Author Pete Woods
I was first desecrated by Vanhelga about a year ago courtesy of their second full length album Höst. What really appealed to me was that their sound helped make the void created by the death of Jonas Bergqvist from Lifelover… Continue Reading →
With a massive 200 words to write for this review and camera at home I found myself somewhat at a loose end thinking that there was going to be so much more to say about tonight’s show upstairs at the… Continue Reading →
Charcoal colours of ash have trees virtually hidden amidst the cold colours on the artwork of this CD and it is quite expected that musically it will contain doom and gloom aplenty to accompany the fog enshrouded setting. On first… Continue Reading →
Not just content with Darkthrone and Sarke ole Ted best known to his followers as Nocturno Culto has decided he needs more in the way of true heavy metal thunder in his life. To do so he has decided to… Continue Reading →
London has gone mad with shows this week. Just after Leeds was hit by Damnation the Rotting Christ tour followed down the M1 and also Paradise Lost were joined by Katatonia. Swallow The Sun, Windhand, Jex Thoth and even Skid… Continue Reading →
Listening to a GWAR album can be a little like going swimming without any water. There is definitely something missing from the experience, unless perhaps you get a load of mates round straight from the butchers shop to throw blood,… Continue Reading →
You can tell how successful a festival is by the amount of people there and even as we enter the labyrinth Leeds University to negotiate the four stages that the event has been expanded to the first band on our… Continue Reading →
Bands who are jumping on the coat tails of the gloomier sounds of the eighties seem to be in vogue at the moment. There are a lot of people who never lived through the times getting in a froth about… Continue Reading →
I caught the Fenriz approved Irish band Zom recently at Live Evil Festival and was pretty much blown away by their on stage presence and sound. They conjured up a fearsome brand of occult death metal that reminded a lot… Continue Reading →
Hang on to your hats and britches and whatever the hell else you have not got battened down against this upcoming shitstorm. It’s a wild ride and a half and even if you survive it without melting down you may… Continue Reading →
There is certainly something elite about this line-up as it contains members of So Much For Nothing, Svarttjern and Urgehal in its ranks. It has been some time since last 2008 album ‘Bestial Supremacy’ although a couple of EP’s have… Continue Reading →
There is something rather grimy about the name Ash And Coal and typing it into a search engine I keep getting directed towards images of thick tarry gloop spreading over areas of land and coating it in a filth where… Continue Reading →