Author Gizmo
I first came across these gloomy bastards from France with the charmingly titled This Is Not Supposed To Be Positive, and the their last album five years back Banilieue Triste. Oddly I was reminded and reacquainted with that album very… Continue Reading →
A debut release from this (I think) duo and it’s a concept album mixing the idea of F.W. Murnau, director of classic 1922 film Nosferatu, going to Hollywood and getting mixed up with actual vampires in 1928 (which I guess… Continue Reading →
Ever had the feeling you’re on to a hiding to nothing with trying to review an album? I was so taken with the last album by Finnish black metal/dungeon synth project Druadan Forest (the domain of V-Khaoz) that I bought… Continue Reading →
Hardly a new name to me, these Australian monsters having been around since about 2004, but the first time I’ve actually tangled with them. Opening with the charming, fly buzzing intro to ‘Death To Pigs’ the album squeals and winds… Continue Reading →
This here is the debut album from the anonymous entity that is the Serbian CPMT, apparently pronounced SMRT and which translates as Death in most Slavic languages. Lesson over. With a cover that is very much the continuation of their… Continue Reading →
Getting this CD gave be a huge injection of nostalgia. No not because of the primitive art on the cover or the music, but because the top right hand corner is cut off. In my youth we used to haunt… Continue Reading →
An unassuming cover, but perfectly in keeping with the name of this French one man project. Matthieu Ducheine, the man himself, apparently did a symphonic black metal album Obscura Symphonia twenty years ago and has filled in the years with… Continue Reading →
International death metal outfit (UK, Germany, Netherlands) have released two previous full lengths of horror based metal but this here short sharp EP I guess is a happy little Halloween film tie in which I got to a little late…. Continue Reading →
Crust punk from Aðalbjörn Tryggvason of Solstafir and more guests than you can shake a stick at? Oh ok go on then, I’m game. The cover though seems to be trying a little too hard; an 80s pastiche with regulation… Continue Reading →
Yep apparently it’s a U not a V. Fooled me so out go my kvlt crvdentials…. Lovely packaging for the debut EP by this French solo project of atmospheric black metal. A half obscured figure struggles through a raging blizzard,… Continue Reading →
A new name to me, but this German gang had a debut album out in 2019 and this five track EP is a follow up. It was described as thrash/groove metal. So of course it isn’t. Opener, the title song,… Continue Reading →
Well Ave Noctum were invited to review this by some weird toad worshipping cult. So, for some reason I ended up with it. Ribbit. Go figure. So, a two track twenty odd minute bit of toad worship huh? No, I… Continue Reading →