CD Reviews 2020

â—Š ACARASH: Descend To Purity
â—Š AETHER REALM: Redneck Vikings From Hell
â—Š AETHER REALM: Tarot (rerelease)
â—Š AGES: Uncrown
â—Š AIRBAG: A Day At The Beach
â—Š ALESTORM: Curse Of The Crystal Coconut
â—Š ALKYMIST: Sanctuary
â—Š ALTER BRIDGE: Walk The Sky 2.0 (RP)
â—Š AMBERIAN DAWN: Looking For You
â—Š AND OCEANS: Cosmic World Mother
â—Š ANGELLORE: Rien Ne Devait Mourir
â—Š APHONIC THRENODY: The Great Hatred
â—Š ARCHON ANGEL: Fallen
â—Š ARCTIC RAIN: The One
â—Š ARMORED SAINT: Punching The Sky
◊ ARSTIDIR LIFSINS: Saga á tveim tungum II: Eigi fjǫll né firðir
â—Š ASENBLUT: Die Wilde Jagd
â—Š ASPHALT VALENTINE: Twisted Road
â—Š ASSIGNMENT: Reflections
â—Š ATAVIST: III Absolution
◊ AUDN: Vökudraumsins fangi
â—Š AUTUMNBLAZE: Welkin Shores Burning
â—Š BLACK SWAN: Shake The World
â—Š BLOODBOUND: Bloodheads United (EP vinyl)
â—Š BROTHERS OF METAL: Emblas Saga
â—Š CALIGULA'S HORSE: Rise Radiant
â—Š CANDLEMASS: The Pendulum (EP)
â—Š CELESTIAL SEASON: The Secret Teachings
â—Š CHRONICLES OF HATE: The Birth Of Hate
â—Š COMMUNIC: Hiding From The World
â—Š CONSTRAINT: Tides Of Entropy
â—Š COURSE OF FATE: Mindweaver
â—Š CREMATORY: Unbroken
â—Š CRISTIANO FILIPPINI'S FLAMS OF HEAVEN: The Force Within
â—Š DARKER HALF: If You Only Knew
â—Š DARK FOREST: Oak, Ash & Thorn
â—Š DARK FORTRESS: Spectres From The Old World
â—Š DARK MATTER: Nebula To Black Hole
â—Š DARK TRANQUILLITY: Moment
â—Š DAWN OF SOLACE: Waves
â—Š DEATHWHITE: Grave Image
â—Š DECEMBRE NOIR: The Renaissance Of Hope
â—Š DEMONS & WIZARDS: III
â—Š DENNIS DEYOUNG: 26 East Volume I
â—Š DGM: Tragic Separation
â—Š DIABULUS IN MUSICA: Euphonic Entropy
â—Š DIE KREATUR: Panoptikum
â—Š DISILLUSION: Between (single)
◊ DÖDA HAVET: Tid och rum
â—Š DOMINIA: The Withering Of The Rose
â—Š DRACONIAN: Under A Godless Veil
â—Š DREAMS OF AVALON: Beyond The Dream
â—Š DUKES OF THE ORIENT: Freak Show
â—Š DUN RINGILL: Library Of Death
â—Š DWAAL: Gospel Of The Vile
◊ DYNFARI: Myrkurs er þörf
â—Š EARTH ROT: Black Tides Of Obscurity
â—Š ECNEPHIAS: Seven - The Pact Of Debauchery
â—Š EISREGEN: Leblos
â—Š ELDER: Omens
â—Š ENSIFERUM: Thalassic
â—Š ENSLAVED: Utgard
â—Š EYE OF NIX: Ligeia
â—Š FAIRYLAND: Osyrthianta
â—Š FALCONER: From A Dying Ember
â—Š FALLEN ARISE: Enigma
â—Š FATES WARNING: Long Day Good Night
â—Š FELLWARDEN: Wreathed In Mourncloud
â—Š FER DE LANCE: Colossus (EP)
â—Š FEUERSCHWANZ: Das Elfte Gebot
◊ FINNTROLL: Vredesvävd
â—Š FIRES IN THE DISTANCE: Echoes From Deep November
â—Š FIREWIND: Firewind
â—Š FISH: Waltschmerz
â—Š FLEETBURNER: Idem
â—Š FORTID: World Serpent
â—Š GAEREA: Limbo
â—Š GENUS ORDINIS DEI: Glare Of Deliverance
â—Š GODTHRYMM: Reflections
â—Š GRAVE DIGGER: Fields Of Blood
â—Š GREEN CARNATION: Leaves Of Yesteryear
â—Š HAIL SPIRIT NOIR: Eden In Reverse
â—Š HEATHEN FORAY: Weltenwandel
â—Š HELL IN THE CLUB: Hell Of Fame
â—Š HINAYANA: Death Of The Cosmic (EP)
â—Š HOUSE OF LORDS: New World - New Eyes
â—Š HYPNOS: The Blackcrow
â—Š IHSAHN: Pharos (EP)
â—Š IHSAHN: Telemark (EP)
â—Š IVANHOE: Blood And Gold
â—Š JORN: Heavy Rock Radio II - Executing The Classics
â—Š KALL: Brand
â—Š KANSAS: The Absence Of Presence
â—Š KANSEIL: Cant Del Corlo (EP)
â—Š KARG: Traktat
â—Š KATATONIA: City Burials
◊ KATLA: Allt þetta helvítis myrkur
◊ KAUNIS KUOLEMATON: Syttyköön Toinen Aurinko
â—Š LEAVES' EYES: The Last Viking
â—Š LET US PREY: Virtues Of The Vicious
â—Š LIGHT FIELD REVERIE: Another World
â—Š LIQUID THERAPY: Breathe
â—Š LORD OF LIGHT: Morningstar
â—Š LORDS OF BLACK: Alchemy Of Souls
â—Š LOTUS THIEF: Oresteia
â—Š LUNATIC SOUL: Through Shaded Woods
â—Š MAGNUM: The Serpent Rings
â—Š MARCHE FUNEBRE: Einderlicht
â—Š ME AND THAT MAN: New Man, New Songs, Same Shit Vol. I
â—Š MEMORIES OF OLD: The Zeramin Game
â—Š MERCURY CIRCLE: The Dawn Of Vitriol (EP)
â—Š MORSE / PORTNOY / GEORGE: Cov3r To Cov3r
â—Š MORS PRINCIPIUM EST: Seven
â—Š MY DYING BRIDE: Macabre Cabaret (EP)
â—Š MY DYING BRIDE: The Ghost Of Orion
â—Š MYGRAIN: V
â—Š MYSTIC PROPHECY: Metal Division
â—Š NACHTBLUT: Vanitas
â—Š NAGLFAR: Cerecloth
â—Š NEAL MORSE: Sola Gratia
â—Š NEPHYLIM: Severance Of Serenity
â—Š NIGHT CROWNED: Impius Viam
â—Š NIGHT IN GALES: Dawnlight Garden
â—Š NILS PATRIK JOHANSSON: The Great Conspiracy
â—Š NOCTE OBDUCTA: Irrlicht
â—Š NOCTU: Gelidae Mortis Imago
â—Š NONEXIST: Like The Fearlss Hunter
â—Š NORTHWIND: History
â—Š NOVENA: Eleventh Hour
◊ NYRST: Orsök
â—Š OCEANS OF SLUMBER: Idem
â—Š OLD CORPSE ROAD: On Ghastly Shores Lays The Wreckage Of Our Lore
â—Š ON THORNS I LAY: Threnos
â—Š ORPLID: Deus Vult
â—Š OSI AND THE JUPITER: Appalachia (EP)
â—Š PARADISE LOST: Obsidian
â—Š PERCHTA: Ufang
â—Š PERSUADER: Necromancy
â—Š POEMA ARCANVS: Stardust Solitude
â—Š POWERWOLF: Best Of The Blessed
â—Š PSYCHOTIC WALTZ: The God-Shaped Void
â—Š PYOGENESIS: A Silent Soul Screams Loud
â—Š PYRAMAZE: Epitaph
â—Š RAGE: Wings Of Rage
â—Š RE-ARMED: Ignis Aeternum
â—Š RED MOON ARCHITECT: Emptiness Weighs The Most
â—Š REVOLUTION SAINTS: Rise
â—Š SCHWARZER ENGEL: Kreuziger Mich (EP)
â—Š SCULPTOR: Untold Secrets
â—Š SECRETS OF THE MOON: Black House
â—Š SEMBLANT: Obscura
â—Š SERENITY: The Last Knight
â—Š SHINING BLACK: idem
â—Š SHORES OF NULL: Beyond The Shores (On Death And Dying)
â—Š SINISTHRA: The Broad And Beaten Way
â—Š SMACKBOUND: 20/20
â—Š SMOULDER: Dream Quest Ends (EP)
â—Š SOILWORK: Whisp Of The Atlantic (EP)
â—Š SOJOURNER: Premonitions
â—Š SOLOTHUS: Realm Of Ash & Blood
◊ SÓLSTAFIR: Endless Twilight Of Codependent Love
â—Š SONS OF APOLLO: MMXX
â—Š SORCERER: Lamenting Of The Innocent
â—Š SPELLBOOK: Magick & Mischief
â—Š STYGIAN CROWN: Idem
â—Š SURMA: The Light Within
â—Š SUNKEN: From Slow Sleep Like Death
◊ SVÄRD: The Rift (EP)
â—Š TETHRA: Empire Of The Void
â—Š THEOPHAGIST: I Am Abyss
â—Š THE DEVIL'S TRADE: The Call Of The Iron Peak
â—Š THE FLOWER KINGS: Islands
â—Š THE MOON AND THE NIGHTSPIRIT: Aether
â—Š THE SPIRIT: Cosmic Terror
â—Š THE WIZAR'D: Subterranean Exile
â—Š THRUDVANGAR: Vegvisir
â—Š THURISAZ: Re-Incentive
â—Š THY DESPAIR: The Song Of Desolation
â—Š TIM BOWNESS: Late Night Laments
â—Š TOKYO MOTOR FIST: Lions
â—Š TOMORROW'S RAIN: Hollow
â—Š TOUNDRA: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
â—Š TRICK OR TREAT: The Legend Of The XII Saints
â—Š TUATHA DE DANANN: The Tribes Of Witching Souls (EP)
â—Š UADA: Djinn
â—Š ULCERATE: Stare Into Death And Be Still
â—Š UNLEASH THE ARCHERS: Abyss
â—Š UNREQVITED: Mosaic II
â—Š VARG: Zeichen
â—Š VEIL OF SECRETS: Dead Poetry
â—Š VELKHANOS: The Wrath
â—Š VEONITY: Sorrows
â—Š VERIKALPI: Tuoppitanssi
â—Š VICTORIUS: Space Ninjas From Hell
â—Š VOLCANOVA: Radical Waves
◊ VÖLUR: Death Cult
â—Š VREDEHAMMER: Viperous
â—Š VRÃŽMUOT: O Tempora O Mores!
â—Š WARKINGS: Revenge
â—Š WE SELL THE DEAD: Black Sleep
â—Š WILDERUN: Veil Of Imagination
â—Š WINTERFYLLETH: The Reckoning Dawn
â—Š WITHERING SURFACE: Meet Your Maker
â—Š WOLFHEART: Wolves Of Karelia
â—Š WOLVES DEN: Miserere
â—Š XENO: Sojourn
â—Š XIV DARK CENTURIES: Waldvolk
â—Š YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS: Hostis Humani Generis
â—Š ZHAKIAH: Where The Light Will Thread

DVD reviews 2020

â—Š HAMMERFALL: Live! Against The World(Bluray/2CD)
â—Š KAMELOT: I Am The Empire - Live From The 013(DVD/2CD)
â—Š REDEMPTION: Alive In Color(DVD/2CD)
â—Š SEPTICFLESH: Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX (DVD/2CD)
â—Š SKALMOLD: 10 Year Anniversary - Live in Reykjavik(bluray/2CD)
â—Š THE NEAL MORSE BAND: The Great Adventour - Live in Brno 2019 (2blu-ray/2CD)


Interviews 2020

◊ ARSTIDIR LIFSINS: Sagas from Iceland Interview with Stefán (g, b, voc) by Vera in May 2020
â—Š ATAVIST: Ponderous doom metal from the UK Interview with guitarist Chris Naughton by Vera in June 2020
â—Š CRISTIANO FILIPPINI'S FLAMES OF HEAVEN: From Classic To Metal Interview with Cristiano Filippini by Vera in November 2020
â—Š FELLWARDEN: Blackened Reveries about Nature Interview with The Watcher by Vera in July 2020
â—Š FEN: Beyond England's Marshy Waters... Interview with The Watcher (voc,git) by Vera in December 2019
â—Š GREEN CARNATION: Finally new music! Interview with singer Kjetil Nordhus by Vera in April 2020
â—Š KATLA: About White Darkness Interview with Gudmundur Oli Palmason by Vera in October 2020
â—Š MARCHE FUNEBRE: Op weg naar de einder Interview met zanger Arne Vandenhoeck door Vera in September 2020
â—Š OLD CORPSE ROAD: Dark folkloristic view on British black metal Interview with The Dreamer (drums) by Vera in May 2020
â—Š SECRETS OF THE MOON: Isolated into the Black House Interview with vocalist/guitarist Phil Jonas (sG) by Vera in April 2020
â—Š SINISTHRA: Melancholic brilliance from Finland! Interview with drummer Erkki Virta by Vera in May 2020
â—Š SOILWORK: Their Progressive Summit! Interview with David Andersson by Vera in November 2020
â—Š STYGIAN CROWN: New, yet experienced collective Interview with drummer Rhett Davis by Vera in July 2020
â—Š THURISAZ: Licht Na De Duisternis Interview met zanger/gitarist Peter Theuwen door Vera in Augustus 2020
â—Š WINTERFYLLETH: Epic black metal about rural landscapes Interview with vocalist/guitarist Chris Naughton by Vera in April 2020

Concertreviews 2020