On June 24th Vancouver rockers Rebel Priest released their new EP “Lesson in Love”. This…
Album/EP reviews
5.0 – 5.9 = ★☆☆☆☆
6.0 – 6.9 = ★★☆☆☆
7.0 – 7.9 = ★★★☆☆
8.0 – 8.9 = ★★★★☆
9.0 – 10 = ★★★★★
It has been five years since the last album “Metal Machine”, and now Resistance is…
On September 16th the Israel’s band Sinnery is releasing a new album “Black Bile”. I…
Almost Exactly 1 year after TerraDown winning the Metal Battle in Estrado Harderwijk I receive…
After the 2017 Album Mareridt (Album of the Year Metal Hammer), Myrkur (Icelandic word for…
After four years of silence, since their last album “Wanderer” Heaven Shall Burn, are back…
At a small Festival back in 2018 Graceless was closing off in the Frontroom/Barr of…
From the least populous province of the Netherlands; Zealand, the Hardcore / Punk band: to…
Back in December of 2018, Dhaka, Bangladesh; a new band was formed. Well band, actually…
Back in the middle of 2018, a new band was formed in Germany, called Virocracy….
On Wahlpurgisnacht, the 30th of April, Dwaellicht, the solo project of Jeff Moss, Singer/guitarist of…
Led by the alter ego Angus McFive XIII, the English conceptual power metal band Gloryhammer…
The gents of Splinterbomb took their time, but now there is an EP with the…
Back in 2011, members of Life of Agony, Biohazard and Type o’ Negative came together…
The Amsterdam based metal band For I Am King is going fast the last couple…
When you talk about classic heavy metal bands from The Netherlands, Emerald is definitely one…
To be honest, I’m not very familiar with this metal collective from Sweden. Amaranthe is…
The relative new Dutch hardcore punk band Superhero Status from Eindhoven was founded in 2016…
Formed back in 1989, the death metal band Deicide doesn’t need any introduction in my…
On the 5th of October Behemoth will release their 11th album called “I Loved You…
It has been a while, since the Dutch symphonic death metal collective MaYaN released a…
When Soulfly was founded by Max Cavalera in 1997, most of the people thought it…
Three years after “Of Ghosts And Gods”, the masters of the self invented ‘Northern Hyperblast’…
From Malmö, Sweden comes the deaththrash band Maligner, consisting of Aztiak and Ertheb, both of…
After their last full length album in 2014, the deathmetallers of Demise are back with…
Hailing from the Twente region in the Netherlands, the blackened death metal band The Shiva…
Death metal from Utrecht in your face! Iron Harvest is around since 2012 and these…
The Swedish hard rock band Graveyard is here again with their 5th effort called “Peace”,…
The five-piece melodic death metal band Nox Aeterna from Rotterdam was formed in 2002 and…
If there’s one metal band going fast in metalland, then it is without any doubt…
The American death metal veterans of Skinless return with their sixth studio titled “Savagery” on…
From Hampshire, England the doom metal band Witchsorrow is hailing. They are around since 2005…
The symphonic heavy metal band Amorphis from Finland are ready to release their new album…
After more than 7 years of waiting for new material, Dimmu Borgir is coming to…
Back in 2016 I opened a metal playlist on Spotify to discover new bands. That’s…
The gothic/heavy metal band Crematory from Germany is back with their new studio album called…
The American power metal band Riot V, featuring members of the legendary metal pioneers Riot,…
The Southern hardrock band Black Stone Cherry is still going strong after 17 years. With…
In 2017 the Dutch hardrock band DeWolff celebrated their 10th year anniversary. Not bad at…
The Dutch old school hardcore band For Blood And Vengeance released their EP ‘I Am…
The legend of Primordial lives on and on. The metal band blends black metal and…
Dear friends, I welcome you back to PitKings. This a brand new review of a…
After 3 years of waiting, there’s final a new album from the Swedish death metal…
When I saw the list of upcoming albums in March, I felt like choosing a…
They’re back! Industrial metal pioneers Ministry are making a familiar move: release an album which…
The German heavy metal guitar player Axel Rudi Pell is around since 1984. He started…
The old school death/grind metal band Memoriam from Birmingham are set to unleash their second…
Blaze Bayley – The Redemption of William Black – Infinite Entanglement Part III (album review) ★☆☆☆☆
Dear readers of PitKings, I salute you. Back again with a new review. This time…
After four years the American metal band Machine Head is back with a new album…
Ladies and gentlemen, loyal subjects of PitKings, I salute you. I am here to provide…
We all know Phil as the former guitar player of Motörhead from 1984 till the…
Five years after the Dutch doom/post metal band An Evening With Knives was founded (2013),…
The Dutch melodic death metal quintet Purest Of Pain are ready to release their long-awaited…
The Dutch pagan/folk metal band Heidevolk is around since 2002 and especially the last years…
In 2013 Adrian Vandenberg formed a new (hard)rock band called Vandenberg’s MoonKings and recorded their…
The Dutch melodic death metal band The Heritance from Deventer was founded in 2014. In…
The Dutch guitar player Mendel bij de Leij is well known as guitar player for…
When the mighty record label Nuclear Blast asks a metal band to sign a contract,…
WRCKG are a self described “Dutch melodic hardcore band”, or more succinctly screamo, that formed…
When we talk about classic Dutch metal bands, Jackal is definitely one of them. The…
In 2012 the Amsterdam based melodic death/thrash metal band Seita released their debut album ‘Asymmetric…
The Dutch metal band Blind Justice is one of those bands that seem to pop…
The Amsterdam based progressive metal quintet Hologram Earth welcomes you with their debut album ‘Black…
The Dutch nu-metal band Frontstreet just released their long awaited debut album ‘Reality Check’ on…
Anneke van Giersbergen is back! After The Gathering, Agua de Annique, The Gentle Storm, several…
The Dutch death metal band Bloodphemy from Amersfoort was originally founded in 2000. They released…
When we talk about Dutch old school death metal, we talk about Sinister. This band…
The Amsterdam based stoner rock/metal band Red Eyes was founded in 2007 and released their…
The Dutch black metal band Infinity has been around for a long time: they started…
The Dutch band Sturp tickles the imagination with its slightly weird, but pleasant take on…
Something old, something new… The latest album of Funus ‘Adrift Alone’ was actually waiting for…
The Dutch metal(core) band 13 Steps was formed in 2011 and released their second full…
Founded in 2013, the Dutch metal band OneGodless is packed with experienced band members: Robin…
The Dutch groove metal band Captivity from Arnhem released their first EP ‘Captivity’ in March…
The Dutch metalcore band Start/Over was formed early 2015 and the band started orientating, writing,…
At the time that their debut album ‘Red Dawn’ was released in May 2017, the…
The Dutch hardcore punk band Doodskop is angry again. That’s probably the reason why they…
The Dutch masters of horror Carach Angren are back with their fifth full length album…
Sackback is a relatively young metal band (average age is 17) from Dokkum in the…
For a relatively young band, newcomer Extremities (Eindhoven) is swiftly paving the way within the…
After six long years, the Dutch death metal band God Dethroned is finally back with…
The Dutch/Belgian female fronted modern metal(core) band Spoil Engine is around since 2004 and in…
When Arjen Anthony Lucassen comes up with new music, my heart always starts beating faster….
When I receive an album with the words “mixed and mastered by Jochem Jacobs (Textures,…
What happens when you mix mainstream pop songs with metal? Yes. That’s Pene Corrida. The…
The Dutch hardrock/heavy metal band Lovell’s Blade released their first album ‘Stone Cold Steel’ in…
Two weeks ago (March 21st) we presented you the exclusive premiere of the debut album…
The Dutch hardrock band Shiverburn was formed in 2013 and plays a nice mix of…
It is been a while since the Dutch death metal band The Lucifer Principle released…
The Dutch hardcore band Fists Of Time started as a side project of Dennie Verhulst,…
Amsterdam based female fronted metal band The Charm The Fury is a rising star in…
The rock ‘n roll venue Volt in Sittard was shaking heavily when the Dutch female…
The Dutch female fronted modern metal band Downcast Collision is the second and also successful…
Last year the female fronted symphonic metal band Stream Of Passion announced that they decided to…
The hardrock band SanQuin is the selfproclaimed AC/DC of The Netherlands and launched a new…
Call it off? I don’t think so. It´s on! This Dutch punk band is larger…
The Dutch hardcore band Manu Armata describes themselves as “From the heart in your face,…
The Dutch hardcore band Chelsea Smile started as a group of friends in 2009. After…
The groovy alternative post-metal band A Giant A Genius is from Breda (NL) and has…
Founded in 2008, the Dutch symphonic metal band Beyond God incorporates heavy metal with classical…
