WICKED LEATHER Season Of The Witch Lost Realm (2026) Rating: 7/10 Fresh out of Barcelona in Spain, Wicked Leather is the latest bunch of headbangers to keep the heavy metal flames flickering. Fronted by the stunning Yamila Martins, who provided backing vocals on the recent Redshark outing (Sudden Impact), Wicked Leather are the fiery female-fronted […]

RAVE IN FIRE Square One High Roller (2026) Rating: 8/10 With cover art that reminds me of some sort of late 90s console game, Square One is the oddly titled new opus from Spanish rockers Rave In Fire who, and excuse my pun, I raved about in the not too distant past with their debut […]

MEGADETH Megadeth BLKIIBLK (2026) Rating: 7/10 I think I was one of the naive souls who expected the final record of Megadeth to be an all-out thrash assault. However, I was a fool to think such a thing, especially when considers that Dave Mustaine and company haven’t been a thrash band since the early 90s. […]

KREATOR Krushers Of The World Nuclear Blast (2026) Rating: 7.5/10 Forty years ago, German band Kreator unleashed their classic album Pleasure To Kill. It remains, to this day, one of the greatest thrash metal records of all time. And that’s why it pains me to say that the Kreator of today is a mere shadow […]

ÚLTIMA BATALLA Última Batalla Self-released (2026) Rating: 6/10 Rumbling like some distant thunder from the 80s, the little known Bogotá, Columbia-based band Última Batalla channels mid-80s doom-coated Euro metal for kicks. Somewhat of a strange brew, this self-titled debut full-length offering creaks and groans like one of those import rack records I took a risk […]

ECTOVOID In Unreality’s Coffin Everlasting Spew (2026) Rating: 7.5/10 Eleven years after their sophomore outing Dark Abstraction, and seven years after their Inner Death EP, Birmingham, Alabama-based death metal act Ectovoid shuffles from the cold mists once again to spew forth a slithering heap of old death metal. Always coated in a sediment of cosmic […]

EXECRATED Mortal Crucifixion EP Self-released (2026) Rating: 7.5/10 Mortal Crucifixion is the debut EP from a miserable Romanian combo who formed last year. Troduta, Max, Sebi, Sofi and Viktor seem like a nice bunch, but there’s no joy to behold within the squelching folds of this solid effort. I’ve always liked my death metal unhygienic […]