Author Pete Woods
Don’t you just hate it when you start to get into a band who have a fairly long career path and they promptly split up. That is exactly what happened to me with Finns …And Oceans when I got caught… Continue Reading →
It might be time to slow down but Burial Choir have actually worked quite quickly following up last album ‘The Eucharist Of Martyrs’ in less than a year. It arrives here at the perfect time, it’s cold and a period… Continue Reading →
Having unleashed a parasitic ‘Blood Worm’ on humanity five years ago, Kommandant scuttled back to their nuclear bunker under the Chicagoan ruins hoping for swift eradication of mankind. In the meantime, they have perfected their bodies via bio-engineering into lethal… Continue Reading →
Last album ‘Phase IV’ from this Viennese based project really seemed to speak to me with its mixture of post rock and industrial rooted numbers. They were all of a lengthy running time and sprawled like soundscapes over wide vistas…. Continue Reading →
Chances are you have not heard of Høstsol who have only just emerged out the Autumn Sun but the players within this new project are another matter. Some will no doubt be tagging this with the supergroup descriptor but I… Continue Reading →
This is certainly an EP of two halves and a rather strange one too. Necropolissebeht are a collaboration between German and Canadian members Hekla (Hadopelagyal), Axaazaroth (Nuclearhammer) and errr Ryan. Now Ryan may not have wanted to play the gateway… Continue Reading →
Nasty blackened filth here from the “corpse” that is Poland’s Trup. I was rather expecting this though having encountered the Warsaw based trio on previous EP Szmula and lockdown induced album Ke. Having come out of that to relative freedom… Continue Reading →
We are now and not for the first time dipping into that strange affliction known as sleep paralysis. It’s terrifying to anyone who has ever experienced it and not surprising that in less enlightened times the blame was cast on… Continue Reading →
Leafing through the PR info when this album hit my inbox, I was thinking that I recognised the band name and sure enough suddenly saw the words stating that Ave Noctum described last album Spirituality as “a vaccine to life’s… Continue Reading →
It came as big surprise when Roman Saenko decided to resurrect Hate Forest 15 years after they seemingly combusted with ‘Sorrow’. Released on Xmas Day 2020 ‘Hour Of The Centaur’ came out of nowhere, seething with rage, spite and vengeance… Continue Reading →
Finalising another fantastic year for French label Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions, this album made it through the snow and postal strikes just in time to ensure my days at the end of it are pale ones. Naturally it has… Continue Reading →
I think it’s fair to say that some artists are out there and “difficult” when it comes to reviewing and even listening to unless you are in a certain state of derangement. Dødsengel, the duo of Kark along with drummer… Continue Reading →