Band: LORD OF LIGHT Title: Morningstar Label: No Remorse Country: Sweden Release date: March 13, 2020 (self-released digitally on 11/11/2019) Format reviewed: (high-rate) mp3 promo "Morningstar" was initially self-released in the late 2019 on digital platforms. Based on the accolades the album received from the fans, just weeks later found LORD OF LIGHT signing a multi-record agreement with the Greek label No Remorse Records. "Morningstar" will be released for the first time

Band: AMBUSH Title: Infidel Label: High Roller Records Country: Sweden Release date: March 13, 2020 Format reviewed: (high-rate) mp3 promo The traditional traits of heavy metal will maintain an important position among this year’s releases. The (more) traditional heavy metal has been already on an ascending trajectory for the last couple of years. Personally, I’m loving it! I don’t necessarily buy into the “nothing can reach the level of timeless classics” analogy - as I stro

Band: DEAD KOSMONAUT Title: Gravitas Label: High Roller Records Country: Sweden Release date: January 31, 2020 Format reviewed: (high-rate) mp3 promo To qualify DEAD KOSMONAUT's music on their forthcoming opus, "Gravitas", simply as heavy metal would be inaccurate. Admittingly, I was unaware of the band's previous offerings: debut full-length "Expect Nothing" (2017) and 2019's EP, "Rekviem". The day before yesterday I've played the promo for the upcoming album for the first t

Band: Bullet Title: Live Label: SPV/Steamhammer Country: Sweden Release date: July 5, 2019 Format reviewed: (double) vinyl LP It was about goddamn time a proper heavy metal double live album got released! As the time progressed, fewer and sparsely apart live albums graced the fans. Not all metal enthusiasts are content with live recordings. Personally, I prefer a solid recording of a band's most popular songs, in a live setting, rather than a "greatest hits/best of" compilati

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix Just shy of fifty years, on Friday, August 15, 1969, at 5:07 PM, when after a short introduction, Richie Havens launch into the first guitar chords of "From the Prison" ... reverberating over the electrically charged air afloat a 600 acres dairy farm near White Lake in Bethel, New York state ... forever changed music! Band: Children of the Sün Title: Flowers Label: The Sign Records Co

ISTAPP - "The Insidious Star" Label: Trollzorn Release date: April 26th 2019 ISTAPP finally return with their fourth long-player “The Insidious Star“ in their known frosty manner! Ever since their formation in 2005 in the South East of Sweden, ISTAPP deliver brilliant masterpieces of noble Melodic Black Metal and celebrate majestic uplifting Scandinavian art. Impetuous wildness meets highly melodic aesthetics strikingly harmonious - a powerful recipe! For several millenn

Band: Heavy Feather Title: Débris & Rubble Label: The Sign Records Release date: April 5, 2019 Country: Sweden Format reviewed: high-rate mp3 promo In case you didn’t notice … there is a massive wave of retro rock coming out of Sweden in the most recent years! Massive. Heavy rock, progressive rock, acid rock, psychedelic rock, hard rock, blues rock … even proto heavy-metal. As most recently, we, the fans and music enthusiasts were spoiled with illustrious releases such as: H

Band: Leach Title: Hymns For The Hollow Label: Independent/Self-release Release date: January 29th 2018 (digital), January 18th 2019 (LP) Country: Sweden Format reviewed: CD quality digital LEACH hailed from Borås, Sweden in 2003, releasing their full-length debut album, titled “Blindfold” in 2012, followed up in 2014 by the “Above All” EP. The band’s current lineup: Markus Wikander (guitar, vocal), Jamie Andersson (guitar), Anders Nordlander (bass) and Joachim Ahlstrom (drum

Swedish post rockers SVARTA STUGAN are scheduled to release their debut album “Islands / Öar” on December 14th 2018, via German label WOOAAARGH. A collection of seven distinctive instrumental tracks, summing up into a musical journey reminiscent of veteran atmospheric bands such as Earth (Olympia, Washington) and Mogwai (Glasgow, Scotland), subtly leaning towards cinematographic composers like Angelo Badalamenti, Phillip Glass and Ennio Morricone. Each of the seven sele