Katla - Scandinavian Pain
Review by RaduP

 

I started my stint as a Metal Storm reviewer with a review of Katla. Shortly afterwards another band by the same name popped up, but it was only now that the second Katla made it to the full length stage to make me be able to cover both bands on the main page.

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Amenra - With Fang And Claw [EP]
Review by musclassia

 

When a band releases two records simultaneously instead of a combined album, it’s safe to assume that there’s a conceptual divide being explored across the two releases. In the case of Amenra, the band attempt to bring together the start and end of their journey to date, while setting a platform for the next era of their career.

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Amenra - De Toorn [EP]
Review by musclassia

 

When a band releases two records simultaneously instead of a combined album, it’s safe to assume that there’s a conceptual divide being explored across the two releases. In the case of Amenra, the band attempt to bring together the start and end of their journey to date, while setting a platform for the next era of their career.

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Effluence - Pianistic Dismemberment
Review by Roman Doez

 

Brutal death metal is often seen as a formulaic and repetitive genre, with every band doing the same thing since the 1990s. While there is some amount of truth to that, there lies a fringe within it that creates some of the wildest and most interesting, chaotic, and experimental metal one could find these days. The likes of Dripping and Encenathrakh make some of the most unique-sounding music you will ever hear. Effluence have for five years now been following in the footsteps of Encenathrakh and delivering some of the best material this sub-sub-subgenre has to offer. And on Pianistic Dismemberment, they decided to change the formula and go even further into the bizarre.

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Steven Wilson - The Overview
Review by RaduP

 

A return to longer form songwriting for Steven Wilson.

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Fange - Purulences
Review by RaduP

 

Reviewing a new Fange album now boils down to finding the balance between showing my frustration at the lack of expected progression, and describing my lasting and thorough enjoyment of their sound nonetheless.

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Ainsoph - Affection & Vengeance
Review by musclassia

7.8

Although its most renowned metal exports have predominantly been in the realm of symphonic metal, the Netherlands has produced a few bands in recent years that are doing quite interesting things within or adjacent to black metal, including the likes of Fluisteraars, Vuur & Zijde and Laster; Ainsoph are another such example.

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Warbringer - Wrath And Ruin
Review by omne metallum

8.2

Hey, they stole the title from Amber Heard's biography.

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