Record Reviews

Fabulous symphonic black metal from Sweden: Elliott Crafoord returns with a haunting new Unhallowing album.

Swedish doom masters Candlemass seemingly can do no wrong as they, yet again, prove on a terrific new EP.

Michael Amott and his colleagues in Arch Enemy are not playing it safe with the new album. They take it to another level and throw in some twists along the way.

Sweden’s Angeline is back with a new album filled with clean rock for grown-ups.

Destruction’s 16th studio album is a thrash metal carnival that will hurt your neck!

Tobias Sammet is back with his star-studded Avantasia rock’n’roll extravaganza.

Tygers of Pan Tang’s Francesco Marras gives us guitar-happy melodic hard rock on his new solo album.

Music to get laid to: Swedish rockers Spiders are back with a new album full of great rock’n’roll.

Ukrainian modern metal band Jinjer takes a giant leap forward with the new album.

Metalcore sung in Swedish? Yeah, Knogjärn makes it work and it is catchy as hell.

Stockholm’s Wrong Way Back shows us that there is still hope for catchy Swedish punk rock.

A less gritty and more mature The Hellacopters soldiers on while Dregen recovers.

Swedish melodic death metal band The Halo Effect curses the silence on its second album.