Category: Metal

Review by Glen Parkes – Jace Media Music There are bands that write songs, and then there are bands that build worlds. For two decades now, Long Distance Calling has comfortably sat in the latter category, crafting vast, instrumental soundscapes that speak louder than most lyric sheets ever could. With The Phantom [more…]

Death Metal Metal Blade Records Release Date – April 10th, 2026 Review By Snudge Smith Swedish death metal legend Vomitory were formed in 1989 and, up to their split in 2013, released some of the genre’s most crushingly brutal albums, such as ‘Revelation Nausea’, ‘Primal Massacre’, ‘Blood Rapture’ and ‘Terrorise, Brutalise, Sodomise’. [more…]

Corrosion Of Conformity – ‘Good God/Baad Man’ Heavy Rock Nuclear Blast Release Date – April 3rd 2026 I honestly don’t know of another band that has gone through so many changes, not just in personnel but in musical style. Corrosion Of Conformity started as a hardcore punk band back in 1982. They [more…]

Thrash Metal Mighty Music Release Date – May 15th, 2026 Review By Smudge Smith It’s a welcome return to Danish thrashers Artillery. Only four tracks, but it’s a perfect chance for new singer Martin Steene and guitarist Rene Loua to show what they’ve got. They open with an eastern-flavoured intro on the [more…]

Review By Darren McIntyre Spread Eagle are a hard rock / glam metal band from New York City, New York who originally formed in 1989, whilst rehearsing for their first gig they were signed to MCA Universal Records and the rest as they say is history. The boys were gigging and playing [more…]

Metal Noise/BMG Release Date – May 1st 2026 Review By Smudge Smith Blimey it’s been six years since Venom released ‘Storm The Gates’ and apparently this new slab of evil blackhearted metal n roll has been worked on prodigiously since then. Cronos has mentioned that they have really pushed the boundaries and [more…]

Symphonic Metal Rockshots Records Release Date – April 17th 2026 Review Smudge Smith Anthea (give us a twirl! Sorry had to be done for those of a certain age) are from Los Angeles and have been around since 2015. Founded by singer/keyboard player Diego Valadez as a side project along with some [more…]

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…]