Hadal Maw – Rob Brens Hadal Maw is an Australian progressive death metal band who are moving from strength to strength. Following up two solid albums in Senium (2014) and Olm (2017), Hadal Maw is about to...

Tarja Turunen has had a long career in symphonic metal. From being Nightwish‘s genre-defining opera singer that inspired a generation of symphonic metal bands fronted by mezzo-sopranos to a successful solo career that has been capped off...

Symphonic metal queen Tarja Turunen returns with Act II, her third live album following up 2012’s Act I. With such an experienced artist it’s no surprise that things are well produced, and Act II delivers on all...

The brainchild of former Sabaton contributor Ken Kängström, Follow the Cipher present their self-titled debut album after nearly four years in the works. In an attempt to differentiate themselves from the hordes of symphonic power metal bands,...

The godfathers of Christian metal, Stryper, are back again with twelfth album God Damn Evil. While the yellow-and-black striped bumblebee outfits (a reference to the Bible passage Isaiah 53:5 where their name is taken from) have been...

Hailing from Ecuador, Destroyer Attack have returned with their second album Solve Et Coagula, following up 2014’s Ejecución en nombre de su dios. With the new album comes something of a new style, and Destroyer Attack has...

Engulf‘s Gold and Rust is the second EP in a series of three, following on from last year’s Subsumed Atrocities, all the work of one Hal Microutsicos. As with the previous EP, Gold and Rust is another promising...

At the Gates find themselves in an interesting position in the current metal climate. From their start in cult-classic Swedish death metal band Grotesque all the way to their genre-defining Slaughter of the Soul in 1995, they were a...