Author Jamie
This French four-piece has been in existence for well over a decade, releasing three evolving takes on the progressive death genre along the way. Making ever greater steps forward, ‘Back to Where You’ve Never Been’ is an album which their… Continue Reading →
For those of you in the know, this is of course a reissue of Whitechapel’s debut, originally released in 2007. Not merely content with a standard reissue, Metal Blade have deemed it necessary to remaster and visually overhaul the album…. Continue Reading →
Ad Patres is the brainchild of Alsvid, a man who many black metal experts are sure to recognise from such bands as Seth, Enthroned and <CODE>. Flying in the face of expectation, this new creation is a concertedly death metal… Continue Reading →
Formed from the initial demise of Winterwolf in 2001, Deathchain contains members from all manner of Finnish bands, including the mighty Demilich. ‘Ritual Death Metal’ is the band’s sixth effort, and is apparently the first contemporary death metal to be… Continue Reading →
You might be forgiven for thinking that the warm southern Californian climate is an unlikely breeding ground for grindcore. Well, think again. Nails, from this very region and formed in 2007, are grindcore with a capital ‘G’. Having unleashed their… Continue Reading →
When our editor offered me this for review I expected a fairly straight-forward case. Having read the name Tribulation in the context of new old-school death metal a few years back, surely a blast of stinking death was going to… Continue Reading →
Before the gig tonight – one of Asphyx’s select 2013 tour dates – I had the rare brainwave to collect up a bunch of CD inlays to try getting them signed. This isn’t the kind of thing I’ve done for… Continue Reading →
Having missed these Australian extremists playing with Obituary a few months back, I felt compelled to right that wrong by getting to grips with their new album. ‘Flesh is Heir’ is their third full-length in the space of nine years… Continue Reading →
It doesn’t seem all that long ago that I reviewed Six Feet Under’s ‘Undead’, the album which signaled an overhaul in the band’s ranks and their tried-and-trusted formula. In fact, checking the dates, it was well under a year ago…. Continue Reading →
Sometimes an album cover can tell you everything you need to know about a band’s music. In the case of Finland’s Krypts, this is most certainly the case. A dark, imposing valley set in relief by swathes of ominous red… Continue Reading →
The title to this band’s second album is probably the strangest I have been confronted with in my time at Ave Noctum. Stranger still, however, is the history of the album. Originally released in 2010 as a limited cassette edition,… Continue Reading →
Supuration are a band who have inhabited the French death metal scene for quite some time. In fact, they started out way back in 1989 as Esticoxe before deciding to change monicker, and eventually releasing their debut in 1993. One… Continue Reading →