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Author Gizmo

Being old and creaky (I was a teenager during the NWOBHM) I have no time for people who ' excuse ' their love of metal by saying it's so cheesy, or so ironic. I've taken shit from mainstream types for the music I love for 35 years or so. Stand up and be proud of it with no concessions to what might be hip; the best music and the best fans in the world are within the metal family.

Lustmord – Much Unseen Is Also Here (Pelagic Records)

Ah. A precious night arrives as here we have the absolute legendary entity that is Lustmord arriving to prove that only true vision and genius can do dark ambient so well. Brian Williams, the Welsh maestro behind this name, returns… Continue Reading →

Heretic – Filthy Hymns For Sleazy Demons (Van Records)

Heretic. One of those names that has so many entries in Metal Archives you get dizzy, but as this lot of Dutch degenerates have been trailing through the sleazy much since the late nineties they have a far better shout… Continue Reading →

Hauntologist – Hollow (No Solace)

Debut album time, but side project time too. This time by Darkside (Mgla) and The Fall (Mgla live, Owls Woods Graves) and guess what? I’m practically alone amongst my black metal aficionados by not being a Mgla fan, for a… Continue Reading →

Black Eucharist – Inn Of The Vaticide (Godz Ov War)

Bit late turning this in, but it was actually released mid 2023 it seems but this is the CD version so, hey, we’re here. Debut album, but rising out of (via a simply name change Black Ejaculate whose ‘Cum soaked… Continue Reading →

Gizmo’s 2023 Ep’s, Demos and Dungeons

  I spent a great deal of 2023 falling deeper and deeper into distros, fledgling projects and delightfully reacquainting myself with the dizzying world that is dungeon synth. As EPs and demos are excluded from Ave Noctum’s end of year… Continue Reading →

Demoncy – Diabolica Blasphemiae (Hell’s Headbangers)

After eight years smouldering, 2023 saw a re-stoking the infernal fires from US thirty plus year veterans of the black metal world Demoncy. They released an album this year and now this EP sneaks in at the end. So we… Continue Reading →

Dwelling Below – Self Titled (Transcending Obscurity)

Dwelling Below. A band so obscure that they don’t have an entry on Metal Archives. . However the drummer/vocalist Jared Moran appears to currently be in every flipping death metal band in the US (though this one not listed…) and… Continue Reading →

Helfró – Tálgröf (Season Of Mist)

I’ve just been listening to an Iblis Manifestations podcast (Shayan from Trivax’s podcast, shout out for him) where Shayan and Cult Never Dies boss Dayal Patterson and the particular segment concerning what is black metal and what the attitude of… Continue Reading →

Cardinal’s Folly – Live By The Sword (Soulseller Records)

I first heard this Finnish lot back around 2005 when they were still called The Coven but for reasons of life and stuff unrelated it’s been a good ten years or so since I last dropped in on them. I… Continue Reading →

High Spirits – Safe On The Other Side (High Roller Records)

It’s been over a dozen years since I first heard the high energy hard rock, borderline metal of this Chicago band with 2011’s Another Night and in that time they’ve become a go to band when I’m low with their… Continue Reading →

Aeon Winds – Night Sky Illuminations (Avantgarde Music)

This is Slovakian black metal band Aeon Winds third (I think) full length in a little over a decade but, as is my wont skulking down in the depths of lo-fi cassette world of late, my first acquaintance. But it… Continue Reading →

Receiver – Whispers Of Lore (Gates Of Hell)

This band from Cyprus have apparently been around since 2011 according to the PR blurb but 2017 according to Metal archives but this is indeed their debut. The PR promises epic, NWOBHM with folk and when the jaunty guitar run… Continue Reading →

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