Category ALBUM
This is the second album by this Chilean band and I was promised abyssic hellhounds, ritual, fervent darkness, mystifying song structures, unease, dread and occultic (?) death metal. So, with hopes of waves of weirdness similar to The Axis Of… Continue Reading →
I lucked on to this Brooklyn band just before the review copy arrived; some social media post, a picture that made me think ‘they look suitably obnoxious and anti-social. Kinda like Gehennah… ” Wonder if they sound like that? ‘Gape… Continue Reading →
This is a fifth album ov black metal punk filth, this one shows a touch of variety from your pure gnarly black punk drenched tunes, to Bathory chalices of evil through to some fairly normal metal influences. The mental vocals… Continue Reading →
These Finns have been pumping (giggedy) out their signature brand of pornodeath Grind since 1989. That is a helluva long time in such an extreme niche. In fact, I think that is over a century in PDG years. This is only their seventh full length emission… Continue Reading →
When this arrived for review, I made myself two promises. Firstly, I would not let nostalgia interfere with my review and it would be 100% objective; this promise I kept. Secondly, I would not mention THAT song. For the benefit… Continue Reading →
Aldriendir aka Andreas Baier is a Swedish musician who obviously likes to keep himself busy in a variety of cross-genre bands. We recently encountered him in stoner / desert rock group Besvärjelsen and he has worked past and present with… Continue Reading →
Not much to go on here, but the statement “for fans of Fluisteraars” was for me a draw. That at least set me up to expect some atmospheric black metal from Netherlands. The opening piece of creeping nastiness is pure… Continue Reading →
A regular inducer of chaos befitting of Nyarlathotep itself, Esoctrilihum is well known to some of the writers of the more extreme works of this site, having been covered no less than six times previously. We are well aware of… Continue Reading →
Texas is a definite hub for some huge Brutal Death Metal talent, Devourment and Viral Load particularly spring to mind. However, we can always do with some fresh faces on the scene and this time we’re talking about Texas Murder… Continue Reading →
Blood Era opens with ‘The Age Of Contempt’ which builds with an atmospheric grand musical score before the band kicks in with some brutal and technical uncompromising death metal. Blood Era is overall constructed of nine absolutely devastating and crushing… Continue Reading →
High Castle Teleorkestra – The Egg That Never Opened (Radio Free Albemuth part 1) (Art as Catharsis)
Billed as Experimental/Cinema Italiano, this album has eccentricity written all over it. The inspiration here is sci-fi author Phillip K. Dick and in particular one of his novels “Radio Free Albemuth”. I confess that this reference and indeed the works… Continue Reading →
I thought I had best grab this one and drench myself in an hour’s worth of abject misery. I can wallow in the songs and get used to them before seeing the band supporting Esoteric that way, a show that… Continue Reading →