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I guess it’s probably appropriate that I started listening to this on Friday the 17th of March… It’s been 12 years since I reviewed ‘Blood on the Black Robe’, and there were 2 other albums released between that and this… Continue Reading →
This Medway group are quite a brutal bunch of souls; their live outings have been energetic and heavy as hell. This is their latest release, but if you are not conversant, than their motto is “beards, metal, F*ck You”. This… Continue Reading →
Damn, there’s so much black metal around fighting for attention at the moment it’s impossible to keep up. Not only that, it seems that even those that I have been unfamiliar with have been of consistent high quality recently and… Continue Reading →
Tilintetgjort are a new Norwegian black metal band from Oslo and this here is their debut album. A few brief moments of listening online before getting the album gave the impression that it was, potentially…er…nuts. So ‘Kvikksolvdrommer’ beginning with a… Continue Reading →
Many, many years ago, when I was still young and daft enough to go all over the Midlands for gigs and make mad dashes for last trains/trams/buses etc, I saw Korpiklaani play JB’s in Dudley. There were nine of Korpiklaani… Continue Reading →
It looks like the nails I hammered into the coffin of this Finnish band’s first and supposedly only full length were premature as the duo of V-Khaoz and Werwolf of Vargrav and Satanic Warmaster respectively, to name just one notable… Continue Reading →
I volunteered to review this malevolent creature essentially on the basis that it featured none other than A.A.Nemthegea on vocals and bass, and I am a big fan of his output. I really had no idea what else the band… Continue Reading →
As the world spins on a precipice and the Doomsday Clock sits at 90 seconds to Midnight, “a time of unprecedented danger” LA based quintet Kommand have holed up in their underground bunker working on the follow up 2020 Maggot… Continue Reading →
To this point, if you’d asked me to say what I knew about Green Bay, Wisconsin, I’d have said cheese, American football and cold weather. I now know that Vredensdal come from this city. The title of this, their fourth… Continue Reading →
Talk about a freshly inked deal. Yes, for those not aware, which is probably most of us a Haliphron Atlanticus is one of the largest species of octopus found in the deep and as far as the band are concerned… Continue Reading →
It is perhaps getting a little repetitive to talk about Covid, the lockdowns and the impact of coming to terms with a new norm as society reopened had on peoples’ mental health but that doesn’t mean that the subject is… Continue Reading →
This is a project I have been following via an online music platform, thankfully those “you might also like” tags work well; David Nilsson, who is the vocalist of Swedish death metal band Feral, forms it. He handled all music,… Continue Reading →