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Since they've released the first album "Faithless" back in 1992 a lot has changed during the last years. With "Spiritualized D" this Japanese...

When I think DOOM, I think America immediately and that small part of the American east coast that is Maryland, and the D.C. area very often. Do not...

This is a re-issue on the great US American label SOUTHERN LORD, with two bonus tracks and a new layout (not the cover!). BAD ACID was the first...

This is the first release by this New Yorker band, and I must admit that everything about 'Destined For The Sun' sucks. Not only is the music damn...

Thick and sonic, very low and heavy... that's the way the new ELECTRIC WIZARD album crawls out of the speakers. The bands continue their path, which...

Once again the mighty Wizard rises his unfriendly voice in six new songs. And he shows us again his morbid uncompromising visions of this crazy and...

I guess, the name Erik Larson is unknown to most of the readers. Larson played drums for Avail from '91-'99, and he was the singer-drummer of the...

What for a nice album title! But that's not the only nice thing about the new album of US-gorefreaks EXHUMED, again on Relapse Records. "Anatomy Is...

The Negative Action Group aka EYEHATEGOD strikes back with a new album, delivered in best nihilistic tradition. It's still an outstanding heavy band,...

There's no need to write a lot about the beautiful music from EHG, because most people who are into sludge will know New Orleans' masters of misery....

After the "Southern Discomfort" compilation here's the next one, but again it's not one of these senseless "best-of" compilations. You can hear four...

Fasten your brain cells! 'Lunatics Revenge' is a truly rewarding experience of exploring kraut-a-delic sonic galaxies. Germany's ELECTRIC MOON mix...

Frankly speaking, even though being released on PAINIAC RECORDS I didn't expect too much of this, especially after detecting the phrase "Enthroning...

It was not long ago that I complained about the increasing lack of creativity among 1970's heavy rock revivalists and suddenly ETT ROP PÅ HJÄLP appear...

Tranquil, sinister, slowly - growls that seems to emerge from the bottom...vague, incomprehensible - screams from someone who has seen barbarity....

Since 20 years ELECTRIC ORANGE keep the flame of psychedelic krautrock lit and their latest album 'Netto' shows that they are still bursting with...

I received the first self-financed album from ELSUPREMO without any additional informations, therefore it's time to let the music speak for itself....

Outside, it's dark, grey and cold and this split CD-R, released by Build Your Weapons and Dishrag Music Unlimited seems to be the perfect soundtrack...

I didn't know what to expect, when I put this disc into my player. Never ever before I had heard the name ENORMOUS, but after some research I found...

When Wicked Minds guitarist Lucio Calegari recorded his first solo album the musical orientation should be clear: An intense trip back to the early...

First this album has been released on MeteorCity in 2008 as CD edition, but all vinyl junkies will rejoice, because here we have the heavy 180 gr....

If you're a fan of adventurous and challenging music, just listen to the new album from the Boston based band EHNAHRE. It's a genre-busting album that...

This is one of the bands, which music is often mistaken for Doom Metal, but when you compare EVOKEN to bands like Blood Farmers, Saint Vitus, Cold...

For whom does the bell toll but the curious listener that it introduces to the sonic world of Earthen Grave, both song and name of the new playground...

Here now is the second full-length and a few things have changed since their debut 'Prologue'. The label is still Exile on Mainstream Records, who did...

This is my first meeting with Italy's EL-THULE, and it's their second album which has been released this time as a joint venture between Riff Records...

I think if you want, you could write something like "this sounds a bit like Electric Wizard' in quite a number of reviews of newer heavy, doomy albums...

It seems as if the Peruvian band EL HIJO DE LA AURORA have a preference for Led Zeppelin, because they have wrapped 'Lemuria' in the same way as 'In...

Artistic freedom still exists and ENOCH definitely makes use of it. It seems as if there are no stylistic and musical restrictions on 'The Hierophant'...

EL-THULE is based in Italy and yes, they are even singing in their native language, which is still a seldom fact in the heavy rock scene. On the other...

Before the new summer update '05 has been finished, I found this demo in my mailbox, and decided shortdated to add the review to the new stuff,...

ENABLER from Milwaukee take the good old dark metallic hardcore punk (you may call it "crust"...) from the 1980's and mix it with other influences...

Now you probably wonder why there's another review of the third EARTHRIDE album in Cosmic Lava, but the answer is simple: here, we finally have the...

EAGLE TWIN's new output is the follow-up to their 2009 debut album 'The Unkindness Of Crows'. Slight waves of feedback and throat-singing start the...

ENTOMBED belongs to one of the most original Death Metal bands, since the band was formed in the 80's. They released defining albums, like...

The second release from Electric Earth Records in 2008 is nearly a re-issue of  three older songs from ETERNAL ELYSIUM, that were on a split-CD with...

Since this German band was formed in 2004 they've gone through an impressive development. Their debut release was solid and promising, but this first...

I remember my first live experience with End Of Level Boss very well. Me and a friend of mine went into a small pub/club in Münster with a stage...

Poland had not yet come to my attention as a land of traditional Doom Metal. When you think about it, it is strange that there is not much more Doom...

Another great and new band that comes out of the well-known Maryland area and this is their first official release on EARTH BRAIN RECORDS. EARTHRIDE...

Since the beginning in 1997 this Italian band has released several singles and mini cd's in their short history and they had played over 150 gigs all...

This is my first meeting with the Czech band, and after listening to the album it will be the last one! I never was into power metal, and EUTHANASIA...

New material from Italy's heaviest fuzz-kings ! I've lost some good words about their last promo, but "Pachamama" knows to entertain with much...

I'm always lucky when I notice a new life-sign from the current German 70's heavy rock underground, and this time EARTH FLIGHT knows to stimulate my...

If this music follows the term Rock and/or Metal, the emphasis must be on Progressive. There's so much in this album that any attempt to describe it...

It's not really necessary to introduce the Emissions From The Monolith Festival to the interested Cosmic Lava reader. Since a few years, mostly over...

This came along with the other new releases from I Hate Records in 2008 that are reviewed here, and once again the guys from Norrköping, Sweden have...

What starts out with a slow and doomy riff reminiscent of Electric Wizard becomes a cool journey through the world of fuzzy, heavy music. 'Cause just...

2011 saw the follow-up to ELDER's debut album from 2008, which already showed the band to have great potential. With 'Dead Roots Stirring' the...

It is already very long time ago that French heavy rockers GLOWSUN crossed my path. As far as I am able to recall, it was in 2008 when they released...

EMBERCROW come from the north of Germany and 'Trails To The Sun' is their first self-financed EP. With youthful unconcern and unspoilt creativity this...

The French band ECLECTIKA has been in existence since 2001, consisting of a male and female vocalist plus Sébastien Regnier, who is responsible for...

Finally, it's here - EARTHRIDE's second album! And it makes me feel like being 23, when I discovered all the amazing Maryland-bands with the help of...

Over the past few years, some really promising heavy rock bands were born in Poland like for example Lord Stereo, Distant Earth, Oregano Chino, Luna...

Three young Canadians have listen to a lot of heavy 70's Rock, as well as Kyuss and Fu Manchu, than decided to form a band with the concept to base...

A few years ago, when I received Erik Larson's solo debut 'The Resounding',  I was surprised by its diversity  and melancholy. In opposite to his...

Is it an earthquake or a big black train that comes out of my speakers? No, it's the long awaited full-length debut of Maryland's EARTHRIDE and to sum...

Anyone who thinks that Buzzville Records is only limited to bands who revive the spirit of 1970's influenced heavy rock (or metal) has to think again,...