Category ALBUM
Not only is this self-proclaiming black metal cacophony, but we’re told it is “punctuated by giallo horror movie inspired synth and foreboding atmosphere”. It’s all about what’s going in the ecosystems at the bottom of the ocean. “The Abyssal Plain”… Continue Reading →
Polish pulverisers Hostia return with a third album containing 15 tracks of terrorizing savagery following on from the bands excellent EP ‘Resurrected Meat’ released in the middle of 2022 plus their exceptional sophomore ‘Carnivore Carnival’ released in 2020 which I… Continue Reading →
Last album ‘Phase IV’ from this Viennese based project really seemed to speak to me with its mixture of post rock and industrial rooted numbers. They were all of a lengthy running time and sprawled like soundscapes over wide vistas…. Continue Reading →
Chances are you have not heard of Høstsol who have only just emerged out the Autumn Sun but the players within this new project are another matter. Some will no doubt be tagging this with the supergroup descriptor but I… Continue Reading →
Seattle is the home of Re-Buried, a five piece Death Metal band whose inception dates back to 2018 but whose debut album is due for release later this month via Translation Loss records, who are unleashing ‘Repulsive Nature’ on LP…. Continue Reading →
It’s all about blackness and abysses. The artist must have been watching Breakfast TV, or the German equivalent of it. “Reue” (Regret) is Leipa’s second album. The man behind it known as Noise is also responsible for Kanonenfieber, a more… Continue Reading →
This is certainly an EP of two halves and a rather strange one too. Necropolissebeht are a collaboration between German and Canadian members Hekla (Hadopelagyal), Axaazaroth (Nuclearhammer) and errr Ryan. Now Ryan may not have wanted to play the gateway… Continue Reading →
As regular readers will know, every December Ave Noctum’s contributors share their Top 20 albums of that year. So where are we in this year right now? First week in January as I write this and I’m confident that I’m… Continue Reading →
Helpfully, we are given points of reference for this debut album by Greek band Wothrosch. The reference points are the soundscape of SepticFlesh running into the fury of Anaal Nathrakh. So armed with this information, it came as no surprise… Continue Reading →
The latter reaches of 2022 saw Godz ov War Productions unleash the debut album of West Pomeranian Black Thrashing trio Garota. Entitled ‘Czarne wizje’, the album has been released on CD and features eight tracks written entirely in Polish. Like… Continue Reading →
Swedish Black Metal band Gra have returned after a five-year gap with ‘Lycaon’, their fourth studio album and their first collaboration with Italian label Avantgarde Music. As an interesting side note, it is also the first Gra album not to… Continue Reading →
Nasty blackened filth here from the “corpse” that is Poland’s Trup. I was rather expecting this though having encountered the Warsaw based trio on previous EP Szmula and lockdown induced album Ke. Having come out of that to relative freedom… Continue Reading →