Author Andrew Doherty
Koldbrann, as many people know, is Norwegian for gangrene, and not, as was suggested to me, the name of a breakfast cereal. You will gather from the name if you don’t know the band already that extreme black metal is… Continue Reading →
Cassette releases come across as ultra-cult, but there is normally a more practical reason for the use of this media, namely small numbers can be put out at affordable cost. This album is accessible on bandcamp by the way so… Continue Reading →
Hot on the heels of this band’s EP “IEI” comes this album. That EP hit us like a blunt sword, indulging in a vibrant form of black metal not unlike Windir, while plunging along the way into atmospheric melancholy. No… Continue Reading →
Black Lava is an experienced band with affiliations to many other bands, among them Vipassi and Million Dead Birds Laughing. Translated into genre, that broadly means instrumental progressive metal and technical death metal. Signs are that this second album from… Continue Reading →
In 2020, I reviewed a split with three outstanding windswept and atmospheric pieces from Vuur & Zijde. Such, I guess, was the maturity of it that I had the mistaken idea that thought they’d released more than that. They hadn’t,… Continue Reading →
Being a progressive metal band, and one which draws references to Opeth, Born of Osiris and Veil of Maya amongst others, it was my hope that the anticipated musical range could be brought together to make the sonic story a… Continue Reading →
Claiming that Akhlys are “the globe’s premier channelers of abyssal nightmare” seems a bit strong but I get the idea. The band’s fourth album release promises “psychological horror, orchestrated bludgeon and eerie foreboding on a harrowing journey into pandemonic majesty”…. Continue Reading →
If at first you don’t succeed, then try, try again …. this is the case here where German metalcore band restarted the process of composing this album. That would have been a hard thing to do, as sitting in judgement… Continue Reading →
I hesitate to use the word “cult” as there so many cult bands from Norway, especially in the field of black metal, but Limbonic Art is a band, or rather a one person project, to be respected. I remember Devilish… Continue Reading →
The appeal of this album went up for me when I read the promise of something dark and vicious and of a more “violent atmosphere” than its predecessor “Livre Troisième” (2021). The work of Les Chants du Hasard goes under… Continue Reading →
I first became acquainted with this band almost 25 years ago courtesy of a song called “Tat Twam Asi”, which was on a sampler or something. I remember it being really interesting, reflecting the nu-metal trend of the time while… Continue Reading →
I bought Cadaverous Condition’s 2001 album “The Lesser Travelled Seas” after they impressed me live. It’s a good album with its grainy death metal and folksy moments, so it got another deserved listen before I got going with this one…. Continue Reading →