Category ALBUM
Addictive tunes, juicy riffs and captivating hooks: these are the promised features of this so-called “action rock” from Sweden. Add to this the corny, self-effacing name, and you’ve got this long-standing band’s eighth album. I never know how these “old”… Continue Reading →
The flock is gathered once more, penned in waiting for the wolves to pounce and render flesh. The follow up to debut album ‘Deus qui non mentitur’, sees the French artists BÂ’A reflecting on good and evil and interpreting the… Continue Reading →
This is actually the debut by curiously named Catalonia/Barcelona heavy/speed metal band Redshark. They formed in around 2012 and have a couple of EPs behind them but it looks like they had a couple of major line-up upheavals in 2016… Continue Reading →
Comprised of Iggor Cavalera (ex-Cavalera Conspiracy, ex-Sepultura), Scott Kelly of Neurosis and Amenra’s Mathieu J. Vandekerckhove and Colin H. Van Eeckhout, Absent in Body is something of a post metal supergroup. Their debut album, Plague God, was recorded at Amenra… Continue Reading →
The world of heavy metal, and in this case Doom, is truly an international beast. From what many consider the formative days of Black Sabbath over half a century ago (I’ll let wiser heads than mine such as Andrew O’Neill… Continue Reading →
As the world of gigs and tours slowly returns to something approaching normality after two years in suspended animation, where only the merest glimmer of life was to be seen via online shows from locked down studios, and so many… Continue Reading →
Well, this is fairly “nice” stuff from the seaside city of Portland, Maine. It brings visions of long dusty trails through the woods to a picturesque deserted beach. There might be a waterfall encountered along the way as that is… Continue Reading →
I’m going to be a bit lazy and go straight to the artist’s own description: “Pigments is a mix of ambient, electronic and industrial soundscapes. Pigments uses a dark colour palette to create haunting, serene, strange sound art”. I first… Continue Reading →
It’s a true statement that the San Francisco Bay Area is a base for strong, technical metal bands and here’s another in Nite. This is the band’s second album release. Blackened metal is how it’s described but the first thing… Continue Reading →
Necrom are a somewhat unlikely Ukrainian supergroup, comprising members past and present of Nokturnal Mortum, Elderblood and Grave Circles to name but a few. They’ve undergone several line-up changes since their rather good 2019 demo, notably Roman Saenko left to… Continue Reading →
When it comes to Death/Doom there are really only two questions. Does it Doom? Does it Death? Luckily when Bilbao’s Hex are put to this particular Spanish inquisition the answer is a resounding YES on both counts. This E.P. is only three… Continue Reading →
This is the fourth album by the Danish quartet, which was formed just over a decade ago, with their debut appearing to have been completely in Danish and from what I’m reading a black metal album at that. While ‘Goddess’… Continue Reading →