Odense Metalfest 2025 Wrap Pt.1 Slow Dragon Music returned to Denmark’s Odense Metalfest for another fix of Scandinavian metal and hardcore. In 2023, we made our first foray to Odense Metalfest, at Musikhuset Posten (read our wrap article here). Suitably impressed by the community, venue, and excellent lineup, we had…

Feeding Frenzy: OvO – Gemma   OvO – Gemma Release Date: 03rd October 2025||Genre: Electronic / Industiral|| Label: Artoffact Records   An ethnomusicological lesson in just getting it right. Italian iconoclasts OvO have just dropped their eleventh studio album, Gemma, via Artoffact Records, marking an unforgettable twenty-five years in action….

Feeding Frenzy: Ba’al – The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here Ba’al – The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here Release date: 18th July 2025||Genre: Progressive black/doom metal|| Label: Road To Masochist South Yorkshire prog extremists return with their second platter of metal connoisseur indulgence. In the beginning, this album…

Feeding Frenzy: Balkan Metal Meet Sofia 2024 festival wrap In Summer, Slow Dragon Music revisited the Balkan Metal Meet festival series, this time in Sofia, Bulgaria. As a city, there were some similarities to Tirana. The post fascist/post communist history is still palpable, as well as the influence of various religions,…

Feeding Frenzy: Gaerea – Coma Gaerea – Coma Release Date: 25th October 2024||Genre: Black/extreme metal||Label: Season of Mist Portugal’s new kings of black metal are about to rouse the masses with Coma On paper, Gaerea‘s fourth full-length is a simple continuation of their previous works. If, like me, you still…

Feeding Frenzy: Flotsam and Jetsam – I Am The Weapon Flotsam and Jetsam – I Am The Weapon Release Date: 13th September 2024||Genre: Thrash metal||Label: AFM Records Phoenix’s thrashing finest drop the bomb with their 15th album, I Am The Weapon Let’s not mess about. You’re very likely to get…

Feeding Frenzy: Nile – The Underworld Awaits Us All   Nile – The Underworld Awaits Us All Release Date: 23rd August 2024||Genre: Technical death metal||Label: Napalm Records And the award to most poetic song title goes to… Distilling their trademark Egyptology, South Carolina’s Nile head back to Karl Sanders‘ own…

Feeding Frenzy: Marche Funèbre – After The Storm Marche Funèbre – After The Storm Release Date: 27th September 2024||Genre: Death-doom||Label: Ardua Music Marche Funèbre drop a tombstone of haunting doom with their fifth album, After The Storm Yes, I’ve certainly seen the name about. Yet despite a fifteen year existence,…

Inferno 2024 Festival and Conference wrap Pt.3 The concluding third installment of the Slow Dragon Music experiential wrap write-up of this year’s Inferno Metal Festival and Conference. It has taken us some time, but after talking about the kick off days in Part 1, and that start of the actual…

Inferno 2024 Festival and Conference wrap Pt.2 Slow Dragon Music follows up on the experiential wrap write-up of this year’s Inferno Metal Festival and Conference. Welcome back! In Part 1, we talked about everything up to the end of the first session of Inferno Music Conference panels. It’s amazing to…