Category ALBUM
Right off the bat, I really wasn’t sure what I was going to get when I popped this CD into the player. The only things I knew were that Agnes Vein were a Greek band, but upon further inspection I… Continue Reading →
I may be nearing a half century but inside there is still the teenager that was filled with glee when finding pics of King Diamond in Metal Forces magazine and reading the blasphemous over the top lyrics of Venom and… Continue Reading →
A debut album from US blackened death metallers Trenchant, and not to be confused with another act with this moniker also from the USA though I believe they have changed their band name. The three tracks on their debut demo… Continue Reading →
More tea, vicar? No thanks, I prefer to listen to mid-tempo death metal in the vein of Bolt Thrower, Asphyx or Hail of Bullets thanks. Well, that’s what the PR sheet from FDA records promises me, and if the album… Continue Reading →
Culminating a musical gaze cast through the lens of Ingmar Bergman’s Faith Trilogy, the odd, eccentric and relatively obscure Spider God take his 1963 film The Silence as the narrative viewpoint here. We first joined this chronicle in the 2nd… Continue Reading →
I usually do some research about a band before reviewing them unless the are well known to me. However for Amaltheia I decided to go in “blind”, so I had no idea what to expect, other than a friend had… Continue Reading →
Urferd are a new project from Sweden brought to life by Daniel Beckman (Twilight Force, Ages). For the multi-instrumentalist, debut album Resan marks the beginning of a new musical path, going beyond the genres he has been active in so… Continue Reading →
An album of rare beauty during troubled times here. Personally, I expected nothing less and hungrily grabbed ‘The Buried Storm’ hoping it would offer something of peace, tranquillity and calm and on 1st spin marvelled at its gorgeous, somewhat dark… Continue Reading →
Well this is Aesthetic Death so this EP is two tracks and around 25 minutes of music from this French progressive death/post metal band. Not a name I know but again, sometimes that’s good. Fresh ears. Track one, ‘Fanges’ is… Continue Reading →
Crystal Viper are a formidable force in the European Heavy metal scene. Their sound, a tight blend of traditional heavy metal, Euro Metal and NWOBHM has been refined over the years and the band has been highly consistent in terms… Continue Reading →
GGGOLDDD’s frontwoman, Milena Eva, was raped when she was 19. There simply aren’t words to describe how horrific that is. Despite having lived through such an awful ordeal, Milena has never used GGGOLDDD as a medium to express her trauma… Continue Reading →
In true or should I say trve Godz ov War fashion, this album came with minimal information, although it wasn’t hard from the artwork, the band name and the album title to work out that we’re dealing in black and… Continue Reading →