Author Pete Woods
With its eye catching photo cover of Brenda Lee Spencer, arrested after a particularly bad Monday in 1979 which saw her culling classmates at a high-school shooting, Formalist set us up for a particularly harrowing debut album ‘No One Will… Continue Reading →
Running since 2014 Incineration Festival is London’s highly anticipated, yearly most extreme all day event. Taking in four venues a stone’s throw from each other, people have the choice of no less than 28 bands to pick between at The… Continue Reading →
Meaning “Spirits” (among other interpretations) in native Finnish Henget may well be a new name but with them comes a wealth of experience. Primarily the project of Saturnian Mist vocalist King Aleijster de Satan ‘Beyond North Star’ is essentially a… Continue Reading →
Grab yer pick and shovel it’s time to dig deep here and see what we dredge up. Coming from Brazil the ammonia like scent of adipocere is strong and we need not cast any inspiration to nefarious tomb raider Ed… Continue Reading →
Along with live drummer and keyboard player 2nd Face is primarily the project of German “sound magician” Vincent Uhlig and he has been solidifying the successor album to 2017 release ‘Nemesis’ over the last 5-years. Not having heard the project… Continue Reading →
It’s always sad losing a writer due to the increasing pressure of balancing a life with the time it takes to cover stuff. It was a particular blow when George our undisputed king of the slams had to hang up… Continue Reading →
I do like getting odd things in the post with no accompanying explanation about them and at first I thought I had been sent a film here as it is presented in a DVD style case. On further exploration I… Continue Reading →
When Austere last laid down like old ashes back in 2009 many may have thought the winds had carried them off to scatter over the scorched Australian hinterlands forevermore. Yet despite calling it a day after that album, Mitchell ‘Desolate’… Continue Reading →
Established in 2014 and tried and tested by industry professionals with a long track record of running events, the annual Incineration Festival is a key date in the UK extreme metal scene. Taking place in Camden London on Sat 13th… Continue Reading →
It can’t be easy for any band practicing dark rites in deepest Russia right now and apart from a look to check they are not preaching warmongering politics we have to give them a pass without any form of prejudice…. Continue Reading →
A new band, debut album straight out on Century Media. When you realise that Predatory Void are part of that artistic Belgian collective The Church Of Ra, it all makes sense. Borne out of pandemic downtime Lennart Bossu of Amenra… Continue Reading →
Setting out on longboats to Lindisfarne back in 2012 it would appear these Italians somehow thought they had Viking heritage when they started out with their debut EP. Since then they have steered their way through Midgard, Ragnarok, wars and… Continue Reading →