Sanktuary – Winter’s Doom (2016) – Review

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It must be the Northern Lights. Or the cold and remote Yukon countryside. THIS is good old Thrash and Heavy Metal of the speedy kind spilling over the pond into Europe in all its putrid splendor. Just have a look at the pretty gruesome album art.

The Canadian band Sanktuary unleash their newest, self-released album Winter’s Doom at us in style. A style reflecting the harsh environment from whence they come.

Now, this band is not to be confused with the Seattle-based thrash metallers Sanctuary, the ones who just decided to wake up and reunite after a long, a very long sabbatical.

Sanktuary rock us

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Newsflash: Omega Diatribe, killer EP released in 2015!

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You know, I like swagger in a band. And if they can produce good metal AND they have a good cover story to boot, like the Hungarian Groove Metal outfit Omega Diatribe, then it is almost sold. Of course, the quality of their tune will take precedence – after all the music counts, not the posture. 

Their story?

A contract has been passed between humans and some psycho aliens about the limited use of Earth’s resources. This is called Omega Diatribe. Once time’s up only open-minded people can survive this transition.

Good story – Star Trek anyone?

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Newsflash: Absolving The Treacherous, newest from Mythrias!

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The US-based Thrash / Death Metal band Mythrias just released their newest EP Absolving The Treacherous in September of 2015. Their powerful Thrash Metal meets crusty Death Metal is really a captivating piece of work. Sounding like a younger and evil sibling of Arch Enemy married to Blynd, yet with double the energy, they produce pretty hardcore material since their inception in 2013.

Mythrias came to some very limited fame opening up for well-known bands in the genre like Insomnium, Omnium Gatherum, Septicflesh, or Moonspell – among others.

Not bad for a startup.

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Newsflash: ENFEEBLE – Newest Shocker Released!

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Who said there is only beer and pretzels in good, old Germany? Complete with lederhos’n and holzhack’n? Well, wake up and smell the … metal.

German melodic thrash and metalcore metal warriors ENFEEBLE released their newest album Momentum of Tranquility in October 2015.

And there is nothing tranquil about the album, I can assure you.

First emerging as The Thrashcans, then transforming into ENFEEBLE back in the mid-’00s, this newest concoction is their 2nd full-length album so far (or the third, depending on the source and how you look at it).

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