Author Gizmo
So, we get part two of Dis Pater’s epic trilogy, this time weighing in at around one hundred minutes of music. And yes I have listened to this over and over, more than usual in fact. Such is life during… Continue Reading →
If a lot of traditional Norwegian black metal is a mass of thorny bushes growing from the rich Norwegian loam, becoming tangled up and like a single mass, Mork are the ones who stand apart: Superficially the same but get… Continue Reading →
A reviewer of my acquaintance, currently stricken with a dose of Covid-19, noted he really pitied the first band who send him a sub-par offering to review. The combination of lockdown, isolation and illness affects our spirit in different ways… Continue Reading →
There’s a title to conjure with. A hint of Burzum history, a glance back at old worlds or a comment on where the world of music is now? All of them? Anyway, we have three new songs from this excellent… Continue Reading →
So, with that name, that label, that title and a cover of a heavily armed goat demon seemingly using Jesus’ head as a codpiece, anyone want to hazard a guess at what we’re seemingly here? Yep neo-folk… Just kidding. This… Continue Reading →
Pretty certain this is the first album from Ecuador I’ve reviewed, and raw black metal is the calling these three guys have. And yes I do mean calling; you don’t play this kind of music for fame, let alone fortune…. Continue Reading →
And with a slow, ominous drumbeat, the lapping of restless waves and choral, almost Nordic voices Nre of And Now The Owls Are Smiling introduces his latest conjuring of isolation. As soon as the riff breaks loose on ‘Rejection’ you… Continue Reading →
Love me a bit of Crystal Viper… These days always straddling the line between heavy metal and power metal, the Polish riff machine are at their very worst dependable. Which frankly at the moment we need more of as this… Continue Reading →
Ok before I start, Old Growth should be a great name for a nature obsessed black metal band but my stupid brain keeps conjuring images of hairy warts, bunions and manky blebs on delicate parts. Sigh….I hate my brain…. Ok,… Continue Reading →
Listening to Akhyls is like clenching your teeth in the face of a howling ice storm. I mean it. After the rumbling, oddly unsettling intro ‘Somniloquy’ simply crashes over you, pulling you down into the storm of some truly harrowing… Continue Reading →
Cosmic black metal proclaims the PR, and they sure ain’t wrong. We get four long passages, a little under forty minutes, of a deep journey into dark space under the piloting of Lennart Janssen. First track ‘Zinloos’ begins with unsettling,… Continue Reading →
Here’s a thing. Fungi based ambient? Well this EP is the debut from a project by Conchuir O’Drona of From The Bogs Of Aughiska, now located outside of the Brexshit zone to the relative calm of Sweden. Not being up… Continue Reading →