Author Andrew Doherty
Technical power thrash sounds a decent combination. The final ingredient is the way it’s mixed. The truth is that I’m struggling to find anything good to say about this album. The second track “Dark Design” sets the scene after an… Continue Reading →
I don’t know what Vattnet Viskar is supposed to mean if anything but I do know where they’re from. This trio of musicians from the USA plunge us into dark atmospheres from the outset of this album, the follow-up to… Continue Reading →
“Ritualistic Death Metal Necromancy” is what they call this. That’s Metal of Death rather then the genre, I’d say. This thoroughly blackened slab from Australia is as black as it gets – hissing prophets in blackened corridors of hopelessness and… Continue Reading →
It’s not every day that you hear a hardcore gang chant with skirling bagpipes in the background. That’s before a techno remix of an earlier track “Riding a Redhead” which brings this album to an end. If such eccentricity and… Continue Reading →
Croatian band Gothaurs Wrath are accredited as a black metal band. Having listened to their second full album “War for Heaven”, I’d suggest that they’ve moved on considerably from this description. Words I would use to describe this album are… Continue Reading →
Through dark and tortured black metal, this four track ep deals with gnosis, sin and chaos. Well, this is France. What a lovely picture the duo that is Rotten Liver paint. Actually it’s all rather jolly as the first track… Continue Reading →
A spell-binding introduction gives us a flavour of where we’re going. In fact we go to several different places. Mind Structure are from Ukraine and draw from USA and Scandinavia for their brand of highly technical melodic metal with hardcore… Continue Reading →
“No bullshit metal and hard rock served with a slice of punkrock energy” is the way this band from Sweden is depicted. There’s a strong sense of past meeting present about “The Poet and the Parrot”. At first I thought… Continue Reading →
Kaos Krew sounds to me like a bunch of New York guys with reversed baseball caps playing hardcore but this is nothing like that. “Corruption Rules This World” is hard rock with a nice cynical twist as you may gather… Continue Reading →
This is the eighth album by End of Green, so it’s not surprising that this album is presented with great clarity. Their production is geared to interesting rock songs with gloomy themes and gothic touches. They don’t need to rely… Continue Reading →
The cover image is of a wet city night. The scene of isolation could be the one we hear in this sextet of post rock pieces from this Finnish band. Actually, I didn’t think that “Prologue” was as gloomy as… Continue Reading →
Bang your head! Conan’s First Date from Hungary come from the rampant thrashing death metal camp. This is their first album after a couple of ep’s. Starting with “The Man, The Monster”, there’s a feel of Pantera or one of… Continue Reading →