Albums Of The Months 2020 If you’re familiar with the old Slow Dragon Music site, you’ll know what the deal is with Albums Of The Months 2020. For those who don’t, the basic premise is that, instead of a straight up pick of all releases throughout the entire year, we…

Dragon Fire: Moonspell, Niklas Sundin, Cult Of Luna and  more – 18||12||20  In the run-up to their 30th anniversary, Moonspell are in the depths of a new album. To celebrate, they recently released a video for Common Prayers. Their previous video, The Greater Good, was deemed a little too much…

Volcano X & Masonic Abyss (interview) Dundee has had its ups and downs in the heavy music scene over the years. At one point, it was a veritable hotbed of new talent for the genre, and, more recently, was proclaimed the UK’s most metal city on Spotify. Of course, we…

Garmarna – Förbundet (album) Release date: 06th November 2020||Genre: Folk rock||Label: Season Of Mist Continuing the unstoppable wave of pagan/folk music addiction is easy business for Garmarna. They’ve been at it for decades. I have to admit, like many others, it’s a style I only got deeply interested in through…

Harlott – Detritus Of The Final Age (album) Release date: 13th November 2020||Genre: Thrash metal||Label: Metal Blade Existing fans will already be aware Harlott are simply fantastic! There you go! Review done! As you may know, however, I am a gobshite, who could talk nonsense about heavy music for days,…

Incinery – Hollow Earth Theory (album) Release date: 30th October 2020||Genre: Thrash||Label: Self release It’s been a little quiet on the Incinery front for a while. We haven’t had a whiff of a new release since 2014’s Dead, Bound And Buried. Now we see them return with a second full-length….

The Bates – Unfucked Live (album) Release date: 04th December 2020||Genre: Punk||Label: Glitterhouse Records Those of you up for a bit of international punk rock education, heads up! The Bates are about to re-release their full live album, Unfucked Live. Limited to 500, red, vinyl copies, this 1992 concert is…

Underground In Prydain: Underground In Prydain Archives Victory! We’ve managed to dredge the vaults and find pretty much all of the old Underground In Prydain articles! For those of you who don’t know, UIP originally started as simple blog. It covered some of the ‘hot topics’ in the music industry,…

Lik – Misanthropic Breed (album) Release date: 25th September 2020||Genre: Death metal||Label: Metal Blade Records It seems like a crows age since the last album from Stockholm death metallers, Lik. However, they had an EP out only last year, an album the year before that, and even a split in…

Dragon Fire: Heilung, Skálmöld, and more – 20||09||20 With their second live album emerging over the horizon, Icelandic legends, Skálmöld, have released the third video for its promotion. Árás is one of the first tracks the band ever wrote. It harks right back to their debut record. The full album,…