Reviews

If you listen to black metal and happened to open YouTube on 24 June 2026, chances are you saw Black Metal Promotion premiering the new album by Ill Tidings, some ambitious Austrians who also crossed our doorstep a few years ago . Officially...

Do you know that feeling you get when an artist you’ve followed for years finally releases a new album? You wake one day to find that the full record has arrived, press play without hesitation, and everything else simply waits. There is always the fear that looking away, even...

The Greek death/grind metal band Krushya dropped their new album, “DooMinion”, on May 2026. It stands as a sequel to their previous album, “.Dogma.”, continuing a dystopian narrative shaped by domination, control and resistance. The album reflects on the abuse of power, religious oppression, technological domination and psychological warfare imposed by those who rule through corruption and destruction.  Honestly, the Greek underground scene continues to surprise me with its death...

“Less is more”. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe coined the phrase to describe architecture, yet sometimes it proves just as fitting in music. The members of Thrownness are the latest to demonstrate why. Two years after the release of the EP “Marrow”, the Portuguese quartet returned with “Marrow Part II:...

What is there to do when you realise that “Spiritual Healing” turns 35 and “Symbolic” turns 30, and that tracks from both are set to reach your ears live? You start counting down the days until the announced concert date. For Romania, that point was 11 June 2026. So,...

There are those Tuesdays when everything follows its familiar course. You wake up, go to work, return home, and spend the evening with a video game or a movie. Then there are the unusual Tuesdays that pull you away from routine and send you exactly where you ought to...

In Greek, “váthos” means “profundity”. Here, in Romania, the word also means Váthos, a post-black metal band, a group of young people who, sometime in 2017, decided to shape their compositions around themes of inner conflict, vulnerability, alienation, and the healing process. Yesterday, on 7 June 2026, these musicians...

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words “The Calling”? For some, it may be the distant echo of a forgotten road, a voice from a place abandoned long ago, where only dust and memory still keep watch. For others, it may be...

Few words have travelled through history as stubbornly as blasphemy. Kingdoms have risen and fallen around it. Men have been exiled, imprisoned, and executed for it. Entire books have been burned because of it. Yet for all the fear the word once inspired, its meaning remains remarkably simple: the...