Author Andrew Doherty
Looking at the biography of this Austrian black metal band, it seems they have taken an admirable path: three albums since 2017 and intensive touring to parade their wares. Theotoxin don’t beat about the bush. Violence erupts through the pitch-black… Continue Reading →
The master of mastering Jens Bogren, who has been involved with just about anybody who’s anybody is the melodic metal world and more, must have been on overtime for this substantial offering from the US melodic and death/doom metal band… Continue Reading →
This five piece from Sweden “play rock music”, was what I read on one of the sources I used to get some background. Whilst I agree that this unilluminating statement can be countered by “you’ll find out if you listen… Continue Reading →
This is a completely unknown band to me, I confess, and being told that the duo that makes up Hymn were in Buckaduzz, Tombstones and more recently Sâver doesn’t help because I’ve never heard of them. Hymn are from Norway,… Continue Reading →
Promoted as “the perfect visionary soundtrack for … a brutal, mutant universe”, this album from US artist Nick Stanger promises an experimental and extreme metal experience. Extreme it is. Manic, screaming deathly outputs are matched with vocal roars and a… Continue Reading →
Attack, attack … Poland’s Uerberos are back with their second album to follow “Tormented by Faith” (2017). The world is spoilt by the abundance of high-quality death metal from Polish bands. The intrigue lies in whether Uerberos manage to stand… Continue Reading →
Five substantial tracks of blackened death metal is the offer here from Belarus’s Ljosazabojstwa. I know the band by virtue of their previous EP’s Sychodžańnie (2016) and Staražytnaje licha (2017), both of which are impressively grim and black. This latest… Continue Reading →
A man from Venezuela and later Chile who goes by the name of N is behind this. The accompanying blurb suggests something of different angles of black metal. Best to listen to it really, and then we’ll know. As intros… Continue Reading →
The name of the band rather gives away the fact that they’re German. Gruppe Planet is an electronically-inclined instrumental band. I soon became hypnotised by the calm and dreamy ambience of the opening title track. There’s a kind of post… Continue Reading →
“The music of death, rats, bitterness and vanity” were the first words I read when researching this band from Poland. I understand they do a bit of coldwave to go with their mix of death metal and progressive elements. A… Continue Reading →
This is the debut EP from Italian band Oneiric Celephaïs. It is quite an eclectic piece. Ostensibly “The Obscure Sybil” is a work of dingy death metal. In the background there is a riff akin to an Ephel Duath world… Continue Reading →
Dark things are going on in the pleasant Dutch city of Utrecht. In the last couple of years I have discovered and been inspired by the atmospheric music of Laster and Vuur & Zijde. So when I saw a connection… Continue Reading →