Overt Enemy – Insurrection (2025) – Review

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There’s some headscratching going on over at the Review Desk. The powers that be of the metal interweb threw American thrashers Overt Enemy into our lap, wordily touting its wares in often flowery language. An act from Mission, Texas,1 who had – and I quote “…carved a name for itself in the global metal scene…” happily riding into the sunset on all that newfound global fame. Or something.

And that sounds great, except that their 2025 tour happens all around the Lone Star State. And the only live location abroad that we could find was the UK. Back in

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Impureza – Alcázares (2025) – Review

Alright, this crew is confused. The review pipe violently ejected a Death Metal band called Impurity. These guys spew their wares in Castellan, but are based in the beautiful French city of Orléans. To add insult to injury, the band frequently indulges in flamenco-style excursions with those typical fast-moving rhythms. And they do it in the traditional fashion or in high-end Extreme Metal mode. Now, if that doesn’t pique your interest, I wonder what will.

So, here’s to Impureza, the band boasting one of the funkiest ideas in metal that this crew has found to date. Grab yer hardhats!… [...] Click to raid more!

Celestial Wizard – Regenesis (2025) – Review

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Celestial Wizard - Regenesis - Album Cover

Celestial Wizard‘s 2022 piece, Winds of the Cosmos, never quite convinced us. The RMR crew let ‘er roar out of our mighty music machine. But nada, nothing would stick, or at least not enough to unstick it from the sump of the review pipe.

But here, the band is back with Regenesis, their newest concoction. And already the pulp fiction style, kinda oldish album cover got the better of us. Who can resist some sort of Western-style Grim Reaper on a pale horse in a saguaro-infested1 fantastical Arizona desert setting? Well, yours truly couldn’t. Go find … [...] Click to raid more!

Hazzerd – The 3rd Dimension (2025) – Review

Hazzerd - The 3rd Dimension - Album Cover

Whenever I ask one of my non-metalhead friends to fire up some metal, they hit one of Metallica‘s tracks. Damn. But who are we kidding? Ever since the Grammies forgot to do research and just handed prizes to the loudest American band with the worst and yellowest album covers, Thrash Metal got undue credit and false fame. Battle medals these folks didn’t quite deserve in the first place. But whatever the merit may be, this kind of promotion undoubtedly assisted the furious success of this genre over the decades.

So, here’s Hazzerd. A relatively young band having seen … [...] Click to raid more!