Category ALBUM
A few years ago, Austrian actor Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds, Carnage) visited an American late night show (check YouTube, if you feel like it) and quizzed his host on the meaning of some tricky German words. Some were silly, some… Continue Reading →
TJ Cowgill has made no secret of the fact that King Dude would eventually come to an end. With a career spanning more than a decade, and a discography that boasts two releases for every year of that, he has… Continue Reading →
If you are one of those people that organise all your discs by genre, this one is going to really screw you up. It might at first seem an easy task as the act helmed by ex Machetezo and current… Continue Reading →
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, or indeed, an album. Many of us have, especially in the world of heavy music. One look at the new album artwork on Aussie band, Arkheth’s “Clarity Came With A… Continue Reading →
Swedish Metal band Hexed are not what you would expect from a loosely thrown Symphonic Metal tag. They weren’t what I expected when I was fortunate enough to review their debut full-length back in 2018 and now, on their follow-up,… Continue Reading →
When I was younger, I would obsessively follow the projects of artists I enjoyed, as I figured that liking something they were doing in one band meant I’d enjoy the output of another band in which they were involved. For… Continue Reading →
Much as we would like the spectre of Covid to be forgotten it is still cropping up as a musical theme and the title here is self-explanatory of the effects that we were saddled with. I have noticed that many… Continue Reading →
I know that “lagu” means song in Malay. The “song” in this case comes from French band Caïnan Dawn who bring us meditative cold wave black metal music, tales of immersive vastness and infinite waves of the soul. It starts… Continue Reading →
The Gaerea debut album back in 2018 feels like a lifetime ago now, with the world having seemingly stopping for a couple of years due to the pandemic. Nonetheless, during that time Portugal’s Gaerea have dragged themselves from the dark… Continue Reading →
As you are all probably aware this German band has taken their band moniker from a song by Autopsy on their ‘Mental Funeral’ album and has become the most prolific of the couple of acts using the band name, the… Continue Reading →
By way of preparation for this album, I listen to this Polish artist’s earlier EP “Inter Spem et Metum”. Utterly dark, violent in parts and straight out of the playbook of dirty blackened death, it is impressive. For “Temporal Capsule”… Continue Reading →
The great Finnish doom band Spiritus Mortis has been in existence since 1987, and ever since that time have been plugging away producing quality classic slow metal. I last encountered the lads with their superb 2016 album, “The Year is… Continue Reading →