Man Project, Orchestra, Primeval Records, Prokopton, sophomore album, symphonic metallers, symphony, The Last of the Mohicans, Wacken Open Air

The French melodic death/symphonic metallers return with their sophomore album, Prokopton, which is out now via Primeval Records.

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Album Reviews 2019

Album Review – The Heretics by Rotting Christ (Season of Mist)

15/02/201915/02/2019 Brendan Fisher Album of the Year, Atmosphere, best metal album, Black Metal, Bloodstock, brilliant album, Death metal, Fire, George Emmanuel, god, Greece, Greek, Hallowed be Thy Name, headliner, Heaven, hell, Messiah, New Metal, New Music, Rotting Christ, Sakis Tolis, Season of Mist, The Heretics, Themmis Tolis, Vagelis Karzis

Rotting Christ have released their 13th studio album in The Heretics. The Heretics comes out via Season of Mist and is a dark and powerful slab of black metal.

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