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Verikalpa had been an integral part of the Scandinavian Pagan/Folk Metal scene for a good ten years before their debut finally arrived in 2018 – now there’s no stopping them! We had another instalment in 2020 and already, right here… Continue Reading →
It’s often with a fair degree of trepidation that I approach a body of music that is prefaced within the preassembled PR guff as transcending several musical genres. It serves to do a few things I guess, firstly it seeks… Continue Reading →
Stalking confidently and belligerently forward into their dark and powerful Metal realm, we find two former Iced Earth members Matt Barlow and Freddie Vidales, offering forth their own meaty, weighty take on Heavy Power Metal that proves welcomingly to not… Continue Reading →
I have followed this Vancouver based band on an online music platform and have been waiting for the full length album to be unleashed since first hearing the ‘From Hell’ demo. The time is now. Maule are a traditional metal… Continue Reading →
OK I am going to start the review of Arctic Plateau’s third full length album with the caveat that I feel a little duped into reviewing it by the PR blurb which promised post-rock/shoe gaze for fans of The Cure and Alcest. I gotta admit… Continue Reading →
For some reason the Finnish black metal scene has always held something above other black metal scenes in other countries, I am not quite sure what it is that attracts me to the bands from the frosty country but one… Continue Reading →
Taking their name from a Latin quote attributed to Cicero and the theme of this album from Mesopotamian mythology and the epic odyssey of Gilgamesh it is obvious that this German based outfit have an interest in history and ancient… Continue Reading →
Fit For An Autopsy, are one of those bands that, for me, have been lumped in with what seems like a plethora of cookie cutter bands, bubbling away in the stew that is the Deathcore scene. All syncopated double bass… Continue Reading →
I’ve been lucky enough to review a fair amount of Ereb Altor’s albums over the years – they were actually one of the first bands I reviewed back in 2013 when I’d recently joined the hallowed ranks of Ave Noctum…. Continue Reading →
I don’t know what it is about acts from the Southern hemisphere of our miserable planet but they seem to have that bit more of a rabid edge over their contemporaries in the North at times. Out of the handful… Continue Reading →
The strap-line for the site you are kindly reading proclaims that it is your source for the “atmospheric and extreme”, and lurking amongst the pages are bands with sounds and aesthetics that seem to have been vomited from the depths… Continue Reading →
This hard to pronounce Belgian trio burst pretty much from out of nowhere back in 2015 with the 1st part of their conceptual trio of albums ‘De doden hebben het goed’. Anyone who heard it knew that great things lay… Continue Reading →