Author Stuart Carroll
Now, who doesn’t appreciate a massive organ? Lychgate certainly do, as theirs takes centre stage for album number 2, ‘An Antidote for the Glass Pill’. While not wanting to sound dismissive and flippant, when a particular instrument plays such a… Continue Reading →
Mention the word Akercocke to most fans of extreme metal, and you’ll see them gaze longingly into the distance, in remembrance of one of the most dynamic death metal bands of recent years. A band that offered brutality, and a… Continue Reading →
Mexico isn’t the first place that you think of when it comes to hateful and nihilistic black metal, but it just might be, after you’ve heard this first full-length album from Precaria. Released last year in limited quantities, ‘Precaria Ex… Continue Reading →
It’s quite clear from this debut self-titled release, that AZAVATAR like things big and bold. Lot’s of upper-case lettering, and all the song titles are just one word. They all start with a K (instead of a C), and have… Continue Reading →
Four albums in, and I haven’t encountered German band Kadavrik before. After a few blasts of ‘Grimm I & II’, I can see why. It’s melodic death metal you see, and I’ve always tended to stay away from overly melodic… Continue Reading →
It’s no secret that the second full-length album, ‘Anhedonia’, from Oxford doom quartet Undersmile, has got me in a bit of a spin. So, in order to delve deeper into it’s world, I fired off some questions to drummer Tom… Continue Reading →
This 2nd full-length release from Las Vegas doom merchants Demon Lung, is based on the cult 1975 horror flick by Juan Moctezuma, ‘Alucarda’. Although the movie has it’s fair share of nudity, blood and screaming, it’s still a bit of… Continue Reading →
‘Shock/Deny’ is the second album release from this Belgian band, and just like the first, ‘Acceptance/Rebuild’, it comprises of just two long tracks of black/doom/sludge/drone/ambient. But this time round, with decidedly better production values. Once again the band deal with… Continue Reading →
After 27 years, it’s album number 14 for Halifax’s finest, Paradise Lost, and what a hell of a journey it’s been so far! Their humble and deathly beginnings gave rise to the pioneering style of “Gothic Metal”, before they went… Continue Reading →
Lucifer is the new band formed by vocalist Johanna Sadonis after the break up of her previous outfit The Oath in 2014. After one single release earlier in the year (the Black Sabbath-fan baiting ‘Anubis’), the first full-length album comes… Continue Reading →
The 4th album from the L.A. based two-man supergroup known as Big Business, consisting of Karp’s Jared Warren, and Coady Willis from resurrected Seattle garage legends The Murder City Devils. ‘Battlefields Forever’ was actually released towards the end of 2013,… Continue Reading →
Are Satyricon the Metallica of black metal? An important and revered set of early works…the odd curve-ball…and an opinion-dividing run of commercial triumphs…But what do you do when you have successfully pushed a genre’s themes to about as far as… Continue Reading →