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It’s all too easy to sit back and wallow in your own self-importance and ponder your musical knowledge and experience, so I would be comfortable in saying that there aren’t many bands I would say I have not heard of… Continue Reading →
“Rawness is balanced with atmosphere”, explains Burning Darkness’s frontman. The story goes that this second album from the Swedes mixes in horror, Norse folklore and a more melodic progressive element to the known formula of black and blacker metal. The… Continue Reading →
Well, I knew this was going to be a beasty that was going to be hard to contain! It was last summer when Aberdeen based band Cyclops Cataract dropped their debut EP ‘Swallow The World’ and it proved to be… Continue Reading →
Tech Death has played a pretty important role in my life these past few years. It’s a genre which has really helped broaden my musical horizons into Prog, Classic Rock, Jazz influence and much more. It really is quite a… Continue Reading →
Once again the musical colossus from the North West of England rears it’s head as it wakes from its lockdown induced slumber and sheds its skin to reveal something new underneath. From angular sludge in the vein of The Melvins… Continue Reading →
Well here’s a to-do. I mean we have our resident deathshead here somewhere in the Ave Noctum sewers so why am I dragged out of my fetid hamster dungeon for this? Well I am. So there. So firstly, though I… Continue Reading →
Even though I’m a huge Death Metal fanatic I’m not actually all the mad on OSDM. I mean I like it for sure but it isn’t often my first choice. A lot of early Death Metal bands just bore me… Continue Reading →
OK let’s address this quickly first. They use a “v” instead of a “u”. Aaaargh. This much is troooooooo I know I know I know this much is trooooooo! Right, that is out of the way – onto the tunes. Dark, drugged out Satanic Black… Continue Reading →
When I started my radio show (Dark Tryal, every Sunday at 21:00 on TotalRock, promotion). I really thought that I’d be bringing the Death and my co-host would be bringing the Black. However it’s strange that our paths have crossed,… Continue Reading →
Anticipation is a strange beast, especially in the case of the UK’s own tribe of migrating Palaeolithic people Wyrdstaef. With a mere handful of shows they have by force of presence and performance managed to create the kind of interest… Continue Reading →
Wow, heavy, heavy, heavy! Like there’s so much to take in with this release man! Okay, bad jokes aside, and that’s the only kind I do, and vaguely serious amateur music reviewing head in place, there is so much history… Continue Reading →
The duo behind De Arma that is A Petterson and J Marklund are responsible for so many great bands between them and De Arma is not the only one they have collaborated on either. Armagedda, Bergraven, Saiva, Stilla, Sorgeldom, Whirling… Continue Reading →