Author Phil Pountney
Wow, where do I start on this one. So it was sold to me as a creative outlet, beyond a conventional approach, something truly unique, expressive, whilst fusing together instruments such as the harp, accordion, guitar and natural voice. Intrigued??… Continue Reading →
Audn are comparable to a toddler amongst the Scandinavian black metal family, being spawned back in 2010, they are now unleashing their third opus onto the world, and to those of us who aren’t overly familiar with the bands native… Continue Reading →
‘Apocrypha’ opens with a smack to the face and a stripped back single key keyboard riff and then the band launches into the parade. This may not be Fear Factory, but it is loaded with similarities to Burton C Bells… Continue Reading →
There is a Gloomy, eerie and ominous start to ‘Dealing With Demons’ before Dez kicks in with a raspy raucous scream and then it all kicks up a notch, I won’t dissect the album track by track as the majority… Continue Reading →
‘Sel De Pierre’ may only be constructed of six tracks, but they clock in at an impressive thirty-eight minutes, mainly thanks to the epic marathon esque make up of two of its standout tracks ‘Onde’ and ‘In Humus’. Vous Autres… Continue Reading →
The trolls have returned, and this time, after a 7 year hiatus, they have come back with an absolute beast of an offering. ‘Vredesvävd’ is ten tracks of pure unadulterated blackened extreme folk metal. ‘Vredesvävd’ opens with ‘Väktaren’, a beautiful… Continue Reading →
Hræ is a one-man Icelandic wrecking machine and its creator, I, has launched an apocalyptic tirade onto the black metal landscape with his premier opus ‘Þar Sem Skepnur Reika’, a monumental complex beast of a release. The album has a… Continue Reading →
With the current drought of festivals and gigs around the globe, the European Metal Festival Alliance is a joint venture between many of the most loved festivals across Europe, one which will give us a glimmer of hope in this… Continue Reading →
With many of us struggling with the current live music famine at the moment, due to obvious reasons, we get a slight glimmer of relief with Schmier et al launching their latest live opus, ‘Born To Thrash’, and it is… Continue Reading →
The Black metal world is under a Polish onslaught at the moment with elite heavy hitters such as Behemoth, Batushka and MGLA all bringing their own brands of technical, precise, malevolent, and mechanical brilliance to the party. So, when I… Continue Reading →
A one-man brutal juggernaut is one of the latest additions to the blackened death metal underworld, and the Swiss mastermind, Beliath, has exploded onto the landscape with his technically astute first born, ‘The impalement’. Weighing in at just 7 tracks,… Continue Reading →
30 years in the making and the hugely anticipated ‘Requiem’ is unleashed. ‘Requiem’ was started by the legendary Celtic Frost and finalised into the package that sits before us today by the new generation of Tom G Warrior and his… Continue Reading →