Reviews written by: Daan Winkelhorst

Reviews

The Curse Of Millhaven - Thresholds

The Curse Of Millhaven was founded in 2012, the band members (Jasper, Jeroen, Kurt, Bram and Bart) al live in their hometown Ypres a well know place in Belgium. After a few years of perfecting their sound and writing songs the band was ready to go to the studio and record their first album "Vestibule Of Hell" in 2014, this album was wel received an...

28/01/2020

Blood Eagle - To Ride In Blood & Bathe In Greed II

Some say that they are a Danish supergroup and others say that they're just brought together to make music and drink beers, but we all can agree that these music veterans just make a lot of good old death metal. Formed in 2010 after a jam session whom involved the founding members Mircea (guitars) and Franz (guitars) Blood Eagle has rissen to be a...

03/12/2019

Dreamarcher - The Bond

Formed in 2015 by Kim Christer Hylland and Ruben Aksnes with the vison to embrace their idea's of songwriting Dreamarcher was founded. With a blackened progressive metal sound heavily inspired by their hometown Odda (Norway) the band tries to combine beautiful and ambient with darkness and concrete. After a while Odd Erlend Mikkelsen and Eirik Kråk...

05/11/2019

Ascend The Hollow - Echoes Of Existence

Ascend The Hollow is a metalband from Europe, they describe themself as a 'female- fronted progressive cyber-tech metal band'. With their first album released in 2019 the band doesn't have a long history with their current name but they are formely know as Xerosun. The band members are also very experienced having worked with or still working with...

16/09/2019

Selefice - I Met A God

Formed in 1990 in Athens, Selefice is an extreme metalband and was founded in the same period as bands like Acid Death, Rotting Christ and Septicflesh. The band even shared the stage with some of these bands back in the 90's. When they released their first demo "Selefice" in 1991 it sold 1000 copy's worldwide. This is not bad at all when you rememb...

03/06/2019

Seax - Fallout Rituals

Grab your beer and start partying because it's time for Seax, these four speed metal maniacs from Massachusetts give (speed) metal a whole other meaning. Formed in 2009 by guitarist Hell with the intention to make heavy metal but as time pressed on and other members joint the band the music style became more and more speed metal. With a stable line...

27/05/2019

Haeredium - Ascension

Haeredium is a modern folk metal band from Eastern France, formed in 2009 with the vision to make folk metal more modern with the focus on energy and to fuse metal with other styles like jazz. With themes about nature, philosophy and storytelling and a lot of happy tunes the band is very nice to listen to and every song doesn’t sound similar. In 20...

16/04/2019

Left Hand Solution - Through The Mourning Woods

You got to admit that Scandanavia has a lot of metalbands, especially extreme metalbands and a lot of black metal, but in al the mayhem and the carnage a more gothic doom band formed in Sweden not extreme but without no doubt they became pioneers in also a new style of metal I am talking about Left Hand Solution. Founded in 1991 in Sundsvall Swe...

05/04/2019

Embers Of Oblivion - Widdershins Path

Embers Of Oblivion is a dutch melodic death metal band with members from all over the country. The band was formed by Lars and Marco in 2014 and after some changes in line up Maarten, Haat and Nomiis joined after their first release. The band describes themselves as "melodic death metal with a touch of Gothenburg sound". The different styles of the...

17/03/2019

Shuulak - Albedo

A band who refuses to follow trends and has songs about humans obsession with things who would only destroy him like alchemy and the occult, you would think that it's a black metal band but it's no other band than the Dutch band Shuulak. With solid lyrics and powerful music Shuulak feels like a combination of heavy metal and horror metal. Shuula...

18/02/2019

Fearrage - Songs From The Sorrow

Formed in 2014 in Soini Finland the 4 headed band (Juha, Severi, Lassi and Markus) are on their way to become big names in the Finnish metal scene with their old style trash metal combined with new style groove metal and other modern influents. If you already guessed it or read the tittle you know that I'm writing about Fearrage. It's funny to hear...

29/01/2019

Haiduk - Exomancer

It started as a solo death metal project and it still is one, ofcourse I'm talking about Haiduk, founded in 2009 by guitarist Luka Milojica as a death/black metal project. Releasing his first demo "Plagueswept" in 2010 it kickt off in the Canadian metal scene in Calgary. After 2 years of silence Haiduk's first album <a href="https://brutalism.co...

07/01/2019