Author Andrew Doherty
It’s thanks to writing reviews that I know about Hegerøth, and I have to say that from what I’ve heard so far, they are incapable of a bad album. This is a black metal band with control over its music,… Continue Reading →
Although the Swedish incarnation of Sarcasm have been around since 1990, the band did not properly get going with album releases until 2016 with “Burial Dimensions”. With a couple of current members being involved with the band since the 1990s,… Continue Reading →
Nine tracks of Alaskan black metal sounds harsh in every way, and this is what Rübezahl bring us here. This is their full album release but they did put out an EP “Tempering of Northern Iron” in 2019. It all… Continue Reading →
Now here’s a thing: a post-rock, ambient doom work which is experimental. Its creators Fere are from Portugal and this is their second album release. The opener “Atlas” doesn’t tear up trees but I’d suggest is all the better for… Continue Reading →
This mysterious work, the second from Adoperta Tenebris, just oozes darkness with its pictures of thick forests at dusk. I noted a track called “Vultures of the Mass Grave”. Before it comes “We Were Giants”. The ambiance is that of… Continue Reading →
Funeral winds suggest a black metal work, here with the added proviso that this album is a retrospective look towards desolate landscapes. The track titles are wistful, shadowy affairs, starting with “Black Lore of the Fens”. Now this sinister piece… Continue Reading →
This album is about loss. Memories, the struggle and maybe the recovery. “Mor” is the second album from the self-proclaimed doom punk band from Germany. It certainly does seem as if John Lydon has joined a heavy metal band. “Watershed”,… Continue Reading →
This band from Australia has been doing its multi metal thing since the early 1990s. This album is their fourth full release. After a harmless opener, it’s down to business with the darkest kind of death metal you could wish… Continue Reading →
Papangu’s debut album sounds in equal part interesting and daunting, if their introduction of it anything to go by: it is “a concept album inspired by ecological escatology and the modernist literature of Norheastern Brazil – a hardy, arid region… Continue Reading →
Bryan Eckermann wasn’t a name that was known to me until this came along. Billed as melodeath / black metal, “Plague Bringers” is listed as being for fans of, amongst others, Arch Enemy, Old Mans Child, Hypocrisy, Death, King Diamond,… Continue Reading →
Ah, Gurthang the sword meaning “the iron of death”. The band behind the reference from Tolkien’s “Silmarillion” is from Poland and this is their seventh album. The intro or prologue as it’s called is sinister and doomy. Things fly in… Continue Reading →
“Millions die in vain”, goes the lyric on “Blinded” off Hypocrisy’s “Into the Abyss” album (2000). This could apply now. The solid sounds signal menace. The deeply invasive metal tones of Peter Tätgren and his Hypocrisy mates kept me going… Continue Reading →