https://www.forgotten-scroll.net Heavy metal reviews and news Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:39:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-logo-1-32x32.jpg https://www.forgotten-scroll.net 32 32 https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/metal-reviews/moving-target/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:26:41 +0000 https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/?post_type=review&p=12159 After 13 long years, DRAGONSCLAW are back! The trio of Giles Lavery (WARLORD, Jack Starr, Alcatrazz) on vocals, Ben Thomas on guitars and Aaron Thomas on bass, returns, this time joined by Giles’ WARLORD bandmates, Jimmy Waldo (also of Alcatrazz) on keyboards and the mighty Mark Zonder on drums. One of the standout bands to […]]]> https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/metal-reviews/chasing-the-dragon/ Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:19:50 +0000 https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/?post_type=review&p=12147 What could possibly go wrong with an ironclad, rocket-fueled golden dragon storming our planet? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Because this is the very dragon we all chase, we who crave pure, unfiltered, relentless USPM—and finally, HELMS DEEP have caught it and brought it to us! This Florida-based band unleashed their stunning debut, “Treacherous Ways”, in 2023—one of […]]]> https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/metal-reviews/winds-of-time-single/ Sat, 14 Jun 2025 16:11:59 +0000 https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/?post_type=review&p=12136 How big a newly formed heavy metal band can get in just six years of existence? How big a heavy metal band can get with just 3 years of discographic presence? How big a heavy metal band can get with just 1 EP, 1 LP (full-length) and one Live album? I don’t know how to […]]]> https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/metal-reviews/a-land-long-gone/ Sun, 08 Jun 2025 16:01:27 +0000 https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/?post_type=review&p=12132 First of all, let’s point out that in the eight years since the release of PROFESSOR EMERITUS’ debut, “Take Me to the Gallows” (No Remorse, 2017), the band’s lineup has changed almost completely. The great Lee Smith (guitars, keyboards) remains, but he has now officially handed over bass duties to Jose Salazar, while Tyler Antram […]]]> https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/metal-reviews/a2z%c2%b2/ Sun, 08 Jun 2025 11:35:16 +0000 https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/?post_type=review&p=12127 It’s been a while since A-Z (Zonder/Alder) 2022 and their well crafted debut album and even though excellent from every aspect still that “something” was hanging in the air for the imagination. But times are a changing and a new line- up leaves out from the premises keyboardist Vivien Lalu and guitar player Joop Wolters […]]]> https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/metal-reviews/the-warriors-of-the-king/ Sat, 07 Jun 2025 13:00:23 +0000 https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/?post_type=review&p=12121 LIVIN’ EVIL from France, is a heavy metal band that started their journey back in the early ‘90s. They released a couple of demos in 1993 (‘’The Tree of Evil’’) and in 1995 (‘’Illusory Dreams’’) before entering a period of hiatus sometime after 1996. However, in 2022, the bassist Jérôme Viel decided to resurrect the […]]]> https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/metal-reviews/heather-hearth/ Sun, 01 Jun 2025 11:30:15 +0000 https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/?post_type=review&p=12112 I have an opinion about Kyle McNeill, and it is this: he’s not trying to revive the so-called good old days by serving some abstract or market-driven retro movement. The man is simply blessed with the essence of the ’70s flowing in his blood, and he expresses it artistically because yes, this is WHO HE […]]]> https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/metal-reviews/rising/ Sat, 31 May 2025 00:34:50 +0000 https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/?post_type=review&p=12106 The traditional heavy metal scene has seen, in the last 10 – 15 years, a blazing resurgence of acts fiercely dedicated to the foundational and fundamental sound of the ‘80s and early ‘90s. I would say that among these ardent revivalists stand SAVAGED, who are hailing from Barcelona, Spain. The Catalonian band, since their formation […]]]> https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/metal-reviews/ii/ Tue, 27 May 2025 07:45:41 +0000 https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/?post_type=review&p=12101 In 1992, two years later after the recording of their first unreleased EP ‘’I’’, PARADOX have moved forward with a notable evolution in the band’s sound. (More about the first EP of 1990 you can read in the review here) With a refined line-up that saw Todd Hamby taking over bass duties, Wade Carpenter on […]]]> https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/metal-reviews/i/ Tue, 27 May 2025 07:14:01 +0000 https://www.forgotten-scroll.net/?post_type=review&p=12097 PARADOX from United States, Charlotte in North Carolina had been a very talented Hard Rock and Heavy Metal band, with immense potential that was founded by the guitarist Mark Crotts and the vocalist Sonny Reynolds and they made their impact in the fruitful – full of young bands local scene in the late ‘80s – […]]]>