Author Gizmo
Apparently they used to be called Wytch Hazel. Or Witch Hazel. But even though I’m a bit hazy I think there is at least one other so here we are with SpellBook. From York. No not the UK home of… Continue Reading →
I first found myself adrift on The Infernal Sea after a chance meeting years back at Warhorns Festival where these plague wielders and their stoic Agents of Satan dragged me down under the waves with their compelling undertow. Stagecraft aside,… Continue Reading →
When I read the…er…concept behind this lot of filthy Canadian bikers trapped in the seventies I was kinda intrigued. Visions of the musical soundtrack to some lost drive-in biker fodder about a drug crisis in Spurcity certainly appealed and their… Continue Reading →
Beginning straight off with a curiously Nile meets Melechesh bit of blackened death metal with ‘Broken’, this Russian band weave some North African and Middle Eastern melody through their somewhat technical death attack. Have to say in minutes you are… Continue Reading →
The second release by David Mako away from his doom metal bands and into his doom folk guise. Now as I sit here writing the sun is out, its warm and…. Yeah, not exactly sunny music this. So, pull the… Continue Reading →
If you missed my last review of them, Garden Of Eyes is one of at least four projects that young UK one man metal machine Nattskog is producing. This is his very much old school, doom riddled filthy death metal… Continue Reading →
We do get the odd bit of strangeness into the Ave Noctum presidium now and than. Which is always welcomed by one or other of the scribes. A bit of avant-garde noodling, some abstract noise, some Satanic jazz salsa; whatever… Continue Reading →
We don’t often get singles to review here, much less on CD, so I guess it’s only right to give it a blast. Oh, it’s listed as an EP but with just two tracks and a combined length of 6:18… Continue Reading →
No idea if it’s just lockdown psychosis but I find myself wondering on lots of inanities these days; like how many albums there are with a variation on the philosophical standpoint of ‘no mercy’ with or without profanity. Yep, stir… Continue Reading →
I really rather liked the last album by these NZ shadows, ‘Malediction’ so was pleased to get this as a review, if not a little daunted. Well they are not exactly an easy band and this little musical piece weighs… Continue Reading →
Perdition II huh? Well I missed Perdition I so can’t give you a comparison as to how the pieces fit together, so this is simply based on what I have. It’s that odd genre of music again; you know, the… Continue Reading →
I’m easily confused. I picked this up as I needed a break, and was expecting a bit of angry hardcore influenced punk (well they mentioned The Exploited) and this angry piece of plastic arrived. With Ridgeback and Swellbellys luminaries it… Continue Reading →