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 "To my ears, Roses from the Deep sounds like a timeless classic rock album" (Marko Hietala) If you've followed the global shenanigans of heavier music over the past decades, you know the name Marko Hietala. And if you don't, I strongly suggest you...

 "To my ears, Roses from the Deep sounds like a timeless classic rock album" (Marko Hietala) If you've followed the global shenanigans of heavier music over the past decades, you know the name Marko Hietala. And if you don't, I strongly suggest you...

MÉLANCOLIA reboot heavy music by striking an uncanny balance between an uncompromising extreme metal beatdownand an earthquaking nu metal bounce. The Australian quintet—Alex Hill [vocals], Joshua Taafe [guitar], Billy Morris[guitar], Toby...

MÉLANCOLIA reboot heavy music by striking an uncanny balance between an uncompromising extreme metal beatdownand an earthquaking nu metal bounce. The Australian quintet—Alex Hill [vocals], Joshua Taafe [guitar], Billy Morris[guitar], Toby...

'9' is the seventh studio album by Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate. '9' was recorded during February and March 1999 and was released in June 1999 through Metal Blade Records. Limited white vinyl pressing. Tracklisting Side A: 1. Last Rites2. Church...

'In the Shadows' is the third full-length studio album by Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate, originally released in 1993. It is the first offering from the band since their reunion in 1992. This would be the final full-length album Timi Hansen would...

Mercyful Fate is a Danish heavy metal band from Copenhagen, formed in 1981 by vocalist King Diamond and guitarist Hank Shermann. Influenced by progressive rock and hard rock, and with lyrics dealing with Satan and the occult,...

Mercyful Fate is a Danish heavy metal band from Copenhagen, formed in 1981 by vocalist King Diamond and guitarist Hank Shermann. Influenced by progressive rock and hard rock, and with lyrics dealing with Satan and the occult,...

'Time' is the fourth studio album by the Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate. It was released in October 1994 through Metal Blade Records. The track "The Mad Arab" is about H. P. Lovecraft's character Abdul Alhazred, the author of the fictional...

Sailing past their tenth anniversary in 2024, Italian doom artisans Messa take another step towards legendary status with their majestic fourth album 'The Spin', inviting the listener on a breathtaking journey across the wide open skies of their creative...

Metal Church return stronger, heavier, and more aggressive than ever before, marking a powerful new chapter in the band’s long and influential history. All songs on 'Dead To Rights' were written by Kurdt Vanderhoof, continuing his role as the...

'Generation Nothing' is the tenth studio album by American heavy metal band Metal Church. It is their first after their late 2012 reunion, and their fourth and last to feature vocalist Ronny Munroe. The 2025 remastered edition impressively bring out the...

Everything ends. Even in the legendary realms of heavy metal, where myths and legends intrude into everyday reality on a daily basis. Members and fans of American metal giants Metal Church became painfully aware of this when they lost their legendary...

'This Present Wasteland' is the ninth studio album by American heavy metal band Metal Church. The album was originally released in 2008, and is the first album to feature guitarist Rick Van Zandt. The 2025 remastered edition impressively bring out the...

Finnish Power Metal force Metal De Facto return with 'Land Of The Rising Sun – Part II', the next chapter in their epic tribute to Japan’s history, culture, and mythology. Building on their debut' Imperium Romanum' (2019) and the first...

With the debut album'Mechanical Spin Phenomena' Mnemic introduced themselves to the metal world impressively:their music, made of heavy Thrash riffs, Progressive elements, modern synthesizers and electronic samples created botha hard and spacy atmosphere...

Firmly placed as both progenitor and progressor within their field, MONO is like no other artist – visceral, engrossing and showing no signs of decay after two decades spent creating waves of beautiful and expansive rock music. Many an artist lays...

MONO & THE OCEAN. 2 bands from very different cultural origins, Japan and Germany… yet spiritually akin and connected by many similarities: a cinematic approach to music, based on lengthy, escalating compositions… the fact that both...

For two decades, MONO have defined and re- fined a kind of orchestral rock that is as emo- tional as it is experimental. Their 10 studio al- bums over those 20 years have established MONO as what Pitchfork described as “one of the most distinctive...

For two decades, MONO have defined and re- fined a kind of orchestral rock that is as emo- tional as it is experimental. Their 10 studio al- bums over those 20 years have established MONO as what Pitchfork described as “one of the most distinctive...

MONO have long drawn equal inspiration from the light and dark of life, spawning more than two decades of musical turbulence and melodic transcendence. Heaven Vol. 1 marks the beginning of a new annual tradition from MONO: A new EP released on Christmas...

The conflict and correlation between dark and light is a universal theme with a historically rich history. Musically, perhaps no band in the 21st Century has mined that relationship more consistently or effectively than Japan’s MONO. Across 10...

The conflict and correlation between dark and light is a universal theme with a historically rich history. Musically, perhaps no band in the 21st Century has mined that relationship more consistently or effectively than Japan’s MONO. Across 10...

Pilgrimage of the Soul is the 11th studio album in the 22-year career of Japanese experimental rock legends, MONO. Recorded and mixed – cautiously, anxiously, yet optimistically – during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the summer of...