Author Phil Pountney
‘Excommunica’ is captivating and mesmerising from the outset, it is layered and complex and demands your full attention to absorb and soak up every beat and percussion strike. The band cite that it has taken them 5 years to build… Continue Reading →
Many bands evolve through their existence and Wormwood are no different. They formed in Sweden in 2014 under the guise of black and roll, they have then tipped their caps to a melodic black metal style before finally settling on… Continue Reading →
Chamber Of Unlight have unleashed their latest opus, ‘Realm Of The Night’, and it is a mesmerising cacophony of grandiose synth, pounding string work, punishing percussion and ravenous vocals, a truly crushing aural attack on your tympanums. From ‘Premium’ to… Continue Reading →
So, for the last eighteen months or so we have had to unite and take on whatever the world has had to throw at us in its own twisted deliverance, and most of us thought there couldn’t possibly be anything… Continue Reading →
Throw yourself head first into the pit and do it with confidence and purpose because that’s what Prayers Of Sanity command of you with this full-on thrash assault, ‘Doctrine Of Misanthropy’. Eight tracks of solid and unrelenting thrash, or more… Continue Reading →
Verging on a black metal super group if you will, Night Crowned are made up of fragments of Aeon, Dark Funeral, Cipher System and Night Rage to echo but a few of the CV’s on show within their realms. Born… Continue Reading →
At The Gates are back. The melodic death behemoths from Gothenburg return with a new full length release and what a beast it is. Its 3 years since ‘To Drink From The Night Itself’ and the Swedish Overlords, are back… Continue Reading →
Cuba doesn’t automatically conjure up images of blasphemous and malevolent black metal but there is a band which has been plying its trade, cultivating and polishing its black arts deep within the black metal purgatory and this Chthonic duo go… Continue Reading →
Wow, just when I thought I had all boundaries covered, heard every conceivable formation of noise to sit within most genres and boundaries of the rock and metal spectrum, a new vehicle comes along. Until the moment I pressed play… Continue Reading →
Finnish Juggernauts Sadistik Forest have delivered another crunching and bruising package in the form of 4 track EP, ‘Obscure Old Remains’, which will maul and batter you from the opening chords of ‘Mandragore’ to the closing echoes of ‘Waters Black’…. Continue Reading →
When a little known EP by the moniker of ‘Malignant Deviation’ fell into my inbox to dissect and critique I relished the opportunity as I was teased with the tag line of blackened death metal, and that is enough to… Continue Reading →
‘Arcanum’ is the second offering from NIHT and they seem to have grown and evolved significantly since their previous sacrifice, ‘Vanum’, four years ago. ‘Arcanum’ is a beast and a battering ram, from the opening bars of ‘Angst’ to the… Continue Reading →