Author Andrew Doherty
I’m not sure why it’s necessary for the title of this album, which means ash or Ash, has to be in lower and upper case but I’m sure there must be a reason. The album has an arty sleeve, representing… Continue Reading →
Anything could happen here. Metallic hardcore, late 90s metal and death metal influences form the stylistic backbone of this album. Reading the blurb, it seems to claim to be everything, and above all bigger and better than the Australians’ 2021… Continue Reading →
Described as shapeshifting, atmospheric noise rock, “The Silver Snake Unfolds” is Wailin Storms’s second album following their 2020 debut “Rattle”. Do I suspect that Wailin Storms have been listening to Black Sabbath? Well it seemed like it as I listened… Continue Reading →
This is Imperial Triumphant’s fifth album and I confess that till now I didn’t know any of them. Looking at their cv, I was surprised as a varied approach to metal with a later tendency to an avant-garde technical black… Continue Reading →
I’m a bit of a sucker for New York area death metal. Following in the footsteps of Internal Bleeding and Pig Destroyer come Vomit Forth. Promising layers, the band has released a couple of demos, a couple of EP’s and… Continue Reading →
All roads lead to black metal. Quite apart from the packaging, I knew this already, having reviewed this Indonesian band’s 2020 EP “Thy Infernal”. A raw, old school sound greets us. The guitar riff is solitary and uncompromising. Slowing down… Continue Reading →
I’m not sure Portland, Oregon, where Forsaken Entity come from, experiences ice but it’s clear from all directions that this album sets out to be a grandiose affair, and kingdoms of ice fit that narrative. Symphonic black metal calls up… Continue Reading →
A “musical journey through deep valleys, high hills and dark forests” is what’s promised. Well, Horizon Ignited are from Finland. Claimed to be the new pretenders in the melodic death metal scene, this is their second album release. The problem… Continue Reading →
This is the second album from this French band, who quote stylistic elements of King Diamond, In Solitude, Dissection and Tribulation in their work. I didn’t know the band and wasn’t expecting the expansive prog-power metal that I heard on… Continue Reading →
Khold are one of these Norwegian black metal bands who knowingly or not advanced the genre in the 00s. Continuing the tradition of utterly raw and desolate black metal, elements of persistent melody supplemented the bleakness and moved away from… Continue Reading →
There’s a bit of Italy and a bit of the Netherlands in this band but either way it comes down to searing black metal. This album is the follow up to “I-Serpent” which was released in 2016. Frenzied explosions, grunts,… Continue Reading →
Four bands from different UK cities came here tonight for our enjoyment and hopefully theirs. Now here’s a random thought: why is it that so many modern metal bands based in the UK have names with three words? We have… Continue Reading →