Author Gizmo
In the absence of being able to tour off the back of their spectacular comeback album Forever Black, Cirith Ungol instead have taken a little trip back to their archives and recorded four old and oldish tracks that never appeared… Continue Reading →
I’ve been waiting a long time for this. Four, five years since I first experience their battering ram sound live at Warhorns. Others have been waiting longer, since 1998 in fact. But this is finally it after all that has… Continue Reading →
Seems to have been a while since I had some Quebecois Metal Noire to review and I really do have a soft spot for it so enter Oriflamme with their debut full length. I looked up their name and apparently… Continue Reading →
Just so you know, simply having miserable lyrics does not make you DSBM. Despite the tag on the group’s Facebook, it is an anomaly here. Right, this one person project is from Taiwan it seems, home of the mighty Chthonic… Continue Reading →
Well, I appear to have missed seventeen years of history with this Austrian lot, and also haven’t a clue how to pronounce their name being stupidly monolingual as I am (Earwig Frost???). But promised speed metal punk with all the… Continue Reading →
One of the drawbacks of being a reviewer and general metal music geek is time. There are always going to be bands who have been on your list but you never fought your way through to them. On the plus… Continue Reading →
Ok, right. Why am I here? No not in this reality, here with this review. Well controversial director Lucio Fulci’s 1981 shocker and alleged video nasty has a special place in my heart. Weird, fucked up and gory it was… Continue Reading →
Jack (played by director Karl Holt) is a pretty sad man-child but a harmless type. He is also an undeniably talented toy designer who hits a really hard time. His parents with whom he lived in a large unaffordable house… Continue Reading →
Another artist on the Aesthetic Death roster who are new to me. Well, that’s kind of how it goes for this idiosyncratic label, and all power to them as they release some real head-scratching, soul punching, brain tingling albums. And… Continue Reading →
When is a three way split album not a three way split album? When two of the bands are the same one gent is when. This is an entirely instrumental album from, dare I say it, two masters of enthralling… Continue Reading →
Despite having a previous EP and an album behind them, Mur have definitely ducked under my radar. This though was touted as a step forward in their sound and offering music ‘ahead of its time’. It also mentioned synthwave added… Continue Reading →
This is the bit in the review where your scribe tells you what they know about the band: They are Australian. They play melodic/atmospheric black metal. Well there we are. Three tracks. A little over twenty-three minutes. Nice art. ‘Azure;… Continue Reading →