Category: Metal

ALBUM – METALMORPHOSIS REVIEWER – GRAEME WRIGHT It’s been thirteen long years since Masterplan released their last studio album ‘Novum Initum’, to the extent that some of us were wondering if we would ever hear anything new from this band again. Well, imagine my surprise when the rumblings began of a new [more…]

Folk Metal Reaper Entertainment 22nd,Release Date – May 22nd 2026 Well, here’s a thing. The Elvenking has obviously been having a spring clean. They’ve looked behind the wardrobe and the back of the sofa and found a bunch of songs that were released digitally and never made it onto a physical record. [more…]

Restless Spirit are from Long Island, New York and were formed by childhood friend’s singer/guitarist Paul Aloisio and bassist Marc Morello. They take their influences straight from Birmingham but add a bit of New York attitude into the mix. They started as Restless Spirit in 2018 and have released four EPS’s and [more…]

Power Metal Fighter Records Release Date – April 14th 2026 By Smudge Smith Preludio Ancestral are a new name to me even though they’ve been around for twenty years. The project was founded by main man/brain guitarist Leonardo Gatti who also provides bass, keyboards and orchestrations. He did have some help from [more…]

Metal Century Media Release Date – March 13th, 2026 Review By Smudge Smith Lamb Of God – twenty-five years in existence, Grammy nominations, many highs and lows as any band has, and now this – probably their best work to date. Surprisingly it’s only their tenth album, but there’s a real feeling [more…]

Metal Steamhammer Released – March 6th 2026 Review By Smudge Smith Well, crikey. Prong have been around since 1986, and this is only their second live album. Their first was ‘100% Live’ released in 2002 which is when Tommy Victor decided to resurrect the Prong name after throwing his lot in With [more…]

Thrash Metal High Roller Records 20th,Released – February 20th 2026 Review By Smudge Smith Lead Injector are a blackened thrash trio from Dresden and were formed in 2022, and they are still unfeasibly young. They knocked out a demo in 2024, and on the strength of that, they were given a deal. [more…]

Heavy Rock/Metal High Roller Records Release Date – March 20th, 2026 Review By Smudge Smith 2024: Raging out of Portland, Oregon, comes Stainless, who officially started in 2022, with the members having been in bands throughout the Northwest US metal underground. They released an EP in 2024 and this is their first [more…]

Review By Darren McIntyre Confess are a sleaze/metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, who originally formed in 2008, and although they have gone through some changes in personnel, they have kept the music their focus. The boys brought us Lights Out in 2011, Jail in 2014 and Burn Em All in 2020, and [more…]

Speed Metal High Roller Records 20th,Release Date – March 20th 2026 Review By Smudge Smith I’m going to show my age. Who remembers the Belgian HM band Acid? They were always in Kerrang! In the early 80s, they pushed out 3 albums between 1982 and 1985, and then they broke up. They [more…]