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 First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ Picture Credit: Johan Cronqvist Havok - Rorschach Release Date: September 09, 2022 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Duration: 52:02 Genre: Progressive Death Metal Origin: Sweden A slow but consistent duo (including Stygian Tomb’s drummer) has finally blessed us with a new release. The last full-length from the Swedish colossus Havok was released nine years ago - and as massive as Statues of Sisyphus was, the new album manages to develop the band's progressive vector even further. Rorschach distants itself a bit more from the signature Gothenburg sound and dives deeper into the experimental landscape. The album begins with a clear Grammy nominee pop metal sound, however, it is quickly replaced with downtuned chugging riffs, weird time signatures, and intense blasting worthy of early Dark Tranquility...

First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ Picture Credit: Humaniac Humaniac - Until the Light Fakes Us Release Date: August 26, 2022 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Duration: 50:38 Genre: TecDeath / Progressive Death Metal Origin: Moscow , Russian Federation Moscow-based Humaniac is an established unit in their homeland scene - being around for more than a decade, band consists of skilled local musicians from relatively well known bands (check Backdoor to Asylum, Disdained Grace, and Renunciation). Still Humaniac remains the long living and the most diverse creative outlet among them all, standing their grounds in the world of technical metal. Until the Light Fakes Us is the third full length album and with it the band becomes bigger than it has ever been. From the very beginning Humaniac starts unrelenting tech-death assault, based on the ...

  First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ This coverage was created via Musosoup  #Sustainablecurator Click here  and run your own campaign on MusoSoup Picture Credit: Gogo Melone Ophelia's Eye - Hopeless World Release Date: April 15, 2022 Label: selfrelease Format: CD / Digital Duration: 25:28 Genre: Progressive Metalcore / Death Metal Origin: Dulliken , Switzerland Ophelia's Eye are a young band from Dulliken, in the Swiss Canton of Solothurn. In this triangle between the three cities of Bern, Zürich, and Basel, great music for those who love to bang their heads or to go savage in the moshpit has been born. In 2021, Ophelia's Eye have released two singles in which they presented their very own approach to grooving, brachial, and yet innovative and sophisticated Metal. You can read the reviews on the singles here: 'Speak Words of ...

First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ Want to advertise on MangoWave? Send a request to rmangowave@gmail.com Picture Credit: Trees of Daymare Trees of Daymare - Harbinger of the Apocalypse Release Date: August 07, 2020 Duration: 04:03 Genre: Melodic Death Metal Origin: Dhaka , Bangladesh / Stockholm , Sweden 'Harbinger of The Apocalypse' by the international metal duo Trees of Daymare was released in 2020, but now the song is more relevant than ever. The mastermind behind the band is Raad Shahamat Hasan from Bangladesh, who is the author of music, drum programming and lyrics. After joining forces with Swedish vocalist Stefan Nordstrom the new iteration of the act released two singles of pure Norsk metal worship. The synergy of the band is almost tangible, and captures the moment when two artists complete each others creative output perfec...

Picture Credit: Artur Masternak  / Marek "Puzon" Nowakowski  /  Krzysztof źrałek   Bottlekopf - The Jokes are Over Release Date: February 22, 2022 Label:  Wydawnictwo Muzyczne PSYCHO Format: CD / Digital Length: 46:38 Genre: Death'n'Roll Origin: Katowice , Poland Bottlekopf are a trio from Silesian city Katowice (or Katowicy if you prefer the Silesian name). Twelve years ago, the band was founded and has since then released two full-length albums of which the second is the album on hand, "The Jokes are Over". The sophomore longplayer is the result of a long process in which Bottlekopf have found themselves as a band and as musicians. Several line-up changes and finally the pandemic have had its impact on this procedure. And now the second album is here, and it has turned out to be a massive powerload of rolling and stomping Death Metal. On eleven tracks plus an intro and the fading-out final track 'Supplementary', Bottlekopf grab their listeners by t...

  Picture Credit: Mickey Mithrid Art   Ophelia's Eye - The Demon behind my Mind Release Date: October 10, 2021 Length: 04:12 Genre:  Metalcore  /  Death Metal Origin:  Dulliken ,  Switzerland The single on hand is the latest release by Solothurn's rising star Ophelia's Eye. As the title already tells us, this song is about demons. But it is a very special of demons that is dealt with here: it is everyone's very own and unique demon - the voice in our head, the power that makes us do stupid things sometimes, and helps us out of misery some other times. And thus, here is what Ophelia's Eye have to say to us: know your demon, and embrace your demon - love it if you want. The band's very first music video is accompanied by the mélange of Death Metal and Metalcore, Ophelia's Eye are known and loved for. The staccato leads add some Black Metal-like cold to te rough soundscape. And so, Ophelia's Eye present an empowering sound that combines the headbanging dy...

Picture Credit: Riccardo Moccia   Riccardo Moccia - Freewill Release Date: September 10, 2021 Length: 03:23 Genre: Progressive Death Metal / Djent Origin: Rome , Italy Earlier this year, Riccardo Moccia 's debut album "Concertless" was reviewed on MangoWave. Click here to read the article . A bit more than half a year after the release of his first album, Rome's Riccardo Moccia  has announced the sophomore full-length release "Sensed" to be out soon. It will be a concept album about the evolution of our universe with reference to the ancient texts telling us about the Being of Light. As a first appetizer to this new work, Riccardo Moccia  has recently published the album's first ex ante single 'Feewill': The song is opened by a merciless Djent riff with a gorgeously shifted rhythm. With the brachial growls entering the musical stage, 'Freewilll' becomes even more brutal while a Central Asian psychedelic harmony supports the massive sound...

Picture Credit: Mickey Mithrid Art   Ophelia's Eye - Speak Words of Destruction Release Date: July 10, 2021 Length: 03:35 Genre: Metalcore / Death Metal Origin: Dulliken , Switzerland 'Speak Word of Destruction' is the second single off Ophelia's Eye's EP " Fight for us ". If the band name confuses you, that might because the Swiss quintet has changed their name from Project Penny to Red Fire Dragon to Ophelia's Eye. The final name derives from the novel 'Der Sandmann' by German romanticist ETA Hoffmann . The stunning narrative features a character named Olimpia  whose name was changed to Ophelia  in this case. 'Speak Words of Destruction' deals with chasms of human behaviour, like the rest of the EP does, too. In this special case, the lack of communication that often leads to division, separation and conflicts is concerned. Once, communication is lost, a single misunderstanding can lead to major escalation. First time, I listened to ...

Picture Credit: Riccardo Moccia   Riccardo Moccia - Concertless Release Date: February 25, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 39:36 Genre: Progressive Death Metal / Jazzcore Origin: Rome , Italy Riccardo Moccia  is an actor, writer, composer, filmmaker, sound engineer, producer, musician, singer from Italian capital Rome. Shortened, you could say, Moccia  is a professional artist dedicating his work to auditive and visual arts. On hand, we have the latest solo album by Riccardo Moccia  whch follows the 2019 release " Percorsi ". The seven-track release "Concertless" is an album deeply affected by the stormy tides that humankind is currently going through. It is hence a work dealing with different perceptions of thruth and falsehood, new concepts of distance and closeness, and the challenges that come with change and progress. Tieing on to the last word of the previous sentence, "Concertless" is an extremely progressive album. The style played...

Lamagra - Worldcrusher Release Date: December 06, 2020 Label: selfrelease Format: CD / Digital Length: 24:09 Genre: Thrash Metal Origin: Plüdershausen , Germany Lamagra are a five-piece band from Plüdershausen in the Eastern part of the Stuttgart metropolitan area. With "Worldcrusher", Lamagra have published their first release since the 2015 album "Destructive Creation". The outcome is a six-track EP with a bit less than half an hour of forceful Thrash Metal, influences from Death Metal, Metalcore, and a bit of Alternative Metal. Except for the song 'Dem Todgeweihten 2.0' (German: 'For the Moribund'), and parts of 'Sons of War' the lyrics are all shouted in English. Lamagra play a very intense and heavy version of Thrash Metal with stomping rhythms and riffs that roll forward like tank treads. The Metalcore influence is mostly present in the gang shouts that accompany the hoarse and brachial vocals by Alex , and in the beginning of 'Pred...

Picture Credit: Phallosopher Phallosopher - (I) Release Date: March 19, 2021 Label: Inverse Records Format: CD / Digital Length: 29:40 Genre: Blackened Death Metal Origin: Tampere , Finland Jesse Heikkinen  is a very busy musician in Finland's metal scene. The ex-guitarist of The Aeon , member of Hexvessel , and sole musician of Iterum Nata has now created a new solo project called Phallosopher. On the first album "(I)", Heikkinen  describes the struggle of finding spiritual and personal freedom in a world defined by dichotomies. In the neverending fight between binary oppositions, such as ideologies or the basic tension between creation and annihilation, Phallosopher is yearning for a harmonic and peaceful path. Peace and harmony via Black and Death Metal, you might ask? Well indeed, it is not the most obvious path to go but let us have a closer look. Phallosopher mastermind Jesse Heikkinen  describes Black Metal as an instrument for self-liberation and getting rid of s...

Picture Credit: Warhorn Tarbathian Forest Release Date: December 12, 2020 (Digital) / February 02, 2021 (CD) Label: Warhorn Length: 42:00 Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal / Pagan Metal / Black Metal The compilation features nine tracks from nine bands - each of them from the town of Tartu, Estonia. The CD version comes with a three-fold digipack. Get your copy on Bandcamp (link below) and support Estonian underground Metal. Warhorn Online: Bandcamp YouTube Looking for affordable and high quality promotion for your music? Here's MusoSoup! Follow MangoWave on Telegram DONATE