Author Reverend Darkstanley
Funeral doom, from the outside at least, sometimes feels like it must be on the verge of dying out thanks to a conceptual gene pool that makes UKIP policy look broad minded. As a sub-genre within a sub-genre, its sheer… Continue Reading →
Extreme music has long since transcended the standard four-guys-on-a-stage, dressed to impress and entertain for an hour or two on a Saturday night. Ok, maybe that Rubicon was crossed way back in the 1960s or 1970s – maybe even earlier,… Continue Reading →
I so often come into this stuff with high hopes of a revelatory experience. When I say ‘this stuff’ I’m referring to pretty much everything that you could include in a massive cross section of sound from Joy Division to… Continue Reading →
Even we, the chosen few, the metal fans of dark, extreme material, even we still sometimes stop and wonder what on earth that racket is coming from the stereo. If only for a few seconds, at least. And so ‘twas… Continue Reading →
If you’re ever going to discover new music, you’ve got to roll your sleeves up and get your hands dirty. And so it was I found myself clutching the latest copy of Vinterverv by Fairy, a band that promises to… Continue Reading →
There’s something undeniably uplifting about those teeth-jarring riffs that Luciferian Rites have managed to put together on When The Light Dies. They are constant, bleak, ever evolving and very much in the classic vein of black metal. Which might mean… Continue Reading →
My first thought on being handed a copy of an album entitled ‘Cvlt’ was that it is a fairly audacious statement of intent and that this had better be bloody good! Despite the variation in the use of the word… Continue Reading →
It’s relatively safe to say that any band heralding from the heavy metal capital of the world (Birmingham obviously), can be approached with an air of sunny optimism. This air of optimism is not wasted on Brutal Death lads Spawned… Continue Reading →
Saturnian Mist have, over a relatively short space of time, developed a fairly unique and intense take on black metal. It was evident on their early stuff back in 2009 that they were pushing into something more individual than the… Continue Reading →
Celtachor have returned in fine form with their rough and raw brand of pagan metal and a mission to educate us all in a bit of Irish folklore. The good news upfront is that, this time round, the Irish whistle… Continue Reading →
Khaos-Dei is a brand new black metal outfit from France who’ve been quietly laying the groundwork for their first release with a bit of secrecy-shrouded and mysterious marketing drip-fed here and there. It’s undeniably French with firmly nationalist undertones even… Continue Reading →
Blackened thrash is one strand of metal that will forever have one heavily-studded hobnail boot planted firmly in the 1980s. That’s a good thing, by the way. A great thing, in fact. The days of ‘How much heavier?’, ‘Faster?’, ‘Harder?’… Continue Reading →