Dimmu Borgir returns to the U.S. with their, “Grand Serpent Rising” tour at Denver, Colorado’s Mission Ballroom August 18th, 2026
It has been 8 years since Dimmu Borgir toured the U.S. and I was crazy excited to have...
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Party.San 2025 – We Love Hell
For the 29th time nearly 10.000 fans of the more extreme metal genres gathered at the airport Obermehler near Schlotheim in Thuringia to enjoy - with only a handful of exceptions - mostly variants of Death, Black and Thrash Metal peacefully together while having fun and in-depth discussions about the bands. As you can find a more detailed description of the area in the articles from the last two years, this year’s focus will be more on the tight programme and the most important thing, the bands.
PATRIARKH – Prorok Ilja
Today is the time for an extraordinary album release and one of the earliest in 2025. I listened to it on Christmas Day and I thought it was very appropriate for the day. Of course it is not a Christmas album or any kind of radio-oriented adult music, but the mood was just perfect. Enough said, of course we are talking about PATRIARKH's return with a masterpiece of arcane Black Metal!
Interview with Hasthur of Welkin
I believe that the highest ecstasies that one can reach with live music are always far greater than that obtainable from recordings, both as a performer and spectator (which when confronted with the purest music, such a distinction between the two breaks down)
Sodom – Evil Obsession Tour 2023
With four gigs from 27th through 30th December, Sodom, Knife, Imha Tarikat and Soulburn decided that their fans had enough quiet Christmas time with their family.
The Future of Metal – Panel & Finissage
Report to the finissage of the metal exhibition "Der harte Norden" hosted by the embassies of the Nordic countries Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland in Berlin in summer 2023.
Knife – Heaven Into Dust
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of seeing Knife at the Rock & Metal Day'z festival. I had a little chat with singer Vince Nihil and he mentioned the "soon to be released" new album. The wild speed metal performance of Knife convinced me quite a lot, so here it is, the review of "Heaven Into Dust", to be released on 25th August 2023.
Party.San Metal Open Air 2023
The line-up this year was limited to “real” metal, nothing else. I like some fun stuff in between too, but this Party.San line-up was like going back to my youth, a lot of Death Metal. It was a pleasure to see Obituary and Hypocrisy having a headliner spot with an awesome sound, and not just in the afternoon. The sound, by the way, was really great in general. And it was fantastic to see many Death and some Black Metal bands. Some of which I ‘ve never had the chance of seeing before, and now all of them just one after the other.
Album Review: Dødheimsgard – Black Medium Current
After a long wait the progressive black metal eccentrics Dødheimsgard are back with an LP titled “Black Medium Current”. It is great to see the band consistently putting out great music even after almost thirty years of existence. It can be a bit much to take in at a first listen, however, repeated listens are rewarding - which is kind of what prog-metal music-nerds who write and read reviews like this seek anyway… So kick back and dive into this monumental piece of blackened/progressive metal art.
Depresy – Psycold (Album Review)
Slovakia’s Black Metal Torch Bearers The Slovak formation Depresy might not be a household name internationally, but in...