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Review:Under Ruins – “Age Of The Void”
Release date: 2nd May 2025 Where can we find a band that plays traditional heavy metal with symphonic elements, without relying on canned sound or overused synthesisers? We searched in the most unlikely places… until we found Under Ruins! This German band, formed in 2023, surprises with a hard-hitting debut — a quintessence of epic…
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Review: Girder -“Girder”
Release date: 28th March 2025 Girder, a band formed in 2023, half Brazilian and half English, kicks off their album like a punch to the face: guitars on the edge of saturation, a furious vocalist, and a band that isn’t afraid to mix punk, thrash, heavy, and even rockabilly. From the very first track, it’s…
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Review: Iron Throne, “Adventure Two”
Release date: Out now! Iron Throne describe themselves as “Dungeon crawling heavy metal from a wood-paneled basement in Indiana,” and as the reader might guess, besides guitars, bass and drums, these guys also roll the dice like in the best-selling, most famous game of all time. Did they roll a 20 and land a critical…
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Review: Palantyr, “The Ascent & The Hunger”
Release date: 2th May 2025 Palantyr, a new French band from Thionville, which was recently known as “Destrukt”, presents a new mini-LP consisting of six songs. Where had we heard the name Palantyr before? It sounds Greek, but no—that “Tyr” suffix takes us back to Odin’s Tyr, until suddenly—bam! Oh, right! A Palantír is a…
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Review: Owlbear, “Feather & Claws”
Release date: Out now! Formed in 2020, during the global plague, Owlbear debuted in 2023 with Chaos to the Realm and played their first live show in 2024 at Chicago’s Legions of Metal. Feather & Claws follows the path set by their debut: traditional heavy metal deeply rooted in medieval fantasy, much like bands such…