Author Gizmo
The worst thing about being a reviewer is not disliking an album; we all have differing tastes and opinions after all. No, it’s when you struggle to find the words to describe music that has zero impact on you. You… Continue Reading →
It’s got to the point that I actually have zero expectations for a band who claim to be black metal but eschew any image. For every Wolves In The Throne Room there are a dozen post rock bands stealing the… Continue Reading →
My first time in Dublin, and so my first time in the nice venue that is The Pint. I’m doing the tourist thing so I’m kind of late wandering in past the impressive gig posters in the front window and… Continue Reading →
Malasangre: take a foundation of extreme doom like, say, Khanate, layer thickly with sludge and sprinkle a little black metal and almost inaudible ominous keyboards on top. Let it seethe for half and hour or so and serve. Nigella it… Continue Reading →
From the outside looking in, the neofolk scene can seem painfully austere and humourless not to mention the odd troupe here and there flirting with dodgy ideology, unfairly tarnishing the rest. Remind you of any other genre? Being so different… Continue Reading →
Stangala are French on a Russian label and singing in Breton (which is kind of related to Welsh and other celtic languages). They are also patently barking and seem to enjoy nothing more than dressing up as monks and doing… Continue Reading →
Solitude are doing a pretty good job of trying to get the still mostly unknown Russian extreme metal scene out into the world, so it was nice when this and another album dropped in my lap. The difficult thing here… Continue Reading →
Artist: Pact Title: The Dragon Lineage Of Satan Type: Album Label: Moribund I know nothing about Pact. Even Moribund’s site only has a holding page. The band have no website and there was no bio with the album. All I… Continue Reading →
Artist: Black Messiah Title: The Final Journey Type: Album Label: AFM Germany’s Black Messiah have been going since the late nineties although the bulk of their five releases have been since 2005. They sing often but not exclusively in their… Continue Reading →
Artist: Xandria Title: Neverworld’s End Type: Album Label: Napalm Wow. Now this is not what I was expecting when I offered to take something from the growing Goth Frock pile. Wow. I mean rightly or wrongly I’d always considered Xandria… Continue Reading →
I was rather taken with the aggressive and confident return to the fray that the Viking Metal comrades Einherjer created recently with ‘Norron’ and so when I got the chance to ask them a little about the whys and the… Continue Reading →