Reviews

Sweden’s Camp Marshy is back with a punky party-rock EP. I love the simplicity and catchiness of this band.

Sweden’s Naglfar combines fierce black metal with melodic death metal touches on “Cerecloth”, its first studio album in eight years.

Sweden’s Chugger is back with a new album filled with groovy extreme metal.

Tuomas Holopainen and Nightwish are back with a splendid new double album. On “Human. :||: Nature.” the band continues on a journey further away from its metal roots.

Yes! The Bay Area heroes in Testament are back with an album that oozes uncompromising old-school thrash metal.

German melodic hard rock band Bonfire is back with a new studio album filled with 1980s-inspired music with riff-happy guitars, plenty of keyboards and great melodies.

Swedish doom masters Candlemass return with an EP of unused tracks from the band’s “The Door to Doom” recording sessions. It is doomy awesomeness.

Swedish rock band Night releases a great new seven-inch vinyl single filled with classic rock and some hints of NWOBHM.

Sweden’s Bombs of Hades, fronted by multitasking artist Jonas Stålhammar, return with a sensational EP filled with a punky and groovy prog-doom-death metal with a difference.

Johanna Sadonis, Nicke Andersson and the rest of Lucifer are back with a third album that is pure magic.

Soundtruck gives us Southern rock-inspired bluesy hard rock straight from Athens, Greece.

Erik Lazaroff & Hökarna is a great new Swedish rock band with a recently released debut album. A terrific sound which combines Pugh Rogefeldt and Roky Erickson and blends it all with scoops of Blue Öyster Cult and November.

Electric Boys’ frontman Conny Bloom, one of Sweden’s few proper rock stars, is back with a splendid new solo album.