Heath Dweller is another single from Heathen Peace, which will be released on a flexidisk along with another instrumental song. It is also a taster song from the upcoming album. Besides, this is what Christians used to call other people who did not accept their faith in the past. The song features a guest appearance (or rather a great roar) by Henke from the Swedish band Dawn, with whom this collaboration was baked when Cosmic Key Creations released a reissue of their album. While Wouter has more of a deep hoarseness vocal, Henke has more of a yelled/screamed vocal and they complement each other nicely at the end. The song is about three and a half minutes long and it hits you with a great riff from the beginning. The break comes at about 1:41, where there is a solo, but right after it Henke and Wouter came and will knock you out of that break again. Check the song here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp33JCRM81A. If you like harder music with black metal influences and lyrics that relate to the ancient history of Europe, this is exactly for you.

The fourth album of this Brno punk rock band is called Zpověď (Confession), it is again self-published and you will find ten songs on it. Zpověď is probably because singer and guitarist Rorýsek had an accident years ago and took a long time to get back together... you can hear all that right away in the first song. On two songs (Zpověď and Vzpomínej - Remember) Ketty makes a guest appearance as a great complementary female vocalist. Compared to previous albums, I praise the greater use of acoustic guitar and more songs in a slower tempo, for example the almost ballad Vzpomínej, which is about the emptiness after a breakup, or the very first Zpověď, which is truly brilliant thanks to the solo guitar and singalong. The CD contains some great ultra-melodic songs at random, such as the anti-war Prach a Dým (Dust and Smoke) with a great bass solo (which also has a video clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dtDB0BZZZI), Švihák lázeňský (Spa Dandy which tells about Rory's convalescence in baths :)) or Pes (Dog). Other interesting things are Omerta, which is dedicated to American mafiosi, Železnej hotel (Iron Hotel), for friends who are behind the bars (again with a great guitar/bass) or the harder Co se za všim skryvá? (What is hidden behind everything?) with a booming steel-sounding bass. The booklet is nice, with lyrics, thematic photos for them and a photo of the band with greetings on the back. This is simply great, great music and lyrics that are both funny and serious and personal and it is clear that the band has matured like wine/beer/spirits. In addition, there is also a best-off LP that maps the band's work since 2013, which will be reviewed later. You'll definitely be hooked after that.

The VeeBees are an Australian punk rock band that has been playing for about 25 years and has five albums and a whole series of EPs, split EPs and singles. This EP contains two songs, Third in Line for the Throne and Yeah Orright and is limited to 150 copies on silver vinyl. Take Toy Dolls, give them a bit of a rougher sound and more booze and you have roughly the sound of The Vee Bees (which is an Australian beer brand, by the way). Try to check them on YouTube and you will see that they are great bunch of lads who don´t spoil any joke. The first song has a great drive, a super boosted guitar and bass sound and is about how you stand in front of a public toilet and what you don't learn from the walls where great wisdom is written. The second track Yeah Orright is a slower song, both lyrically and musically, in the style of classic rock. Otherwise, the band plays in a standard four-piece line-up. Inside you will find a paper with lyrics, a promo photo of the band, where the singer is sitting on a porcelain throne :) and a beer coaster, a patch and a badge. A great music for letting off steam.

A three-piece band from Holland, where people from LBTS, Razorblade and God Dethroned meet, is preparing a new album at the end of March 2026. This is a taster single, which will be released both digitally (for example on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVYDWeyJEEQ), but will also be released on a limited flexi disc, where there will be one more song besides it, which will not be available on the full album (but we don't know anything about it yet). The song is less than three minutes long and it starts with a really perfect black metal riff that lasts about a minute and a quarter. Then there's a change of rhythm with a perfect guitar solo. This instrumental passage lasts about a minute and then it falls back into that black metal slaughterhouse. Lyrically, the song contains 36 names of Germanic tribes from the dark times of pre-Christian Europe. The first Heathen Peace album was definitely not for everyone, because not everyone likes such hard and heavy stuff. After listening to this single, I can say that the second album will be similar and this taster single will only confirm it. But for me, it's great. I won't rate it yet and I'll wait for the second song, which won't be on the album, and for the whole album.

The split CD of two experienced bands (this is the seventh album for Heroes and the eighth for True Aggression) is released as a CD on OPOS Records. Each band is represented here with six songs, with each band also playing one cover of the other. In the case of Heroes it is Heretics and Barbarians (Ketzer und Barbaren) and in the case of True Agreesion it is Geistiger Terror (originally Andlig Terrorism). In one song from each band there is also a guest singer from the other, so in Heroes Miesl sings in We Fight to Win and in the case of True Aggression it is Johan in We Are Still Here. Heroes have all their songs in English, while TA have them all in German (but in the last We Are Still Here there is a Swedish and English passage). Both bands also play in the same line-up – four members and two guitars. The songs from Heroes are more rock and the singer's voice is higher. There is even an acoustic song Freedom. Lyrically, it's a classic - lying media (Fake Information), illusion of freedom (Freedom), position in society where the family wants you, but you don't (When We Unite), etc... Musically, for me, it's definitely Fake Information, where there are really great solos and the singer shows his range. At first listen, the style of Heroes didn't really suit me, but as I listen to it again and again, I start to like it. TA play faster, harder and it has more punk verve and drive, and right from the first Stolz und Stark they pour it into you (it's not a cover of Ultima Thule) with a great rhythm and guitar, the second track Get Woke is about the phenomenon of today - are you a man, a woman or an animal... who knows? 1000 Volt is about the god of thunder who rages over Europe, Total Egal 2 (with a ska rhythm in the chorus but a nice fast tempo in the verse) is about how we don't care where someone ranks us and what they think of us. In the last thing Johan from Heroes shows again the great range of his voice. The booklet is a classic – lyrics, photos, thank you note. Great.