Category ALBUM
Another review, and yep, another rant about those damnably prolific Swedes! How the hell do they keep on nurturing such a massive underground scene with such a comparatively small population? Is it the long winter nights that force creativity to… Continue Reading →
In the absence of being able to tour off the back of their spectacular comeback album Forever Black, Cirith Ungol instead have taken a little trip back to their archives and recorded four old and oldish tracks that never appeared… Continue Reading →
I last covered Australian Progressive metal four piece Teramaze back in 2015 when they released “Her Halo”, an impressive progressive metal album which managed to stand out alongside other notable progressive metal releases that year (Queensrÿche, Symphony X, The Great… Continue Reading →
Finnish Juggernauts Sadistik Forest have delivered another crunching and bruising package in the form of 4 track EP, ‘Obscure Old Remains’, which will maul and batter you from the opening chords of ‘Mandragore’ to the closing echoes of ‘Waters Black’…. Continue Reading →
There are some bands that you just instantly fall in love with, such is the case for me and Impaled Nazarene. I heard their debut album Tol Cormpt Norz Norz Norz… pretty early on in my Extreme Metal journey. It… Continue Reading →
Is it really 4 years since I reviewed “The Horse and Other Weird Tales” by Finns Jess and the Ancient Ones? Of course time stands for Jess and chums – somewhere around 1967 in a haze of patchouli, flowers and electric kool aid. Exactly how it… Continue Reading →
This second album has taken some time to be unveiled since the bands excellent debut, ‘The Deep Longing For Annihilation’ released in 2017, but it has been worth the wait. Being picked up by the prolific German label should suggest… Continue Reading →
With an impressive 25-year career, Switzerland’s Impure Wilhelmina drop album number seven. Line-up changes have not deterred them as they continue to straddle the rock/metal divide. Michael Schind has remained the group’s creative force throughout. Opening with a muscular, swirling riff… Continue Reading →
Amorphis guitarist Esa Holopainen has decided it’s high time he mixed things up a bit. I guess 30 years in the same band can do that to a guy, but it’s not like Amorphis with their Dark Metal stylings are… Continue Reading →
Having blurred the lines between post-hardcore, punk and black metal for a decade as vocalist/guitarist in Svalbard, last year’s lockdown brought a bit of downtime for Serena Cherry to focus on a Skyrim themed album. For the uninitiated, Skyrim is… Continue Reading →
It’s just a bit over a year that AAfCC released their last full-length, and here they are presenting us with another one, their second on Prosthetic Records and their ninth in total. Too much too soon? Maybe. But what is… Continue Reading →
A lot of bands who promise a mix of Black, Death, Punk etc are generally atonal and dull. So why would I want to review such a band? Well because what if it isn’t like that? What if it really… Continue Reading →