Author Gizmo
Balls Of Steel. A night of metal with the angle towards… the full on heavy metal side of things. Brought to us by Big Dan and Little Dan, the duo of excellent YouTube Channel Heavy Metal Entertainment, and the indefatigable… Continue Reading →
A Welsh one person project with a Welsh name (something like ‘a witch’ google tells me) and an album title in Latin which is ‘What I Want To See Below’ kind of had me nicely off balance if I’m honest…. Continue Reading →
Possibly an unfamiliar name, but new British/Lithuanian black metal band Miško Boba were formed by Leviathan (the guy behind Written In Torment, all instruments in the studio but holding drumming duties live) and Kanopa, vocals and very particularly lyrics, as… Continue Reading →
There have been moments in my cultural life that forever stand out as milestones; things that at the time changed the landscape of my interests and those of most of my friends. The 1984 debut novel by the brilliant David… Continue Reading →
Ok I knew nothing about them and frankly the bands the members are in are not, what you might call, haunts of mine. But the name and the vague descriptions kind of intrigued me so here we are. Spooky gothy… Continue Reading →
The PR muttered something about Danish band Strychnos being bound to no god, master or genre which amusingly is binding itself to a cliché by now. But nowt to do with band or album. So… not having heard their 2022… Continue Reading →
Well Göden basically is the collaboration of ‘Spacewinds’ (a certain Stephen Flam of legendary slow-mo deathsters Winter) with ‘Nyxta’ (Vas Kallas of indusrial/goth duo Hanzel Und Gretyl) and ex-Winter session keyboardist Tony Pinnisi. And if you’re guessing ‘so this is… Continue Reading →
Riot (the V has something to do with the number of vocalists or something) have been around since before most of you were born. 1975. First release a couple of years later. I’m old and even I only took note… Continue Reading →
Six years down the line from their debut album Rituals, Sweden’s Crawl return with a new ‘un. Their Metal Archives page amusingly to me lists genre as ‘death metal’ and themes as ‘death’. So there you have it really. Nutshell…. Continue Reading →
So if you’ve never heard of them and find not even an entry on Metal Archives and wonder what Season Of mist are doing releasing it… well, yes, it’s that thing which in black metal circles shall never be called… Continue Reading →
Saturday We start the second day with coffee and observing the hangovers for a while before we are welcomed in by the gentle beginning of day two in the wonderful hands of Warhorns favourite Yylva. This is the last live… Continue Reading →
Once more unto the towers, dear friends, once more! Or fill our stomachs up with decent beer! Yes it’s time to pay obeisance to the Elder Gods and enter the wonderful world of Warhorns once more. Always a pleasure. A… Continue Reading →