Record Reviews

Stockholm’s Wrong Way Back shows us that there is still hope for catchy Swedish punk rock.

A less gritty and more mature The Hellacopters soldiers on while Dregen recovers.

Swedish melodic death metal band The Halo Effect curses the silence on its second album.

A raised middle finger from Sweden’s best thrash metal band.

Israeli extreme metal band Arallu returns with a new version of the track “Battleground”.

While you can find descriptions of this band as blackened dissonant death or even avant-garde something-or-other, the truth is that no matter which direction a humble extreme metal wordsmith may choose to wank-off in, fans of death metal will dig this hard. When it comes to narrative, let Sydney-siders Golgothan Remains do the storytelling.

Canadian deathcore group A Scar for the Wicked’s album “Acolythus” is tight, well-written and consistent.

Rvkkvs serves up Kiwi death grind on the band’s debut album. This is extreme metal, and the tracks are short, but it’s anything but one-dimensional. It’s glorious stuff.

Terrifically dark Finnish progressive post-metal on new EP by Besra.

Erik Lazaroff & Hökarna are back with an excellent second album. It’s rock sung in Swedish. It’s more denim than leather.

A sensational debut album by Elliott Crafoord’s melodic black metal project Unhallowing.

Former Torch singer Dan Dark releases debut solo album.

Swedish power metal band HammerFall is back with its 13th studio album. If catchy and bombastic power metal is your thing, HammerFall’s new album will not disappoint.