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7.0
CATTLE DECAPITATIONTerrasite
Terrasite turns ecological dread into sharp, memorable deathgrind without sacrificing weight or momentum.
2.0
AVANTASIAThe Metal Opera
Avantasia’s debut metal opera buries a few decent power metal hooks beneath stiff narration, generic writing and exhausting theatrical excess.
5.0
MOONSORROWVoimasta ja Kunniasta
Moonsorrow build an imposing pagan-metal landscape, but repetition and blunt transitions leave too much of the journey unresolved.
5.0
CARCASSReek Of Putrefaction
Historically potent but sonically punishing, Reek of Putrefaction is more manifesto than fully formed album.
8.0
ARCH ENEMYDeceivers
Deceivers turns Arch Enemy’s precision into momentum, pairing sharp melodic hooks with enough emotional contrast to keep the polish alive.
7.0
SEPTICFLESHModern Primitive
Modern Primitive makes orchestral death metal feel urgent again by giving its aggression direction instead of drowning it in decoration.
MAJESTIC POWERFORTRESSKing Fortress: “We Did Not Record an Album - We Negotiated with Eternity”
There are power metal bands, and then there is Majestic Powerfortress: a seven-piece congregation of velvet-clad visionaries who claim to have been formed during a thunderstorm above an enchanted observatory somewhere beyond the measurable boundaries of northern Finland.
7.0
AMORPHISHalo
Halo wraps Amorphis’ melancholy melodies in muscular production, balancing rich hooks with a few stretches of overextended grandeur.
6.0
SABATONThe War to End All Wars
The War to End All Wars delivers sturdy hooks and battlefield momentum, but Sabaton’s familiar machinery shows through the smoke.
8.0
BLIND GUARDIANImaginations From The Other Side
Blind Guardian sharpen their grand design into a dense, dramatic album where layered voices and restless guitars serve the songs.
9.0
JINJERWallflowers
Wallflowers is focused, confrontational and fiercely dynamic: a record where technical power serves a clear emotional and social voice.
8.0
EDGE OF SANITYInfernal
A fractured but compelling Edge of Sanity record, balancing sharp death-metal impact with Dan Swanö’s expanding progressive instincts.
4.0
POWERWOLFCall of the Wild
Call of the Wild has atmosphere and hooks, but Powerwolf’s rigid formula leaves too many songs sounding like alternate costumes on one idea.
9.0
WIZARDTHRONEHypercube Necrodimensions
A dazzling, absurdly ambitious collision of symphonic grandeur, melodic death metal and cosmic excess.
7.0
EXHUMEDSlaughtercult
Compact, tightly engineered goregrind that balances speed, riff density and structural control better than its chaos suggests.
6.0
HELLOWEENHelloween
Helloween’s reunion album is energetic and professional, but its strongest moments come when nostalgia yields to tension.
VISION DIVINEVision Divine’s Olaf Thörsen: “Melody Has To Carry The Weight"
We sit down and explore melody, precision and progressive songwriting in Vision Divine.
8.0
AT THE GATESSlaughter Of The Soul
At the Gates deliver a brutally concise melodic death metal blueprint whose precision, urgency and riff economy remain formidable.
4.0
RHAPSODYPower of the Dragonflame
Rhapsody’s symphonic power metal spectacle is energetic and technically polished, but relentless excess turns grandeur into fatigue.
6.0
TETRARCHUnstable
Unstable turns anxiety into blunt, heavy hooks, though its narrow emotional vocabulary and repeated structures limit the payoff.