Author Gizmo
Late last year the excellent Green Lung released their monument to the folklore and magic of Albion, This Heathen Land. A landmark to be sure and one that drew in listeners not usually obsessed with the stoner/doom end of things…. Continue Reading →
Sometimes I wonder why I make things so hard for myself as a reviewer, other times I know. It’s the latter case here, really. Paysage D’Hiver are a name that has been on my peripheral vision for three or four… Continue Reading →
There are, for a start, two things I find interesting about bizarre Finnish industrial metal band Turmion Kätilöt (basically currently MC Raaka Pee, RunQ, DQ, Shag-U, Bobby Undertaker and Master Bates…). The first is that I came across them 20… Continue Reading →
This one came out of left field I must say. The PR kind of angled it towards dungeon synth/neo folk/medieval but not knowing the project or artiste I wondered what happened to Hands Of Necromancy 1 ‘cos I didn’t read… Continue Reading →
First of all take a moment to look at that cover by Misanthropic Art. You back? Doesn’t that just scream heavy metal in a wonderful roots way? Damn, one of those visceral covers that makes you hope that the music… Continue Reading →
Syv means seven according to Google. So as appears to be tradition when bands reach their seventh album Mork’s seventh is called seven. But let’s be honest it is something to celebrate. The other thing about the entity that is… Continue Reading →
One of the best thing about reviewing is it genuinely keeps reminding you of how little you know. I mean case in point, Obnoxious Youth. Yet another name I had not crossed paths with before so on a quick glance… Continue Reading →
Temple Of Dread are a German death metal band, around since about 2017 and have been steadily releasing music since 2019 making this their fifth full length. And of course that means they are a completely new name to me…. Continue Reading →
My final bit of cassette cacophony for the moment is this from Polish/Finnish based raw black metal band Throat. It comprises their debut 2020 demo ‘New Flesh Nectar’ and this year’s EP Blood Exaltation. So to be honest I thought… Continue Reading →
Next up in my collection of cassettes from Godz Ov War is this from Intolerance. As you might guess there are a few bands sporting this particular sobriquet, so to clarify this is the death metal band from Spain and… Continue Reading →
This album by Hungarian band Os actually came out in 2022 originally but this cassette version was kindly sent to us by Godz Ov War with a couple of other more recent ones; reviews to follow. So as resident tape… Continue Reading →
Eighth album. Eight. Seventeen, eighteen years. First album for four though; a statistic that is oh so prevalent. The plague years. Some descended into denial and conspiracies during the laying of that strata, some stood face to face with the… Continue Reading →