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This everning, the Ziggo Dome felt conquered—not by force, but by camaraderie. Sabaton didn’t just perform; they built ...
07/12/2025

This everning, the Ziggo Dome felt conquered—not by force, but by camaraderie. Sabaton didn’t just perform; they built a fortress of sound and spectacle, and invited everyone inside.

The evening started with frustration outside the Ziggo Dome. The line at the box office dragged endlessly, press tickets included, and by the time I finally made it inside The Legendary Orchestra was already in full swing. For those unfamiliar, this ensemble is a touring symphonic project built arou...

This album is a trip back to memory lane. Maybe that’s what makes this “Walsen van hoop” by Hexagraf so enjoyable. But ...
02/12/2025

This album is a trip back to memory lane. Maybe that’s what makes this “Walsen van hoop” by Hexagraf so enjoyable. But beside the nostalgia it simply put is a well composed, executed and product album. Is it original? At times but mostly the sound is reckognasible and has bonded with spirits of the past. And there’s nothing wrong with this. Especially when it’s cheer misanthropic pleasure provided like this! Void Wanderer Productions & War Productions

I’ve mentioned Asgrauw, Hellvaerder, Schavot and Duindwaler more then a few times in my reviews. They are members of the Zwotte Kring collective, which contain kindred spirits sharing the same passion and philospy about music. Two of these members, Floris Velthuis (Asgrauw, Schavot) and Daan Bloem...

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity”.A quote by Norwegian painter Edward Mu...
02/12/2025

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity”.
A quote by Norwegian painter Edward Munch, taken from the latest otherworldly progressive death metal odyssey by Binah , which should give you a fair indication of the scope this clandestine unit works with.
Osmose Productions

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity”. A quote by Norwegian painter Edward Munch, taken from the latest otherworldly progressive death metal odyssey by BINAH, which should give you a fair indication of the scope this clandestine unit works with.   OSM...

Santa Claus is coming to town early this year and brings you a Christmas gift from the boys of Aerosmith , who decided t...
29/11/2025

Santa Claus is coming to town early this year and brings you a Christmas gift from the boys of Aerosmith , who decided to work together with the future of Rock Music that comes in the form of Doncaster’s bouncy ball Dominic Harrison a.k.a. Yungblud .
”One More Time” is an EP released by Capital Records on the 21st of November and contains 4 new songs written by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry and Yungblud.

”Would you cry if I called you my angel?” I don’t think so but what brings a tear to my eye is the release of new music, especially when Yungblud and Aerosmith created a love child called ”One More Time”. Santa Claus is coming to town early this year and brings you a Christmas gift […]

Every so often a record lands on your desk that makes you ask a very simple question: “how have I never heard this band ...
26/11/2025

Every so often a record lands on your desk that makes you ask a very simple question: “how have I never heard this band before?” Phobocosm ’s fourth album, “Gateway,” was one of those moments for me. Arriving with little fanfare beyond a label one-sheet from Dark Descent Records, it turned out to be a masterclass in death-doom – an album that understands tension, weight and atmosphere so completely that the opener “Deathless” had me locked in before the first real crescendo.

Every so often a record lands on your desk that makes you ask a very simple question: “how have I never heard this band before?” Phobocosm’s fourth album, “Gateway,” was one of those moments for me. Arriving with little fanfare beyond a label one-sheet from Dark Descent Records, it turned ...

Funeral doom and black metal usually meet at the point where patience runs out. One side demands glacial pacing and suff...
25/11/2025

Funeral doom and black metal usually meet at the point where patience runs out. One side demands glacial pacing and suffocating repetition, the other thrives on immediacy and lo-fi spite. On their debut full-length “Dreaming Delusion”, Norwegian outfit Gloombound decide not to choose. The result is an experimental blackened doom record that is far more enjoyable than its rough edges suggest – and one that showcases enormous potential, even if the ex*****on doesn’t yet match the vision.

Funeral doom and black metal usually meet at the point where patience runs out. One side demands glacial pacing and suffocating repetition, the other thrives on immediacy and lo-fi spite. On their debut full-length “Dreaming Delusion”, Norwegian outfit Gloombound decide not to choose. The result...

Australian death metal has been quietly producing some of the most consistent brutality of the last decade, and Depravit...
25/11/2025

Australian death metal has been quietly producing some of the most consistent brutality of the last decade, and Depravity have been at the centre of that surge. After the excellent “Evil Upheaval” (2018) and “Grand Malevolence” (2020), the Perth unit return five years later with their third full-length, “Be***al Possession,” released through Transcending Obscurity Records.

Australian death metal has been quietly producing some of the most consistent brutality of the last decade, and Depravity have been at the centre of that surge. After the excellent “Evil Upheaval” (2018) and “Grand Malevolence” (2020), the Perth unit return five years later with their third ...

Here’s the uncomfortable truth for a grizzled, hardcore-leaning metal fan: “Abyss – The Final Chapter” is executed so we...
25/11/2025

Here’s the uncomfortable truth for a grizzled, hardcore-leaning metal fan: “Abyss – The Final Chapter” is executed so well that my genre prejudices don’t really survive contact. The songwriting is impeccable, the sequencing smart, and the emotional through-line coherent across fifteen tracks. Where so much modern metalcore feels like it’s chasing trends, annisokay sound like they fully own this hybrid space. They’ve embraced the emo and electronic elements without abandoning the fundamentals of heavy music, and they manage to do it in a way that doesn’t feel pathetic or performative, even to an older, battle-hardened listener who should – by rights – bounce straight off it.

Back in 2018, Annisokay blindsided me with “Good Stories.” I’m not the target audience for modern emo-leaning metalcore – wrong generation, wrong cultural wiring. I grew up in an era where “mental health” meant being told to get your act together, and anything that sounded like emotional...

“Echoes in Eternity”, Agnostic Front's thirteenth studio album and first in six years, doesn’t chase anything. It plants...
24/11/2025

“Echoes in Eternity”, Agnostic Front's thirteenth studio album and first in six years, doesn’t chase anything. It plants a flag. This is what classic hardcore sounds like when it remembers exactly who it is and, crucially, when it’s recorded by people who know how to make that power translate in 2025. Released 7 November 2025 via Reigning Phoenix Music, produced by Mike Dijan and clocking in at a lean 27 minutes over 15 tracks, it is as definitive a statement of “pure” hardcore as you’re likely to hear this decade.

Hardcore ages strangely. For a genre built on youth, urgency and tiny rooms that smell of sweat and cheap lager, very few bands survive long enough to become institutions. Agnostic Front didn’t just survive – they helped define the language of NYHC, and then had to watch as the genre they helped...

The mighty ENTHRONED has risen from its slumber to deliver us a new epos. This (cult) black metal act hasn’t had a rele...
24/11/2025

The mighty ENTHRONED has risen from its slumber to deliver us a new epos. This (cult) black metal act hasn’t had a release since ‘Cold Black Suns’ (2019). In new formation Nornagest (vocals) is back! Together with his comrade T. Chaos (guitar and bass) and on drums old matey Menthor these Belgium occult lovers are ready to spread their gospel.

The mighty Enthroned has risen from its slumber to deliver us a new epos. This (cult) black metal act hasn’t had a release since ‘Cold Black Suns’ (2019). In new formation Nornagest (vocals) is back! Together with his comrade T. Chaos (guitar and bass) and on drums old matey Menthor these Belg...

What makes “London Sessions” by The Old Dead Tree so special, though, isn’t just the pedigree or the sonics. It’s the a...
24/11/2025

What makes “London Sessions” by The Old Dead Tree so special, though, isn’t just the pedigree or the sonics. It’s the attitude. You can hear a band who have survived loss, burnout, a long separation and a full career’s worth of near-misses, now standing in one of the most storied rooms in recorded music and playing like they belong there – but also like they know exactly how precious that moment is. There’s no sense of rushing to prove themselves, no clutter, no ego. Just four songs, each doing a specific job, each executed with a level of craft and emotional intelligence that’s rare in any genre. 10/10

There are comebacks, and then there are resurrections. The Old Dead Tree have spent more than twenty years at the darker, more introspective edge of progressive metal, carrying the weight of personal tragedy and an unusually human sense of melancholy through albums like “The Nameless Disease”, ....

We were fortunate to attend this concert (thank you Doornroosje !). And people: if you have the chance to attend a Swans...
18/11/2025

We were fortunate to attend this concert (thank you Doornroosje !). And people: if you have the chance to attend a Swans show, go for it! It is worth your time (and money). As said before I think the will have a last curtain call very soon. It would be a pity to miss out on something extraordinary. Thoroughly enjoyed ourselves with this one!

I think the website of Doornroosje describes it perfectly. How to describe Swans? Already active for more than four decades they managed incorporate different styles. From noise to acoustic and back to industrial, even slightly gothic regions, Swans is always evolving yet indistinguishable Swans. An...

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