Category ALBUM
On the surface the port city of Halmstad Sweden looks like a nice place to visit and if you were to type it into an image search there are nice scenes of waterways, bustling streets with stalls and bars, gothic… Continue Reading →
“At the end of the twelfth century, in the city of Acre, one of the most powerful cavalry military orders the world had ever seen was born…” Thus begins the Prologue to Rex Regi Rebellis the first track of The… Continue Reading →
Vicenza based Lovecraft inspired Doom duo Domenico Groppo and Roberto Biasin are collectively known as Starspawn of Cthulhu. Since 2020 the pair have been traversing their own path of eldritch horror and this year sees the release of their latest… Continue Reading →
Based on a short story written by bassist and vocalist Niilo Sevänen, “inspired” by the Torsåker witch trials in 17th century Sweden, this is the 9th album by the Finnish quintet and 4 years since their last offering. As is… Continue Reading →
After a four-year hiatus, Italians Enisum are back with their fifth full-length album, Forgotten Mountains. Its predecessor Moth’s Illusion was a very good and slightly out of the box take on atmospheric black metal. The subject was nature, of course,… Continue Reading →
In Belarusian, the word ‘Ciemra’ simply means Darkness. An apt name for this relatively new Black Metal band from Minsk whose debut album will be released later this month on CD and LP by Avantgarde Music. Darkness is very much… Continue Reading →
Something a bit deliciously different here but boundaries are meant to be pushed and we cannot be listening to the same styles all the time, things would quickly get stale. Heading off to the south coast and the seaside City… Continue Reading →
I’ve always hated the term supergroup, it sends icy tendrils into my bowels turning me into a chocolate poo machine, causing my intestines to spasm and rendering my jeans into a waterslide of excrement. I mean of course it doesn’t,… Continue Reading →
Name checking some of the most awesome death metal bands in the PR material had me wanting to hear this. This is a project born during the pandemic, old school death metal akin to Massacre, Death, Cancer and Bolt Thrower,… Continue Reading →
If you’ve had even the briefest look at the news in the world of Metal, you’ll likely be aware that Pantera are trending, Phil Anselmo and Rex Brown recruiting Zakk Wylde and Charlie Benante to fill the massive gaps left… Continue Reading →
While they have have perhaps not reached the household name status of Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden, Paradise Lost are one of the most influential and important metal bands to hail from our shores, and in many ways can be held… Continue Reading →
Alain Leonard + Alex Wank’s LAWA are back with the promised sister release to ‘Manipulation’. Instrumental sound exploration through a variety of genres is the method here and like its companion piece the ‘mega synthesists’ at the helm of the… Continue Reading →