Record Reviews

Tygers of Pan Tang’s Francesco Marras gives us guitar-happy melodic hard rock on his new solo album.

Music to get laid to: Swedish rockers Spiders are back with a new album full of great rock’n’roll.

Ukrainian modern metal band Jinjer takes a giant leap forward with the new album.

Metalcore sung in Swedish? Yeah, Knogjärn makes it work and it is catchy as hell.

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.