Metal Temple

14/02/2025

https://metal-temple.com/review/cercle-du-chene-recits-dautomne-et-de-chasse/

Cercle du Chêne - Récits d'Automne et de Chasse - (7/10) - Antiq Label

Although it was a good album, too many of the songs sounded similar to one another. If the band could find a way to break some of them up, it would go a long way to the improvement of the album. But it was an enjoyable listening experience for me.

13/02/2025

https://metal-temple.com/review/soaring-soaring/

Soaring - Soaring - (9/10) - Stellar Frequencies

“Soaring” is an album that ascends, stretching its reach beyond earthly constraints, but it does so with an overwhelming sense of sorrow and fury, like the way fire rises into the sky, or the way storms carve their path across the sky. It is the relentless pursuit of something greater,…

13/02/2025

https://metal-temple.com/review/besna-krasno/

Besna - Krásno - (10/10) - Independent

This is an album of is an album of extremes—where seething hatred meets tragic melody, where chaos gives way to mournful introspection, and where a deep-rooted despair is counterbalanced by a raw, unyielding resilience. But there is no passive resignation here—only fury, only defiance. The drumm...

13/02/2025

https://metal-temple.com/review/noctambulist-noctamblist-ii-de-droom/

Noctambulist - Noctambulist II: De Droom - (9/10) - Northern Silence Productions

Few albums manage to walk the razor-thin line between ferocity and elegance as masterfully as this. With a soundscape that embraces the raw, unrelenting aggression of Black Metal while intertwining it with haunting, melancholic melodies, this album carves out its own space in the genre’s ever-expa...

13/02/2025

https://metal-temple.com/review/adrift-dry-soil/

Adrift - Dry Soil - (9/10) - Independent

What makes “Dry Soil” particularly striking is its ability to be both suffocating and hypnotic. After all these years, the band hasn’t just continued their trajectory—they’ve sharpened their vision, refining their sonic nihilism into something even more potent. “Dry Soil” doesn’t jus...

13/02/2025

https://metal-temple.com/review/crown-magnetar-punishment/

Crown Magnetar - Punishment - (7/10) - Unique Leader Records

This was one of the most punishing Deathcore EPs that I have ever heard. The band took what was done before them, multiplied it by four, and shoved it down your throat like bitter medicine, and it burned all the way down to your stomach.

12/02/2025

https://metal-temple.com/review/gentle-beast-vampire-witch-reptilian-super-soldier-from-outer-space/

Gentle Beast - Vampire Witch Reptilian Super Soldier (From Outer Space...) - (8/10) - Sixteentimes Music

Yeah, this was a cliché album when it comes to the subject matter, and they make no bones about it. But let me clear that it was also a real banger, and something I enjoyed it quite a lot. They have a simple honesty with themselves and that’s how they…

12/02/2025

https://metal-temple.com/review/grey-mountain-grey-mountain/

Grey Mountain - Grey Mountain - (8/10) - Eat Lead and Die Music ClawHammer PR

There aren’t too many unique Metal bands out there these days, but count GREY MOUNTAIN as one. At is core, I would describe it a combination of Death and Doom Metal, but with a hearty side helping of surprises. Sometimes the surprises are tasty morsels of melody for example. I…

12/02/2025

https://metal-temple.com/review/fragmentary-solid-abyss-concento-pavor-nocturnus/

Fragmentary Solid Abyss - Concento Pavor Nocturnus - (7/10) - Independent

All in all, this is a decent little album but it would better resonate with me if there was more focus on full length songs than the shorter instrumentals.

12/02/2025

https://metal-temple.com/review/moondark-the-abysmal-womb/

MOONDARK - The Abysmal Womb - (6/10) - Pulverised Records

Ultimately, MOONDARK’s “The Abysmal Womb,” is a solid album but doesn’t stand out enough to keep my attention for more than a few songs at a time.

12/02/2025

https://metal-temple.com/review/obscura-a-sonication/

Obscura - A Sonication - (8/10) - Nuclear Blast

The challenge with Tech Death bands is making music that isn’t overly sterile, and finding ways to supplant melody in places where the listener might least expect them. OBSCURA have done that with “A Sonication.” The heavier elements keep the album weighted and powerful, and they rule, but the...

12/02/2025

https://metal-temple.com/review/fifteen-stitches-beyond-the-wall/

Fifteen Stitches - Beyond the Wall - (6/10) - Independent

Good, but can be better.

11/02/2025

https://metal-temple.com/review/dreadmask-the-prime-dread/

Dreadmask - The Prime Dread - (8/10) - Independent

11/02/2025

https://metal-temple.com/review/hazzerd-the-3rd-dimension/

Hazzerd - The Third Dimension - (8/10) - Salem Rose Music & M-Theory Audio

11/02/2025

Crowen - Where The Darkness Falls (9/10) - Inverse Records

Not only is CROWEN proficient in exchanging musical styles at random and exactly at the right times, they also have mastered the ability to write and produce bloody good songs. All six of them on “Where The Darkness Falls” make sense from start to finish and somehow, when they enter…

11/02/2025

Garden of Stone - The Grave Mistake (5/10) - Inverse Records

GARDEN OF STONE is a rather new Finnish band from Tampere, as they have only been in existence since 2023. That they are very inspired to write music becomes clear on 15 February 2024, when the EP “Tides Of Decay” is let loose on us as listeners. I must say…

11/02/2025

Scumripper - For A Few Fixes More (8/10) - Dying Victims Productions

It has been ten years since the Finnish band SCUMRIPPER, hailing from Lapeenranta, Etelä – Karjala / Mikkeli, Etelä – Savo, has come together to make a whole lot of noise. The music they make is a mix of Black, Death and Thrash Metal. In just under half an hour…

11/02/2025

The Ferrymen - Iron Will (7/10) - Frontiers Music srl

So, now about “Iron Will”, the fourth album of this international power trio. For more than 54 minutes these THE FERRYMEN how good they are musically.