Author Pete Woods
Sometimes the simple names are the best but no, a closer look unveils that Blot is actually Sacrifice in olde heathen Scandinavian. Considering this and the fact that the cover of this Norwegian outfit’s debut has a long-ship on it… Continue Reading →
You have to feel sorry for the zombie of late. They never actually chose to be reanimated and walk the earth endlessly in search of sustenance with bits of flesh sloughing off as they rot. The poor sods have been… Continue Reading →
Those of us without a giddy disposition have possibly marvelled at a recent music video of Shining performing live at Trolltunga – The Devils Tongue which juts precariously off a mountain over a massive glaciated valley near Bergen Norway. It’s… Continue Reading →
Hooded Glaswegian denizens Lunar Mantra strike as an esoteric and mysterious outfit. They contain members of the equally unknown Obscure Lupine Quietus, Gate Of The Northern Star and Nolti Nan Gana Nan Nolta and play a mixture of seething black… Continue Reading →
Your what is a what? As the Italians got more and more into their Giallo films the titles got ever the more inventive, almost a mystery in themselves and this one is no exception. Many of them were made all… Continue Reading →
I received Prime Sinister’s debut album back in 2008 in a nice DVD case presentation box to boot. The French band impressed with a mix of styles that bordered on an eclectic range from doom, stoner, industrial, groove metal and… Continue Reading →
One of my most anticipated albums of the year and there’s been much in the way of promotion leading up to this, in fact you could hardly have failed to realise that it was on the way if you are… Continue Reading →
It’s not a quiet Sunday night in as far as those with discerning musical taste in London are concerned. Apart from this there is Live Evil Festival, Opeth and The Sisters Of Mercy all playing this evening and Camden is… Continue Reading →
Remember the time of the double bill at the cinema? Well Arrow no doubt do and have released this in a two film package along with Sergio Martino’s Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key… Continue Reading →
The crew behind this lot are all well known musicians in their own right coming from such diverse acts as Minsk, Eyehategod, Buried At Sea, Twilight, Yakuza, Neurosis and Nachtmystium, to name but a few. Putting them together in an… Continue Reading →
This album should have had me running to the hills screaming and trying to distance myself as far away from it as possible. Melted Space are a project that were originally formed by Pierre Le Pape of Wormfood and essentially… Continue Reading →
Black metal de France and this has more than a whiff of the eau de war about it as illustrated on the grim grey artwork and the opening sounds of gunfire and marching boots. Neptrecus debut album ‘L’Aube De Declin’… Continue Reading →