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Kreator — Krushers of the World
Best Kreator since Phantom Antichrist. That's the consensus, and watching this it's hard to argue. Bogren on production, Bielak on the artwork, Carcass and Exodus on the tour. Forty-four years in and they didn't half-ass any of it.
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Modder — Live at Helldorado Festival 2025 (Full Set)
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My Dying Bride - Full Show Live at Wacken Open Air 2015
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IGORRR - DAEMONI
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DEEP DIVE Gnome. Antwerp's stoner trio plays better than they sing.
Three Belgians in red pointed hats. Riff-driven stoner with progressive bones and a rhythm section that does not miss. The musicianship is exceptional. The vocals are the only thing keeping Gnome from a tier they have musically earned.
3 May 2026
OPINION UFO. The Band That Time Forgot.
They influenced Tom Morello, Slash, Stone Gossard and Steve Harris. They made one of the greatest live albums in rock. And nobody talks about UFO anymore. That's a crime.
25 Apr 2026
DEEP DIVE Demon Spell. Italian occult heavy metal that stands at the door and knocks on Mercyful Fate's coffin.
Demon Spell's debut album Blessed Be the Dark lands on Dying Victims Productions. The European underground press is broadly positive: catchy, ferocious, occult heavy metal with clear Mercyful Fate DNA. Originality is not the point. Conviction is.
25 Apr 2026
RIFF POST A jazz guitarist plays Master of Puppets and accidentally proves why the riff works
Lucas Brar's 'But It's Jazz' video takes the most iconic thrash riff of all time and plays it in elevator-music chords. The joke lands. But what it actually proves is that the Master of Puppets riff is built on a chord progression strong enough to survive any treatment you throw at it.
18 Apr 2026
DEEP DIVE Crimson Glory. Twenty-six years of silence broken by Chasing the Hydra.
Crimson Glory's first new music since 1999 is here. The reaction is broadly positive: a strong comeback with classic 80s atmosphere, technical riffs and impressive vocals. It needs multiple listens, and it does not quite reach the absolute peak of the band's past. But it is the album that proves the foundation still holds.
18 Apr 2026
DEEP DIVE Hypostasis. The Greek prog band that disappeared for eight years and came back swinging.
Athens four-piece returns from an eight-year silence with Mirror, the second single off their debut album. Production this clean has no business sounding this dark.
17 Apr 2026
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