Newsflash: Hibria lights the XX Birthday Cake!

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20 years have passed, believe it or not. The speedy Heavy Metal and Power Metallers Hibria just released their very own birthday present. 

Appropriately called XX, their new album covers three new tracks and four live performance samples from all across their past offerings. 

Hibria got this Brazilian machine going by 1996, starting off with a demo in ’97, and never stopped since. Now, after a score of singles, splits, live albums, re-issues, and five full-length albums with new material, it is now time to fire up the birthday cake with this newest EP-ish concoction.

Talking about the new material. [...] Click to raid more!

Newsflash: Hallucinating with Creinium!

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The hell did I just listen to?

If you would shoot bands like Moonspell up with a super-vitamin and then add five gallons of power drinks, this would about get you an idea of the relentless energy and multi-flavored style of the Finnish band Creinium. And all of that bundled-up power is contained in their newest offering Hallucinosis

Creinium navigate at the very dark edge of the metal abyss. And literally throw a very mixed bag of tracks at the audience. This is definitely metal, but it’s presented in a rag-tag selection of styles, all torn asunder.

You’ll find metal bits and pieces going Progressive, Symphonic, Death, and surely Dark [...] Click to raid more!

Newsflash: Banned From Hell predicts humanity’s downfall!

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You know, sometimes a tune just sticks like mud on a wall. And this just so happened with the Italian band Banned From Hell and their second album Fall of Humanity. The description says Horror Metal. And this, too, got my attention.

And indeed, there is this hint of master Dracula sitting in the great hall playing on his organ from hell. Whilst he impatiently waits for his next victim to arrive.

But what have we got ourselves?

In fact, the complexity and structure Banned From Hell use kinda resemble stuff Carach Angren often embarks on. No perfect fit, I agree, but [...] Click to raid more!

Newsflash – Dismal Grandeur of Vanad Varjud!

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Talk about a style that will stick to you like water at 40°C below zero. A tune made for the bleaker moments in your metal life. Or for times, when you are not afraid. Best consumed in deep winter, when the wolves howl about the icy tundra of Estonia. 

Vanad Varjud‘s newest concoction Dismal Grandeur In Nocturnal Aura is, whilst not very long, still a very sturdy stew of all things wild and darkly metal.

The band’s very strange and icy cold mix of Doom Black Metal combined with a large offering of depressive elements will stick that gloomy atmosphere onto your mortally afraid soul. If you might want [...] Click to raid more!