In 2009 things started happening for American band Scarred when additional members were brought on board and the recording of this EP took place. Haunting Memories came out two years ago but the band is getting ready to release a full length album soon so it seems it’d be a good time to check out their previous work. I liked …

Vicious Rumors are something akin to the secret weapon of American heavy metal. They’ve been around for ages and even rubbed shoulders with the Bay Area thrash scene back in the day. Too bad the quintet never outgrew their underground notoriety and carved a niche for themselves on an international level…

There was a lot of thrash metal in 2008, including Onslaught, who just emerged from a very long hiatus. Back then the ‘new’ thrash bands, whether debuting or comebacking, were welcome relief from the usual trendy shit…

Since the early days of folk and pagan metal Skyforger have been hammering out a unique sound for themselves by combining traditional Baltic song with early Scandinavian black metal and more recently with 80’s heavy metal.
They’ve experienced considerable success with previous albums Thunderforge (folk/pagan metal) and Sword Song (acoustic Latvian folk) both released in 2003 since which the band …

Outside the Shade is the newest EP released by the French band Diary of Destruction and is available now for all you fans of female-fronted melodic metal. After listening to this for the past few weeks (err, months) I’ve come to appreciate a few things about them. The first, is the voice of enchanting frontwoman Audrey Ebrotié. There is a …