Author Gizmo
Ah another day when your very ‘eavy, very ‘umble scribe turns round to find everyone else has walked forward while I’ve walked sideways. Hmm. This six tracker from relatively new but productive Berlin band Praise The Plague is sent PR… Continue Reading →
I kinda grabbed this as WWI based black metal with a cover reminiscent of some old VoiVod album appealed as did the name Canon Fever. Debut too from a one-man band from Bavaria. Blackened death always kinda worries me for… Continue Reading →
Another day, another new band to me despite being around for a decade. They play, apparently, punked up black n roll, hail from Bern and sing in Barndutsch which is a Swiss/German dialect. This is also a rerecording of their… Continue Reading →
I’m kvlt as fvk me. Got my Lamp Of Murmuur longsleeve, my Black Cilice vinyl and Askog demo tape set and Wynter Myst cassette. Actually that’s all true, apart from the kvlt bit. I’m kvlt as fvk all. But I… Continue Reading →
Arrgh. Genuinely hate being in this position, but it is what it is. Mannveira are Icelandic, a country and a music scene I have huge love and respect for. Frankly I want to live there but, hey, never will as… Continue Reading →
“Deep here isn’t it?” says your scribe doggy paddling out of his depth. Well, it always feels like that when someone asks for my opinion on Mayhem that involves anything after De Mysteriis… Really? Yeah actually. Kinda…listened but never really… Continue Reading →
Heathen Deity. With their debut album True English Black Metal out at last and the genuinely fantastic reviews rolling in, we were keen to get some words from this uncompromising band. So, a tentative message, a little fear and gratefully… Continue Reading →
Not entirely sure how it happened what with my vociferous denunciation of all things bollocks pirate and metal, but I seem to have become Ave Noctum’s official foreign correspondent from the shore of Tortuga. I’ve reviewed two out of three… Continue Reading →
Well here’s a to-do. I mean we have our resident deathshead here somewhere in the Ave Noctum sewers so why am I dragged out of my fetid hamster dungeon for this? Well I am. So there. So firstly, though I… Continue Reading →
Anticipation is a strange beast, especially in the case of the UK’s own tribe of migrating Palaeolithic people Wyrdstaef. With a mere handful of shows they have by force of presence and performance managed to create the kind of interest… Continue Reading →
This album by French black metal band Gorgon is, it seems, their follow up to their 2019 comeback album. I’m not so much embarrassed I missed that, but that the name rings no bells with me at all. On the… Continue Reading →
Sometimes a band gets the crappy end of the reviewing stick just because of timing. I mean can you imagine trying to review a black metal album when you really, really can’t face much music at all. Hence the lateness… Continue Reading →