Category ALBUM
Four years since the wolf commune have sent a full length out into the wider world and then, in effect the excellent Thrice Woven was kind of a ‘return’ album after a strange period for them with departures, returns and… Continue Reading →
Coldwave, darkwave and black metal are a combination which I find appealing, and that’s what Remah is offering. “Une Main” (One Hand) is the first work to be released by this long-standing Franco-Belgian combo. Background moaning and shivering atmospheres lace… Continue Reading →
Back once more into the secret underground bunker beneath snow-capped mountains that is the domain of the Helvetic Underground Committee. Here we have the ghastly Lykhaeon, a duo comprising of members of acts such as Dakhma, Ungfell & Arkhaaik among… Continue Reading →
Death Rock – does that name wind you up as it does me? I am just too long in the tooth and too scarred by crimpers to dig that kind of jive talking. However, our colonial friends over the Atlantic… Continue Reading →
Music, by its very nature, is the dictionary definition of ostentatious. Said band/musician writes a song and thinks ‘I have to share this, so others may gasp at my genius’. The very nature of an ‘artist’ lends itself to an… Continue Reading →
While this Norwegian trio may have been around for over 20 years, this is only their third album, with it being 9 years since their last offering. But they are definitely going the ‘quality over quantity’ route and I must… Continue Reading →
Arguably, never has an artist had so many projects as Maurice de Jong. Perhaps the most well-known of them is Gnaw Their Tongues. “A Lightless Crown Shuns the Crown of Divinity” is a symphonic black metal work from this man… Continue Reading →
Back in the good old normal days of 2019, members from Church Of Void and Septic Ape got together. The result? FIMIR – doom metal, Finnish style. “Tomb Of God” is the debut LP from the frozen realms of their… Continue Reading →
It only seems five minutes ago that I was reviewing Unreqvited’s last album ‘Mosaic II: la déteste et la détresse’ and the wonderful split with Sylvaine that was released at the same time, but here we are with another top-notch… Continue Reading →
With their olden Latin ligature scripted name and the album artwork, I first assumed this Portland Oregon based quartet were going to be playing that cavernous metal ov death style. Then I got rather excited seeing that three of them… Continue Reading →
I have never been to Appalachia or rural Pennsylvania, but as of lately there has been no shortage of movies and documentaries informing the public about the region’s shocking poverty, its decaying towns, its peculiar variant of Christian belief, and… Continue Reading →
What do you do when your band reaches it’s 25th anniversary? Well in the case of Czech group Avenger, split them up and change their name due to friction among the ranks. No doubt the full story is an interesting… Continue Reading →