In Aphelion – Reaperdawn

Artist: In Aphelion Country: The Netherlands / Sweden Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 With ‘Reaperdawn’ the Swedish/Dutch alliance of In Aphelion delivers their second full-length album, and while the band is regarded as a new band…

Necrophobic – In The Twilight Grey

Artist: Necrophobic Country: Sweden Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 After the release of the ‘Death To All’-album in 2009 the future for Necrophobic never seemed brighter: a killer new record, a flawless back catalogue and a…

Upon Stone – Dead Mother Moon

Artist: Upon Stone Country: USA Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2024 The early 90’s were the domain of Swedish Death Metal in its most primal form, following the path first paved by Nihilist and giving way to…

Marduk – Memento Mori

Artist: MardukCountry: SwedenLabel: Century Media RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2023 Five years. There hasn’t been this much time between two Marduk studio albums in the 33 years of their existence. Not that the best rested idly in the intermediate period.…

Enforced – War Remains

Artist: EnforcedCountry: USALabel: Century MediaFormats: LP / CDYear: 2023 Although the blending of Thrash Metal and Hardcore is not exactly something new, and in the 80’s, through bands like D.R.I. and Suicidal Tendencies, it was a breath of fresh air…

Misery Index – Complete Control

Artist: Misery Index Country: USA Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 It is no secret that Misery Index has named themselves after a track of the 1997 released album of one of the best Grindcore bands from…

Unanimated – Victory in Blood

Artist: UnanimatedCountry: SwedenLabel: Century MediaFormats: LP / CDYear: 2021 With their demos, `In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead’ and `Ancient God of Evil’, Unanimated became one of the pioneers of the Swedish melodic Death/Black Metal scene that arose in the…

Soulburn – Noa’s D’Ark

Artist: Soulburn Country: The Netherlands Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2020 I’ll spare everyone the confusing history of Soulburn in which it’s kind of a shuffle with Ashphyx, I assume that when you read this you already…

Tribulation – Where the Gloom Becomes Sound

Artist: TribulationCountry: SwedenLabel: Century MediaFormats: LP / CDYear: 2021 Amongst the earliest rumblings of a soon-to-be revived old school Death Metal earthquake, Tribulation were already releasing several demos and a strong debut. When ‘Formulas of Death’ marked a departure from that…

Krisiun – Mortem Solis

Artist: Krisiun Country: Brazil Label: Century Media Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 Some certainties make life easy and enjoyable, that’s how you know that in addition to the sun rising every day, there is a political crisis in Italy…

Dark Funeral – We Are the Apocalypse

Artist: Dark FuneralCountry: SwedenLabel: Century MediaFormats: LP / CDYear: 2022 What is the point in introducing Dark Funeral? No, there is none. A band that has drawn as much praise as it received rejection. Rejection because the band isn’t matching…

Mayhem – Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando [EP]

Artist: Mayhem Country: Norway Label: Century Media Formats: 12″ EP / CD EP Year: 2021 Mayhem’s latest two albums, ‘Esoteric Warfare’ from 2014 and the latest, ‘Daemon’ from 2019, have divided fans and admirers. Both records are far from easy-listening…

Kivimetsan Druidi – Shadowheart

Artist: Kivimetsan Druidi Country: Finland Label: Century Media Formats: CD Year: 2008 In every scene that gets more popular by the day the record labels tend to sign every fart recorded that might sell. We saw that happening over two…

Terrorizer – Darker Days Ahead

Artist: TerrorizerCountry: USALabel: Century MediaFormats: CD / LPYear: 2006 For all the well-known reasons it took Terrorizer 17 (!!) years to come-up with a follow-up of one of the most influential albums in grindcore history, “World Downfall” from 1989. And…

Rotting Christ – Sanctus Diavolos

Artist: Rotting Christ Country: Greece Label: Century Media Formats: CD Year: 2004 Well, what can I say that haven’t been said before about the master of the Greek sound? Not too much? After a while of playing doomy atmospheric metal…