Category ALBUM
All hail Hecate “the goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts and necromancy”. It is not in an Enthroned sense here and this is no black metal album but a journey into dark ambient from a practitioner in deepest… Continue Reading →
Germany’s Wheel made quite an impression on me in the last couple of years, their tape “Live at the Hammer of Doom 2013” was pretty special, and their last release was I think my first lockdown purchase, along with a… Continue Reading →
While mankind has probably been sharing frightening stories since developing coherent speech, the emergence of the gothic novel marks the modern beginnings of the horror genre. The Castle of Otranto and everything that followed gave the world the grotesque, the… Continue Reading →
For those of us old enough to remember the awesome death metal scene that began in the mid-1980s and especially the unique Scandinavian scene that saw the pioneering acts of Entombed, Grave, Dismember, Unleashed, Carnage, Nihilist (yes I know they… Continue Reading →
Formed in late 2013 by Thorben Rathje in Germany and Rich Osmond in the United States, Cambion released a demo and EP before Chason Westmoreland joined the duo in 2019. Throwing itself into the title track “Conflagrate the Celestial Refugium”… Continue Reading →
Do you like your hair big, and your denim doubled? Do you miss the days when there weren’t a multitude of metal genres and subgenres, with tuts and sneers from assorted divided camps? Hell, do you miss the days when… Continue Reading →
The word Borstal will conjure up bleak and terrible images for those of a certain age. Visons of sexual assault in a potting shed and bloody violence coupled with a young Ray Winstone proclaiming himself “the Daddy” are etched in the minds of… Continue Reading →
Metal or not metal? That is not the question as Les Chants du Hasard (Songs of Chance) turn to orchestral music to create dark and violent soundscapes, while including soprano and tenor voices, the spoken word, the voices of children… Continue Reading →
The last time I covered Necronomicon, it was the tail end of 2015 and I opened up my piece on their album with a classic Army of Darkness reference. This time I thought about it but eventually decided against it,… Continue Reading →
Playing an album can be like opening a musical portal taking you to another time and place. As a listener you should perhaps err on the cautious side as you never know quite where you are going to end up…. Continue Reading →
Germanic death metal can be brutal, uncompromising and out and out butchering, and this is a case in point for the first full length release from German duo, Terminal Carnage. ‘The Sickening Rebirth’ is battering and bludgeoning from start to… Continue Reading →
I am totally unfamiliar with this Spanish act whose homeland is the Catalonia region, which has a bearing on the album that I’ll write about later. Having formed in 2003 the band released a demo and two full lengths which… Continue Reading →