Humanness Test have unveiled their new single, “Prima Facie,” along with a video. You can hear it with us first. About the track, the band say: “The phrase ‘Prima Facie’ literally translates to ‘at first sight’ or ‘based on first impressions.’ For us, it naturally… Read More »Video Premiere: Humanness Test – “Prima Facie”
With over 5,000 songs on my iPhone’s “K-Pop Singles” playlist, I thought it would be fun to add a bit of unpredictability to my song review posts. So as a result, we have the “Random Shuffle Review” feature. The rules are simple. I fire up… Read More »Random Shuffle Review: Kara – Mamma Mia
Hailing from Charlotte, North Carolina, prog outfit the Reticent have a history dating back to 2002 with four previous full-lengths under their best. Album number five, “please” attaches a bold thematic step to the band’s Cynic-meets-Alice in Chains-meets-Opeth-meets-Devin Townsend sound. As it should be (and… Read More »Prog Metallers The Reticent Have a Lot to Say About Mental Health/Illness
– December 11th, 2025 – Announce European headlining Tour for March/April 2026! LIK, the modern-day purveyors of classic Swedish death metal, gloriously return to action with a video for “They“, taken from their latest full-length Necro which was released last April. Directed by the band’s… Read More »Swedish Death Metallers LIK Release Video for “They”
A quartet of fresh-faced youths lounging next to a tree in a sunny setting doesn’t exactly scream/growl/wail “extreme Norwegian black metal,” but looks can be (somewhat) deceiving. Sure the lack of corpsepaint is, ahem, a dead giveaway that something is a little different about Fanatisme,… Read More »Full Album Stream: Fanatisme –Tro, håp og kjærlighet