4.5 ★ Ever since CENTURY dropped their first demo, people saw their vision: melodic & anthemic heavy metal for the masses. In 2023, we...

4 ★ Coming off 2023's Crooked Mirror , Poland's own PANDEMIC are back to dish out a second serving of molten-hot steel. Phantoms ups the...

4 ★ A side project of MESSERSCHMITT mainman Maik Jegszenties, DEADLY MAGIC debut with this nice little EP! A mix of power, speed, and...

When it comes to Japanese heavy metal, there is one undisputed band considered to be the ultimate king – that band is LOUDNESS. Formed...

As the Cold War started to finally lose steam in the 1980s, bands would start playing into the whole “chaos and destruction” aspect of...

Formed in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1981, BLOKE would be one of the first (and best) South American bands to fly the flag for heavy...

4.5 ★ After bursting onto the Chilean scene back in 2008, CRUSHING BRAIN have been playing their own special brand of brutal thrash...

4.5 ★ After the much beloved Gates Ajar EP in 2018, fans of SABÏRE were expecting a debut full-length to drop fairly soon but after...

4 ★ Just when I thought we wouldn’t ever get a new SABBAT album, it appeared like a phantom in the night. The first album since 2011’s...

4 ★ Once again – and I’ve said this countless times in the past – Chile delivers the goods. Whether it’s extreme metal, thrash, or trad...

4 ★ The thrash attack of 2024 is strong, folks. Much like The Usurper, this was a random find for me, but when I listened to it, I...

4 ★ When we first started Metal Militia, I remember seeing this crop up in the list of promos we’d be receiving, and everything from the...

3.5 ★ There’s been a recent wave of blackened speed bands ever since Hellripper got somewhat big in the underground back in 2017 or so....

4 ★ When BAT originally appeared as a side project of Municipal Waste under the helm of Ryan Waste, I knew they’d be both a good band and...

4.5 ★ Last year, when PHANTOM released their debut LP Handed to Execution , I was quite blown away. Ironically, despite being from...

★★★★★ Every once in a while, I decide to go on what I call “metal quests.” What these essentially are is me doing a deep dive into a...

★★★ RAVAGE is one of those bands that seem really awesome on paper, but are less awesome upon execution. It’s not even that they’re poor...

★★★ Having not been impressed by anything VULTURE have done since their 2017 album The Guillotine, I didn’t exactly have high hopes for a...

Killer is one of those bands you rarely see mentioned despite their enormous impact on the European metal scene in the early 1980s....

Perhaps one of the most unsung bands when it comes to the chaotic speed/thrash storm, England’s very own BLOOD MONEY never quite got...