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SMOULDER β Witch Wife In An Alien World
I do not take writing about SMOULDER lightly. In yours trulyβs mind, SMOULDER is part of a very small club of contemporary bands, that...
CRIMSON COVEN β I – The Forge
Coming at you at the crawling speed of oneβs perceived impending doom, CRIMSON COVENβs debut full β length I β The Forge is everything...
CARDINALS FOLLY β Let The Posers Fall!
Having gone through three different labels between releases after their first triplet of albums under Shadow Kingdom Records, welcoming a new guitarist after Juho...
SCALD β Relics
Let me begin this review of SCALD's new release in a rather unconventional way, by referring to the promo text, whose closing statement from...
MEGA COLOSSUS β Watch Out!
Raleigh, North Carolina quintet MEGA COLOSSUS have been regarded for long as one of the fantastical standouts of the traditionalist heavy metal sceneβs revival...
GREYHAWK β Warriors of Greyhawk
I firmly remember Chris giving me the first GREYHAWK album for a review back in mid 2020. They were the newest heavy/epic metal sensation,...
MAUSOLEUM GATE β Space Rituals and Magick
Eight years had to pass for the third MAUSOLEUM GATE album to see the light of day. After their impressive self-titled debut in 2014...
PHANTOM SPELL β Heather & Hearth
I have an opinion about Kyle McNeill, and it is this: heβs not trying to revive the so-called good old days by serving some...
FER DE LANCE β Fires On The Mountainside
I had been anxiously awaiting the return of FER DE LANCE.
The band had caught my attention from the very start, with the βColossusβ EP...
THE LORD WEIRD SLOUGH FEG β Traveller Supplement 1: The Ephemeral Glades
ββTravellerββ is an album (the fourth full-length) from the band of THE LORD WEIRD SLOUGH FEG, that was released in 2003 and is considered...
TOWER β Let There Be Dark
It was 2021 when New York-based TOWER released their long-awaited follow-up to their self-titled debut full-lengthβfive years and an EP (βTomorrow & Yesterdayβ, 2019)...
CHRISTIAN MISTRESS β Children of the Earth
Yes, itβs official!
The unparalleled 70βs-style heavy metal of CHRISTIAN MISTRESS from the USA is back after a decade! Cruz del Sur had approached them...
GRENDEL'S SYSTER β Katabasis Into The Abaton
What is epic heavy metal?
Are GRENDEL'S SΕΈSTER epic heavy metal?
Oh, dear, they are no less epic than all the bands out there that scream...
ATTACKER β The God Particle
The gang is back! Famed American metallers ATTACKER are celebrating their 40th anniversary with their newest studio foray and I am absolutely excited writing...
STYGIAN CROWN β Funeral for a King
When STYGIAN CROWN released their self-titled debut, four years ago, I instantly became one the greatest enthusiasts of their music. I knew better than...
MEGA COLOSSUS β Showdown
While I was writing these words, the video of βOutrun Infinityβ came out on Cruz del Surβs YouTube channel. Itβs the second single taken...
SMOULDER β Violent Creed of Vengeance
Epic metallers SMOULDER return with hotly-anticipated second album. Four years have already passed since the release of their "Times of Obscene Evil and Wild...
GATEKEEPER β From Western Shores
GATEKEEPER rocked the scene some years ago, as Canadaβs answer to ETERNAL CHAMPION and VISIGOTH. In fact, quite a time before their debut album...
Issue #6 Out Now
76 pages, 10 interviews.
DAMASCUS (US)
SANCTUM (US)
HORIZON'S END (GR)
LORD OF LIGHT (SWE)
ETERNAL CHAMPION (US)
GOTHIC STONE (IT)
LEVIATHAN (US)
NEAR INFINITY (US)
ANGEL EDGE (US)
OBLIVION KNIGHT (US)
plus
LEGIONED MARCHER (US)...
FORSAKER OF THE THRONE β Exhion
The Hellenic Epic Metal underground has, as of lately, been solidified as the breeding ground for some the very best the genre has to...
ETERNAL WINTER Interview
Prompted by the release of ETERNAL WINTER's latest album "Cosmic Blood, Cosmic Grail", Forgotten Scroll Heavy Metal Magazine caught up with ETERNAL WINTER mastermind and CAULDRON BORN frontman Matthew Knight for a wide ranging discussion encompassing everything; from his Epic Heavy Metal exploits, to Sword & Sorcery literature and even esoteric spirituality.