SHRAPNEL - Palace For The Insane

SHRAPNEL - Palace For The Insane

Candlelight Records

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Some sick thrash work that clocks in a little under an hour in length. And well worth it! This band definitely shows their influences to some old school acts such as Destruction (Germany), Exodus (Bay Area) and some heavy metal such as the old school Helloween. I enjoyed this one from start to finish! It was a well worth shout out from the band to write this so I thought I'd do some justice here and keep the thrash faith alive! This band has a long life left in them and the riffs are fresh on this one, that is, catchy too! Within the UK acts, not a whole heck of a lot of bands within this genre that I know coming from there.

ECHOSOUL released debut album

American Progressive Heavy/Power Metal band ECHOSOUL released their debut album «The End of Darkness». The album was recorded, mixed and mastered at "Red Ghost Studios" by Noah Hirschy and Artem Lefimov. Album artwork by Van Williams. The album involves such musicians like Tim “Ripper” Owens, Rob Lundgren, Garrett Peters and many more.

ECHOSOUL was formed in 2019 at Indiana, USA made of a collaboration of known and newer artists founded by guitarist and songwriter Guy Hinton.

YESTERDAY I LIVED released debut album

Russian Atmospheric Doom/Post-Metal band YESTERDAY I LIVED released their debut self-titled album. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered in "Silent Wood Studio" by Wade Farewell.

YESTERDAY I LIVED was formed in 2019 at Moscow, Russia as a one-man project by Wade Farewell. The concept of the project lies in personal experience with death and some reflections on occultism, religion and existence in a shell of heavy sound.

LADY BEAST - The Vulture's Amulet

LADY BEAST - The Vulture's Amulet

Reaper Metal Productions

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This wasn't well received by me at the first few listens to except for till I switched to a digitally downloaded copy I put on my Spotify. This LP is about 40 minutes in length and every song (I think) is good! The music and the vocals were the highlights, absolutely. It's a really enjoyable heavy metal album. Their vocalist sings like a power metal vocalist sings, but it's a female making the effort. She does a good job here and this band is actually a 5-piece. I have not heard their previous album, but I'm sure it's pretty good as well. But let's talk a little bit about the album itself here now.

ALPHASTATE – The Grind

ALPHASTATE – The Grind

Sliptrick Records

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Οι ALPHASTATE έχουν έδρα τους την Αθήνα και ξεκίνησαν την καριέρα τους το 2013. Σε σύντομο χρονικό διάστημα, μόλις 2 ετών μετά την δημιουργία τους, κυκλοφόρησαν το ντεμπούτο τους ως ανεξάρτητη κυκλοφορία με τον τίτλο «Out of the Black». Το επόμενο βήμα τους στην δισκογραφία είναι η παρούσα δουλειά τους που κυκλοφόρησε τον Απρίλιο του 2018 μέσω της Sliptrick Records.

TESTAMENT - Titans of Creation

TESTAMENT - Titans of Creation

Nuclear Blast

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This one is solid, but it's re-visiting (again) the 21st Century Testament. It's to me better than 'Brotherhood of the Snake', but only in some respects. The riffs are fresh and probably most of the music was written by Eric Peterson. The leads by Alex Skolnick were good, just nothing like is "just starting out" days. I think he was better on earlier Testament albums. He's gotta be that "aging metal guy" which he doesn't like to refer to himself as. Chuck is Chuck on vocals, nothing that much different than before. I've honestly never liked his voice, it's just something that I have to accept. The music is good and so is the production.

EDGE OF CHAOS released debut album

American Groove Metal band EDGE OF CHAOS released their debut album «A Man Called Martyr». The album was recorded at "Big Sexy Studios", and mixed/mastered by  Frank Birkner.

EDGE OF CHAOS was formed in 2015 at Vineland, New Jersey by Frank Birkner (vocals/guitar), DJ Hill (bass) and Jon Blair (drums). In 2018 Greg Henderson (guitar) joined the band, and the lineup was completed.