Category ALBUM
I have been lucky and privileged to have reviewed the Wesenwille discography in some form or another and also to receive some exceptional digipak CDs on which to base them and this third chapter from this Dutch band continues the… Continue Reading →
With their inception coming during the Pandemic years, Melbourne, Australia based Blackened Death Metal band Black Lava have unleashed their new album ‘Soul Furnace’, complete with stunning artwork. In my opinion, the phrase ‘Soul Furnace’ instantly creates an image in… Continue Reading →
Very much an album of two halves here from this Texan quintet. On the one hand we have 5 songs including an instrumental closer and on the other a set of four covers. The reason why they chose the second… Continue Reading →
If you’d like a peek behind the curtain at how things operate at Ave Noctum Towers, allow me to give you gentle reader a rare glimpse behind the curtain of how the sausage is made, rather than the sausage itself…. Continue Reading →
With a name like Virtual Symmetry and a twenty-minute opening track, you might hazard a guess that we’re in classic Progressive Metal territory here, and you would of course be right. But that also may be because you already know… Continue Reading →
German label Prophecy Productions / Lupus Lounge brings you a fascinating two track split release featuring two Black/Death/Doom Metal bands, US one man outfit Tchornobog, and from the UK, fellow one man project Abyssal. A two track split this may… Continue Reading →
The Ishtar Gate, mighty entrance to the inner circles of the near mythical city of Babylon, its construction ordered by King Nebuchadnezzar the Great two and half millennia ago was one of the wonders of the ancient world, and remains… Continue Reading →
This Austrian bands 2020 release ‘Songs Of Love In The Age Of Anarchy’ was one of puzzling but intriguing dynamics, a band never satisfied with one genre focus they constantly switched styles and riffs to craft an album that was… Continue Reading →
In The Woods ….. the Norwegian wood indeed as the band from Kristiansand embark on their sixth album over a 30 year period. Most of the members have joined in the last four years, and indeed the sound of the… Continue Reading →
It’s been six years since we last heard from The Wolves Of Avalon with their ‘Across Corpses Grey’ release of 2016. This comprised of one massive track spanning 30 minutes and a couple of cover versions. We get five numbers… Continue Reading →
Evolution and change is pretty much inevitable in both life and music for its continuing existence. Of course, there are a couple of exceptions to this rule, both sharks and AC/DC having successfully found their evolutionary niches millions of years… Continue Reading →
In 1992, Danish Death Metal band Maceration unleashed their debut album entitled ‘A Serenade of Agony’, which featured Dan Swano under his well used alias Day Disyraah. A demo followed this up in 1995 before the band ceased to exist…. Continue Reading →