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Video: Final Coil deliberate Chemtrails! Wait, what?

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Whoa, folks! Rendition in Dystopia right here in a video. Pain and suffering in dirty cellars, complete with waterboarding. That’s what Final Coil’s latest clip Chemtrails depicts. The band landed one hardened metal blow that I didn’t quite expect from an outfit with an out-of-the-box yet refined style of Alternative and Progressive Rock and Metal.

Somnambulant II, the ghostly rendering of olde songs, placed Final Coil firmly on our radar. And now they’re gearing up to release their new record The World We Inherited in early ’24. So, here they are with a clip that didn’t quite click … [...] Click to raid more!

Do Vokonis Exist Within Light? Perhaps.

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Vokonis have a knack. And that is to produce (or to choose) irresistible artwork. Their 2021 piece Odyssey already won the review desk over with its striking cover. Exist Within Light – the Swede’s latest blurb is no different. Visual stimulation for metal reviews? Perhaps.

Thus, their newest EP landed in our review pipe with a selection of three tracks that should – and I paraphrase – let the band further explore the depth and breadth of their offering. All of that is in view of an upcoming album planned for next year or so.

And indeed, Vokonis added Hedvig … [...] Click to raid more!

20 Watt Tombstone meet The Chosen Few!

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Oh by the mighty Gawds of Fuzz, a huge seething hot lump of rock just rolled onto our doorstep. Something that they used to make in the hot South. But instead, the piece reaches us from America’s Dairyland.1 Rock with a Southern flavor straight from the heartland that this ‘zine is in dire need of. So, break out that bottle of Kentucky Bourbon and let ‘er rip.

Someone called 20 Watts Tombstone‘s newest blurb The Chosen Few Gritty Fuzz Rock and I would quite agree. ’70s style rock that could have sat straight on top of any ZZ … [...] Click to raid more!

Newsflash: Where The Silence Reigns, by As The Sun Falls!

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I just watched Omnium Gatherum’s latest video and was – no surprise there – struck all over again with the closeness to the sleepless ones. And indeed, Insomnium and their somewhat stereotypical brand of melodeath often stands for the law by which all shalt be measured.

Good that we have new folks on the block who will hopefully challenge that (alleged) supremacy. Anima Hereticae just sent a serious warning that things may be about to change. And now we just met up with As the Sun Falls. And this band sports a pretty sturdy brand of Melodic Death Metal. … [...] Click to raid more!