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White Ward were one of the bands for whom the pandemic could not have come at a worse moment. Their absorbing last LP Love Exchange Failure, released in the autumn of 2019, fusing lounge jazz with black metal, had left… Continue Reading →
Can it really be the fifth album for American’s Withered? I own four of them now (I haven’t got their sophomore album, Folie Circulaire), and incredibly while they are a band whom I still tend to think of as new,… Continue Reading →
This Normandy based trio are new to the label but have several albums prior to this one. They also contain members of bands such as Monarch, Ataraxie, Malemort and Void Paradigm among others. Although liking what I was hearing straight… Continue Reading →
Well why give something a name when you can call it “//180703//”? It’s a hard one to discuss with your mates, so I guess you’d better ask them if they’ve heard the new EP by that Austrian band Demersus ad… Continue Reading →
A few years ago a Swedish friend introduced me to the music of his compatriots Loch Vostok. I haven’t looked back since. Loch Vostok is one of my favourite bands. “The Doctrine Decoded” (2012) and “Dystopium” (2011) in particular are… Continue Reading →
Denmark has some legendary bands, Witch Cross are a name that crops up a lot. Their seminal classic from 1984 ‘Fit for Fight’ is well referenced. Indeed, a few years back in 2013 they returned with ‘Axe to Grind’. For… Continue Reading →
Utilising gruesome film sound bites, Canadian death thrashers Video Nasty have concocted a brutal blast of old school thrash metal that crosses over into hardcore punk and death metal ugliness. This self titled EP is the bands first outing and… Continue Reading →
It’s no exaggeration to say that hope, expectation and excitement are quite high amongst Helloween fans at present. On the back of the Pumpkins United World Tour, where original guitarist/vocalist Kai Hansen, and “…Seven Keys” etc. vocalist Michael Kiske were… Continue Reading →
Cuba doesn’t automatically conjure up images of blasphemous and malevolent black metal but there is a band which has been plying its trade, cultivating and polishing its black arts deep within the black metal purgatory and this Chthonic duo go… Continue Reading →
Balance is important in everything, and what could provide more balance than reminding yourself of future rainy days at the beginning of summer? Enter Skognatt’s new EP Rain Eternal. The one-man atmospheric black metal project from Augsburg, Germany, behind which… Continue Reading →
Philadelphia’s Heavy Temple is a band that my one prior musical encounter with was care of their rather excellent 2017 EP ‘Chassit’ (see Ave Noctum passim). Since that time there has not been much in the way of recorded output,… Continue Reading →
There has been a wealth of metal acts over the years with the moniker of Apostasy but it’s fair to say that this Chilean version is likely the most well-known though there are active Swedish and US versions with the… Continue Reading →