Author Pete Woods
Music for a ritual, or a ritual set to music? Either of these descriptions could be viable as far as the strange world of Haiku Funeral are concerned and they are far from the easiest outfit to get to grips… Continue Reading →
After a decade or so behind the scenes producing music for other artists Jim Davies returned to the fold himself with 2020 release Headwars. I reviewed that elsewhere and described it as “fun, footloose and fancy free’ and it was… Continue Reading →
Perhaps this is a bit of an “escape” for Parisian Joseph Apsarah. He has shrugged off past nom de plumes and similarly dispensed with past collaborators he has worked with under the Cepheide banner. This project was a trio when… Continue Reading →
This arrived like a hammer-bolt from the blue, tail end of the year, no fucks given about getting on any of those pesky album of year lists and at a time when nobody except kvlt labels and black metal edge-lords… Continue Reading →
If you are looking for a cross-section of metallic sounds from Portugal, Raging Plant seem to be a good stop off point for discovering what is about on the scene. Junkbreed are presenting their debut album here and contain members… Continue Reading →
It’s “all wrong” or “all evil” as far as TodoMal, a duo from Castilla-La Mancha in Spain are concerned. Living in a region famed for Don Quixote “a placid and depressing desolate wasteland” and one described as being in ‘uninhabited… Continue Reading →
The name suggests a smugglers hideaway and indeed has literary ties to Treasure Island and Devon but it is actually Portugal we are heading to and a debut album that we are told should appeal to fans of bands such… Continue Reading →
The body of the devil is praised in all its orgiastic pleasures and delights from these sinister Frenchmen. Active since 2008 and with 3 albums prior to this, the band are dedicated practitioners of the dark arts. The strangely entitled… Continue Reading →
Pete Woods (Editor) – Top 20 2021 the new normal? If its bastard predecessor was summed up by the word “despair” this one would have been “uncertainty” and we are far from back to what can be considered normal with… Continue Reading →
Culminating a consistent year for Belgium label Immortal Frost Productions they turn to homegrown talent from West Flanders in the form of debut album by Darkest Mind. This trio clearly wear their hearts on their sleeves and worship at the… Continue Reading →
It was 2015 since we last heard from these malevolent French destructors. Since they released Xeno Kaos back in 2015 they have marked their 20th anniversary and had a couple of line-up shuffles. Firstly after a few years in the… Continue Reading →
Poetic in more ways than one. Lyrically here we take to the work of Paul Verlaine, decadent artisan and lover of Arthur Rimbaud. This is the muse followed into the Fin de Siecle period of 19th Century Paris by Belgian… Continue Reading →