Author Pete Woods
Culminating a musical gaze cast through the lens of Ingmar Bergman’s Faith Trilogy, the odd, eccentric and relatively obscure Spider God take his 1963 film The Silence as the narrative viewpoint here. We first joined this chronicle in the 2nd… Continue Reading →
An album of rare beauty during troubled times here. Personally, I expected nothing less and hungrily grabbed ‘The Buried Storm’ hoping it would offer something of peace, tranquillity and calm and on 1st spin marvelled at its gorgeous, somewhat dark… Continue Reading →
This German quintet have been around for a while releasing 4 albums prior to this, the last one ‘Nightmares Reign’ saw them on Century Media back in 2018. We also caught the band the year before supporting Mantar which seems… Continue Reading →
I am guessing that this lot are fairly well known back in Germany where they hail from, certainly compared to us in the UK. Seems to be a bit of a buzz about their return after they split up in… Continue Reading →
Heaven, I’m in heaven and although early, by the end of the night we will be cheek to cheek. First up there are couple of German support bands playing also this evening. Starved of music it’s good for the audience… Continue Reading →
Looks like I am the fourth of our writers to tackle this group and the other three releases were met with varying results on their hard to categorise and ambient driven blackness. This gives the impression that the unwieldly named… Continue Reading →
As Killing Joke stated whilst looking for ‘Sanity’ “So let the sunrise light up the distant shores and we’ll remember last days of Rome again.”. It seems to be these days of Emperor Constantine The Great that Polish band MRome… Continue Reading →
The flock is gathered once more, penned in waiting for the wolves to pounce and render flesh. The follow up to debut album ‘Deus qui non mentitur’, sees the French artists BÂ’A reflecting on good and evil and interpreting the… Continue Reading →
Well, this is fairly “nice” stuff from the seaside city of Portland, Maine. It brings visions of long dusty trails through the woods to a picturesque deserted beach. There might be a waterfall encountered along the way as that is… Continue Reading →
This is the fourth album by the Danish quartet, which was formed just over a decade ago, with their debut appearing to have been completely in Danish and from what I’m reading a black metal album at that. While ‘Goddess’… Continue Reading →
Everything about this from the band name, to the cover art and track titles screams out Brutal Death Metal but that is not quite what we get here. This UK act led by Kaz “Stench”B (guitars/bass) & Serpent (Vocals) along… Continue Reading →
It’s often well worth trawling through the vast array of promo material that is thrown at us and ignoring the bigger bands for those that are new underdogs just starting out. Treasure can be found and as far as Danish… Continue Reading →