Tag: ep review
REVIEW: Jo Below – EP: No Control
We first heard about the name JO BELOW when they released the EP "By the Rules" last year. Having been pleased by their enjoyable...
REVIEW: Rioghan – EP: Blackened Sky
Finnish artist Rioghan is a charming and off-the-beaten-path presence on the country’s ever-expanding metal scene. This solo project was founded in 2019 in Lapua,...
REVIEW: Elvenscroll – EP: Never to be Mourned
Originally founded in 2006, folk metal act ELVENSCROLL from Kerava are united by their love for folk metal music. The band may not be...
REVIEW: Cyan Kicks – EP: Not Your Kind
There's been stirring from the CYAN KICKS camp in recent days! Having recently heard vocalist Susanna Aleksandra loaning her voice to one of ARION's...
REVIEW: Cult of Luna – EP: The Raging River
The Swedish kingpins of ethereal sludge, CULT OF LUNA, have stretched the boundaries of the genre on a few occasions ever since the band's...
REVIEW: Temperance – EP: Melodies of Green and Blue
When it comes to melodic symphonic metal, the name TEMPERANCE may not have yet caught your attention in the sea of other bands that...
REVIEW: Roju – Nil
ROJU is an up-and-coming metal outfit hailing from Finland with a fresh release out just now. Their debut EP was released on January 29th,...
REVIEW: External – EP: Stillness
Publishing new music in December is certainly a venture - unfortunately, these releases tend to be overlooked because of all the end-of-year activities. Finnish...
REVIEW: Orbiter – EP: The Deluge
ORBITER is a five-piece stoner doom band formed in Helsinki in late 2014, of which first EP, “The Deluge,” was released independently on January,...
REVIEW: Scour – EP: Black
Even without the live music scene, the world of heavy metal has an oversaturation of bands releasing albums on a weekly basis. As such,...
REVIEW: Joe Below – EP: By the Rules (Musicalypse Archive)
Let me introduce you to a four-piece Finnish melodic progressive/hard rock band, known as JO BELOW. This new band from Helsinki have released a...
REVIEW: Black Sun – EP: Silent Enemy
Ecuador is not exactly the first country that comes to mind when one thinks about rock or metal, yet this is the country from...
REVIEW: Black Sun – EP: Silent Enemy (Musicalypse Archive)
Known mainly in South America for opening for big heavy metal legends, Ecuadorian BLACK SUN have returned to the metal scene with a new...
REVIEW: The Georgia Thunderbolts – EP: The Georgia Thunderbolts (Musicalypse Archive)
If rock 'n' roll ever needed a kick in the pants, it's now. Fortunately, Mascot Label Group has delivered yet another group of American southern...
REVIEW: Mercury Circle – EP: The Dawn of Vitriol
Metal as a genre has existed for approximately half a century and even though a lot of bands have accepted that almost everything has...
REVIEW: Wake Up Frankie – EP: Green is the New Black
WAKE UP FRANKIE may not be familiar to you, but in the Helsinki metal scene, these groove/thrash metal newcomers have been dominating many stages...
REVIEW: Burning Serpent – EP: Burning Serpent
Playing an acoustic guitar is the ultimate zen exercise in precision and songwriting. When you strip away the distortion, by-pass the effects, and swap...
REVIEW: In/Vertigo – EP: Love, Sex & Chaos (Musicalypse Archive)
In the mid-1980s, there was a commercial peak for a specific type of loud, aggressive rock that was layered with hair-spray, singing more or...
REVIEW: Voivod – EP: The End of Dormancy
Charles Mingus was an American jazz legend, whose unique style drew on such diverse musical sources of inspiration as gospel, blues, free jazz, and...
REVIEW: Unknown Decoy – EP: Seeking the Sun
On 28 June 2019, a hard-rock trio from Jyväskylä known as UNKNOWN DECOY released their first and long-awaited EP, “Seeking the Sun,” via Inverse...
