Author Doogz
Plying their trade consistently since 2010 with a prolific run of albums and EPs, Ævangelist have long experimented with the boundaries of what constitutes death metal. Indeed, a quick glance at the list of record labels releasing their compositions provides… Continue Reading →
The journey of Ulcerate has been a fascinating one. The trio from New Zealand formed at the turn of the millennium, and can boast a consistent line-up since 2008s sophomore album “Everything Is Fire”. This stability has enabled the incremental… Continue Reading →
Svalbard hark from the west-country of England, having formed in 2011. A spate of demos and split releases from 2012 to 2014 led to two albums in 2015 and 2018, each release representing a progression of both the band’s sound… Continue Reading →
The question on everyone’s lips… does the world really need another Mayhem live album? Well.. perhaps. The glut of nostalgic Mayhem live releases in recent years have almost exclusively documented recordings from 1990, the notable (yet equally nostalgic) exception being… Continue Reading →
Blut Aus Nord are a progressive black metal troupe from the Normandy region of France. It began life in 1993 as a solo project of mainstay Vindsval, it has evolved over the decades to incorporate industrial and avantgarde elements. This… Continue Reading →
“Atmospheric”, “reflective”, “epic”… some of the superlatives that have been used to describe the music of Fen over the years. “Savage”, on the other hand… not so much. Until now. Fen established a foothold in the London live scene 2006… Continue Reading →
For the layman, Liturgy have been around since 2009, having released four previous albums of their own brand of “transcendental black metal”. Critique of the band varies from “aggressive and radical” (Pitchfork) to “chin-stroking dilettantes” (The Guardian). The press release… Continue Reading →
May 1993. Two young upstart Norwegian black metal bands share the limelight on a split release from Candlelight Records. Both subsequently follow very different musical ideologies and career paths, but grow to be equally influential and universally revered. Jumping forward… Continue Reading →
Drudkh’s eleventh album is released against the backdrop of their homeland fighting for independence from the renewed imperialistic urges of Mother Russia, a situation which the Western world clearly empathises with. Regardless, as with my Necrom earlier in the year… Continue Reading →
Our esteemed Devy has been rather self-indulgent of late. Whilst last years “The Puzzle/Snuggles” duo explored cinematic noise-scapes, 2019s “Empath” was a crazy progressive pinball through everything in his repertoire including the kitchen sink. Sandwiched between these musical oddities during… Continue Reading →
In this modern world of short attention spans where any Tom, Dick and Harry can sit in their bedrooms and spit out album after album, Kardashev have been quietly plodding away in Arizona USA for around a decade, their sole… Continue Reading →
The years since their last album (2017s “Anticult”) haven’t been kind to Decapitated. False rape charges were brought against the band members whilst touring the USA in late 2017, COVID-19 interrupted their European tour with Beyond Creation in March 2020,… Continue Reading →