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SAVAGED – Night Stealer
Interesting!
That’s the word that came to my mind when I heard “Running for Your Love (Tonight)”; it’s been the first single taken from the...
OVERLORDE – Awaken the Fury
At last, OVERLORDE are back. Almost twenty years after their monumental album "Return of the Snow Giand", the Americans emerge once again from their...
SILVER R.I.S.C – Knot Over
Into the silver
SILVER R.I.S.C: Every time that this particular name comes into my mind, I perform an instant flashback to a magical period when...
COVEN JAPAN – Earthlings
COVEN JAPAN emerge from the far east, the Land of the Rising Sun and have been around since 2016. Their name should ring a...
MARCH TO DIE – Tears of the Gorgon
Let’s just be straight as an arrow: what we deal with in this review is nothing less than the band’s name indicates. MARCH TO...
HEAVY LOAD – Riders of the Ancient Storm
The entire FORGOTTEN SCROLL editors team, reviews the new HEAVY LOAD album:
Forty years. An entire life someone may point. Yes forty years has passed...
TRIUMPHER – Storming the Walls (2nd press, No Remorse Records, 2023)
Let me begin with a personal statement: this is an album that impressed me since the very first listening and is without any doubt...
TOWER HILL – Deathstalker
So I come home from work, change into my funky pyjamas, pour some zerofat Greek yogurt along with whole grain tachin and reiki honey...
LEGENDRY – Time Immortal Wept
Behold! The long-awaited return of master metalsmiths’ trio from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. After four years, LEGENDRY are finally ready to present the sequel to...
BY FIRE AND SWORD – Glory
Live by the Sword
BY FIRE AND SWORD from Idaho, USA are presenting their "Glory" debut album, a release that instantly caught my attention even...
MACE ‘N’ CHAIN – Among Ancient Pillars
Well, well, well it seems that No Remorse has hit the jack pot with this one. MACE ‘n’ CHAIN is the new sensational proposition...
PROTEAN SHIELD – Protean Shield
Fire, Iron, Protean Shield
PROTEAN SHIELD from Athens, Greece, started their journey to the obscure paths of Epic Metal somewhere around the summer of 2019....
SACRED OUTCRY – Towers of Gold
We are living in a (golden?) age when hundreds -if not thousands- of titles are released on a monthly basis in every type of...
DRAGONNE – On Dragons Wings (Reissue 2023)
DRAGONNE was a heavy/power metal band from Los Angeles, and the “On Dragons Wings” EP was its first release back in 1988. The album...
DRAGONNE – On My Back
After the very good “On Dragons Wings” EP in 1988, DRAGONNE from Los Angeles started recording the second album, which was never completed, under...
DOOMOCRACY – Unorthodox
It seems like a hard task for a band to remain focused on the basic elements and the aesthetic side of a musical genre,...
INCURSION – Blinding Force
Time works in so strange ways; INCURSION from the United States was formed in 1982 and prepared its first demo in 1984. The band...
RIOT CITY – Electric Elite
If someone asks me to point a great -not simply good or worth checking- Heavy Metal band of today, I would point RIOT CITY...
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)...
JUDICATOR – Concord
I absolutely love JUDICATOR.
So, this may come straight from a fan’s heart—trying to keep a critical eye open!
While the band’s epic, historically themed albums...
TRIUMPHER Interview
On the occasion of the recent release of Triumpher’s second album, “Spirit Invictus”, and after its presentation on Forgotten Scroll (here) the time has...