Daniel Tompkins’ Ruins: prog metal shapeshifter wrings new wonder from his recent past
Tesseract frontman Daniel Tompkins reimagines his last solo album Castles as new record Ruins with brilliant results
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Hjelvik’s Welcome To Hel: ex-Kvelertak singer kneels before the gods of heavy metal
Erlend Hjelvik swaps Kvelertak’s blackened rock’n’roll for full metal racket with his new band’s debut album Welcome To Hel
Insidious Disease’s After Death: extreme metal A-listers’ deathly old school salvo
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