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Author Gizmo

Being old and creaky (I was a teenager during the NWOBHM) I have no time for people who ' excuse ' their love of metal by saying it's so cheesy, or so ironic. I've taken shit from mainstream types for the music I love for 35 years or so. Stand up and be proud of it with no concessions to what might be hip; the best music and the best fans in the world are within the metal family.

Night Shall Drape Us – Lunatic Choir (Season Of Mist)

So if you’ve never heard of them and find not even an entry on Metal Archives and wonder what Season Of mist are doing releasing it… well, yes, it’s that thing which in black metal circles shall never be called… Continue Reading →

Warhorns Late Winterfest – Drax Social Club, North Yorkshire 13/04/24

Saturday We start the second day with coffee and observing the hangovers for a while before we are welcomed in by the gentle beginning of day two in the wonderful hands of Warhorns favourite Yylva. This is the last live… Continue Reading →

Warhorns Late Winterfest – Drax Social Club, North Yorkshire 12/04/24

Once more unto the towers, dear friends, once more! Or fill our stomachs up with decent beer! Yes it’s time to pay obeisance to the Elder Gods and enter the wonderful world of Warhorns once more. Always a pleasure. A… Continue Reading →

Witch Vomit – Funeral Sanctum (20 Buck Spin)

A mate was recently moaning that judging by a list on CDs on Ebay they ‘appeared to have run out of metal band names’ and were just using gibberish. He was faintly amused when I said I had some Witch… Continue Reading →

Iskalde Morket – Deleted Scenes From The Pandemic Ward (S/R)

If you recognise the most deliberate nod in the title of this album (to The Axis Of Perdition for the uninitiated) then not only will you have a vague idea for the turmoil, chaos and noise within but will also… Continue Reading →

Riitasointu – Pedon Likkie (Naturmacht)

This is the debut full length by Finnish black/folk metal duo Riitasointu after a demo and a couple of singles so new voices to listen to. Apparently the name means ‘dissonance’ which is an interesting name for a folk influenced… Continue Reading →

Rituals Of The Dead Hand – The Wretched And The Vile (Immortal Frost Productions)

Clearly I’ve been sleeping on ROTDH as despite three albums in six years this is my introduction to this member of The Nox Entity collective. A quick scan of the members indicates pretty much what I would very respectfully call… Continue Reading →

Cantique Lépreux – Le Bannissment (Eisenwald)

Not acquainted with this particular facet of the Metal Noir Quebecois scene, but with a member of Forteresse and another live member in their ranks, and a label like Eisenwald behind them and a theme of being driven from society… Continue Reading →

Dödsrit – Nocturnal Will (Wolves Of Hades)

I admit that despite knowing the name I hadn’t really ever engaged with Dödsrit before this but with a PR sheet tossing ‘black metal hiking punks’ at me it kinda sets up expectations so when opener ‘Irjala’ comes at me… Continue Reading →

Hadit – Metaphysical Engines Approaching The Event Horizon (I, Voidhanger)

I just picked this off the lists, not knowing the name, because of ‘cosmic’ ‘Lovecraft’ and ‘black/death’ plonked in the description if I’m honest. No previous knowledge of these Italians, but being let down too many times by other death… Continue Reading →

Gost – Prophecy (Metal Blade)

To say I was rather taken with my introduction to one-man project Gost with Possessor is putting it mildly. And the follow up Malediction was equally impressive; James Lollar had managed to craft a unique being from the cloth of… Continue Reading →

Byzantium – A Seamless Robe (Repose Records)

Well here’s something I’ve never had before; a cassette! Well Ok, I get around half a dozen a month for myself due to an addiction to raw black metal and dungeon synth but it’s the first review cassette I’ve had…. Continue Reading →

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