Author Pete Woods
Described as the kings of Dutch black metal Salacious Gods have hardly been lording it over their realm having gone pretty much AWOL since last album ‘Piene’ way back in 2005. Although material for this album was written back in… Continue Reading →
The hills are alive with the sound of blastbeats! All quiet in the picturesque Linz, Upper Austria has been shattered by this lot who have been actively making a racket since around the beginning of the century. This is their… Continue Reading →
With a name like Dismal Aura one may well anticipate a band playing atmospheric doom or DSBM but that’s not exactly what we get here. This trio from Ottawa are a politicised musical weapon tackling subject matter such as colonialism,… Continue Reading →
Here we have a freshly hatched group from Finland with a bit of an apparent chicken fetish! Not sure exactly what that is about but on the strength of the four tracks on offer here they deserve a bit of… Continue Reading →
Mankind is committed to a cyclic process, making the same mistakes over and over again. This is one of the themes of this album and you simply know that it is going to be an angry affair from one glance… Continue Reading →
I still fondly remember those early ‘Imrama’ shows put on by The Devil’s Church in London when Primordial, fresh off the ferry from Ireland, were just creating a stir in the underground. Was it really almost 30 years ago their… Continue Reading →
With 3 solid albums and support slots with the likes of Tool, Ministry and Rammstein, L.A. industrialists 3TEETH like many were slowed down by the great plague. Without that who knows, they could be headlining bigger stadiums themselves but had… Continue Reading →
This new extreme entity has a mission statement declaring their intent to “bring Black Metal back to its ideological and musical roots.” There is not that much info about those behind the oddly named band but apparently they helped shape… Continue Reading →
Bish, bash, bosh, blasphemy! That’s the short review and if you are looking for anything in the way of significant changes in the sacrilegious craft of this long serving USBM act you are not going to find them here. Historically… Continue Reading →
Earlier this year we got to grips with Argenthorns album ‘The Ravening’ via Avantgarde music and its symphonic black metal took us off into a dark fantasy world and created a real impact. Now Finnish musician Lord Vrăjitor, also of… Continue Reading →
Whilst Hollywood are not calling yet, one can only wonder about a skewed biographical film about the musical anti-hero at the helm of Shining. “We Need To Talk About Kvarforth” is an intriguing idea about the debauched misanthrope who has… Continue Reading →
With their last two sermons ‘Frontschwein’ and ‘Viktoria’ focusing on war it’s probably a good time for Swedish death squad Marduk to return with a different theme after a five-year gap between Studio albums. Fear not, destruction is still rampant… Continue Reading →