Category ALBUM
Active since 2006, despite title, this is actually the fifth album from French duo ACOD and their first for LADLO. They are described as playing black and death metal and I noted that that Jérome of the highly regarded Celestia… Continue Reading →
Even Flow is a progressive metal band of some pedigree, having been formed in the late 1990s, with a couple of albums and other material to their name and an extensive touring history, plus collaborations with members of Fates Warning,… Continue Reading →
Well, we’re in brutal death/borderline grind territory here with this debut EP. The pro-wrestling fans might also guess the subject of the title track too being about the fucking tragic murder of the family of Chris Benoit by Benoit and… Continue Reading →
I have certainly had a glut of top quality old school death metal to review recently plus some I’ve listened to on top as US grim filled death dealers Acephalix unleash their fourth grisly offering five years after they released… Continue Reading →
Long before Wormrot became flagbearers for Singaporean extremity there was another warlord spearheading the campaign. Shyaithan and Impiety should need not introduction and that commanding grizzled warrior is an imposing force in both music and stature. Devouror formed back in… Continue Reading →
I’m just going to come out the gate with this, it’s bad. This eponymous EP is a big fat failure from new black metal band Pyra. There is extremely little background information about this band, the most I could really… Continue Reading →
I’ve not given Germany’s Firtan much listening since they formed over a decade ago where they subsequently released a couple of EPs and two full lengths. Their last album ‘Okeanos’ was a fine a release however and catching them in… Continue Reading →
US proto-metal, 70’s rock and pure metal band Spellbook have their second release on offer. Their debut came out during the pandemic and was well received by yours truly. However, with a second album in the mix, the defining quality… Continue Reading →
Hussar are a three piece death metal band who pack some added doomy atmospheric sounds to give their music a fierce edge. Hailing from Toronto, Canada, the trio have been a unit since 2018 and already have a live album… Continue Reading →
Back on the slab and casting musical Y shaped incisions, everyone’s favourite revolting death metal surgeons return with their first full length album since 2015 release ‘Skull Grinder’. There has been one replacement since that outing with Greg Wilkinson the… Continue Reading →
“Givre” means frost in French, which gives an immediate clue as to what to expect. The band from the French-Canadian black metal factory have released two previous albums. I don’t know what the longest ever track title is but the… Continue Reading →
So, in all the years that I have been reviewing alongside thee editor (which, fact-fans, is probably longer than many of our readers have been alive, in a slightly depressing moment of clarity), I don’t believe that I have ever… Continue Reading →