Ulf Backstrøm

From The Dephts: Without neglecting melody and the overall harmony…..

From The Dephts - Moments

Blut: Each song is a tarot…..

Blut – The Justice

Awash: Potential to become a radio hit worldwide……

Awash - Shadow Or Sun

Shrapnel Storm: The world turned upside down because someone ate a bat in China!

Shrapnel Storm - Riding Against Dawn

Selenseas: The road with sand, pearls, and tears…..

Selenseas – The Outer Limit

Proletarian: A blend of light and heavy…..

Proletarian - Dreaming Through Dystopia

Horisont: With monumental, anthemic stadium-sized rock choruses……

Horisont –Sudden Death

Nothern Crown: With epic struggle between good and evil…..

Nothern Crown – In A Pallid Shadow

Magni: Huge fan of Norse mythology…..

Magni - Magni

Ayreon: With most cinematic and outrageous album……

Ayreon - Transitus

Draghkar: From sunny southern California…..

Draghkar - At The Crossroads Of Infinity

Doggerland: With channeling bleak futurosurrealism……

Doggerland - Out Of Here

Artem Bemba: With stories from most mysterious personalities in modern history…..

Artem Bemba - The Traveler

From Hell: With dark and sinister horror concept…..

From Helle –Rats And Ravens

Buried Realm: Josh Dummer`s musical playground…..

Buried Realm - Embodiment Of The Divine

Alberto Rigoni: Puts music to his Thoughts In Odd Times

Alberto Rigoni – Odd Times

Winter Nights: Bone-Crushing Melodic Death Metal….

Winter Nights – Winter Nights

Skyfall: With orchestral and symphonic arrangements…..

Skyfall – Sleeping Forest

Diatheke: Prog metal for the glory of God…..

Diatheke - Magnify

Xaemora: EP was released digitally during Pandemic quarantine……

Xaemora - At Dusk Of Existence

Writhing: Hunt for excellence in extremity……

Writhing - Eternalised In Rot

The Dead Centuries: With more hook oriented, catchy songs…..

The Dead Centuries - Pop A Soda

Ted Kirkpatrick, Tim Ripper Owens, Bruno Sa: On the 50 year anniversary of…….

Ted Kirkpatrick, Tim Ripper Owens, Bruno Sa - Gethsemane

Fleshdriver: Truly grabs my attention with both artwork and content…..

Fleshdriver - Leech

Ahtoh Skald: Give the listener the opportunity to enter a fantasy world…..

Ahtoh – Yggdrasil

Sven Gali: With very long-awaited follow up…..

Sven Gali -3

Sable: He was feeling “jaded”

Sable - Jade

Mantric: With some real superb tracks…..

Mantric – False Negative

Lucynine: Explores the darkest and most negative sides of love……

Lucynine – Amor Venenat

Gösta Berlings Saga: With a compositional tradition of modifying recorded sounds to create new sound identities…..

Gösta Berlings Saga – Konkret Musik

Brudini: Armed with guts, a piano, guitars, analogue synths…..

Brudini – From Darkness

The Tangent: Celebrating the golden age of prog…..

The Tangent - Auto Reconnaissance

Kick Me Out: Gives a new meaning to modern punk…..

Kick Me Out - No Puppets

Ether Coven: Beauty that is totally arresting in all its heaviness…..

Ether Coven - Everything Is Temporary Except Suffering

Bull Elephant: Part two in the Bull Elephant trilogy mythos…..

Apotropaico: Heavy metal from Ibiza…..

Apotropaico - Under Control

2nd Outbreak: A wave of optimism in this rather particular period…..

2nd Outbreak – No Way Back

Sin Savage: Two more singles to come…..

Sin Savage - Blinded By Light

Sin Savage: Two more singles to come…..

Sin Savage - Blinde By Lies

Moonthoth: Oscillates around atmospheric black metal…..

Moonthoth - Zmora