Author Gizmo
For an album that was promoted to me as depressive/atmospheric black/death metal, Hope Dies First, the lead out track from Austrian one man band Nonexistence is a quiet beautiful, bleak and compelling slice of Funeral Doom with the kind of… Continue Reading →
What? Another release from Corsair already?! Nah, not to worry, our much feted US rockers haven’t dashed one off; no this is a re-release of their previous second self-released EP, half an hour of music to let us know that… Continue Reading →
Orchid know how to make an entrance: The riff and the whole song of the opening, title track The Mouths Of Madness is just brain rattling perfection. It just bypasses all that tedious ‘getting to know you’ stuff and lodges… Continue Reading →
At last, another full length from Kentucky’s lead weight blackened doom sludge mystery Highgate. It’s been three years since their Shrines To The Warhead album with only a compilation of older stuff and a split with Ghast in between (which… Continue Reading →
‘ The Roots Of This Earth Within Your Blood,’ the remarkable second album from Irish mist weavers From The Bogs Of Aughiska is a dark, frightening and compelling ambient work and one that had coils within coils. So given the… Continue Reading →
I’ve grown to hate the term ‘industrial’. Being able to remember the heyday of real industrial when Throbbing Gristle, Chrome and (early) Cabaret Voltaire were the avante-garde, then the dirty mutant metal infected siblings of Ministry, Godflesh or Front Line… Continue Reading →
Not had anything from the lovely corner of the pit that is Hell’s Headbangers for a little while so this was welcomed into my abode. This is done by J, one man black metal arsenal from Australia and ex-everyone down… Continue Reading →
I’d just had a lousy cold and then an upset stomach so when I was passed a split that thee Ed. described as “Cough and Wind” I was understandably unenthusiastic about reliving my experiences. Thankfully though it is just a… Continue Reading →
China. Not the place you immediately think of for heavy metal, let alone Black Metal. Unless of course you have already made the acquaintance of marvelous Chinese Mongolian pagan metal horde Tengger Cavalry. In which case, why not? History and… Continue Reading →
Bit of a tall order this: An Orthodox double CD of odds n sods…er….’rareties, covers and demos’ when I only just made their acquaintance with Baal. Still, Baal was a fine piece of doomed, sludgy work so I hoped this… Continue Reading →
With his brother Wulfstan, Athelstan is one half of the terminally underrated English “Anglo-Saxon metal” band Forefather who quietly ply their trade drawing exclusively on the Anglo Saxon period of England’s history. At first a solo album from a duo… Continue Reading →
On the second track here, Cavalry In Thousands, Tengger Cavalry make the traditional Mongolian ‘horse head’ violin they use sound stunningly like a horse whinnying. Your argument, as the Internet says, is invalid. I will assume that you haven’t heard… Continue Reading →