Author Andrew Doherty
In My Embrace sounds like the name of a doom band to me, but in fact it’s a two man black metal project from Sweden. This seven track EP is quite a mixed bag. They’re all dark, of course, but… Continue Reading →
This EP is the follow up to a self-titled album in 2011, but looking into it there’s a bit of history with these Italians, who seem to have forsaken their black metal roots and moved on to something more akin… Continue Reading →
The greeting is a burst of modern-sound technical progressive djent. In fact it’s everything that’s been in vogue in recent times. I hadn’t read any of the script so I just took in this riot of progressive colour, which reminded… Continue Reading →
Manes undoubtedly come from the Norwegian planet, inhabited by Atrox, Green Carnation, Audrey Horne and others, where life is seen from an odd and oblique angle. My only previous exposure to this band, who have now released four albums and… Continue Reading →
Dying Vision is a group of musicians from Poland. Now there are many excellent musicians from Poland where there seems to be a blackened death factory producing such people, but two members of this band were of particular interest. First… Continue Reading →
It’s a case of following the formula: hardcore aggression, punk-like speed, the gang choruses, anthemic and pointed songs. I like it. There’s social commentary, rage and the distinct sense of being pissed off but that’s New York Hardcore. No time’s… Continue Reading →
It’s a bit of a cop out on my part maybe, but the description that accompanies this eleven track journey captures the experience. “Dream Awakening” is presented as a “diverse and imaginative music landscape with contrasting emotions musical symbolism, blending… Continue Reading →
This album was composed and released in 2007, and here it is again. The calm ambience which opens up “Stories from an Old Empire” and the two acoustic cover tracks of Sawlegen’s own songs at the end give the album… Continue Reading →
This, Genius Ultor’s second album, was recorded in a mouldy pre-war house, reeking of “complete humiliation and degradation”. The band then added their contribution of “necrophobic atmosphere and paranoid unease”. This seems to be natural territory for Polish blackened death… Continue Reading →
The title of this album suggested that there was sophisticated intrigue or it was too clever for its own good. I missed the band’s first work, “The Perpetual Paradox”, so the only clues were going to be in the listening…. Continue Reading →
Here’s the seventh album from this particular German school of creeping black death. “The musical expression of emotional abysses” is the way they describe it. “Venereal Dawn” centres on the theme of living light but in a way that spawns… Continue Reading →
You don’t need much time for this two-track blast from Zeit. Five minutes will do it. Zeit are from Italy and arose from the ashes of As The Sun who released a very good and lively album called “Event Horizon”… Continue Reading →