Category ALBUM
Being a klutz who only skim reads most PR blurbs I was completely unaware until after listening to this album half a dozen times or more that it is one of the projects of maverick musician Maurice De Jong of… Continue Reading →
Despite pushing out a couple of demos in the late noughties, it wasn’t until 2017 that Prometheus birthed a full album. Rather than steal fire from the gods, this particular Prometheus borrow contemporary dense atmospherics from Cruciamentum et al, melding… Continue Reading →
If you’re not intimately familiar with Armored Saint, considered by many in the know as a band that should have been far more massive than they are, let me briefly educate whilst I simultaneously indulge in a bit of muso… Continue Reading →
Any album from Finnish melodic death-thrashers Mors Principium Est is of great interest. This is album number 7 (no, I hear you say) but whilst the title may not be exciting, the prospect of listening to it is. It’s amazing… Continue Reading →
You could throw a bowling ball into a forest and get a complete strike as it hurtles through the trees knocking one-man black metal outfits over like ten pins. What about those who play thrash though and go it alone?… Continue Reading →
Of the three bands with this moniker I found, which means Ruins as you probably deciphered, two of them are from Argentina and are polar opposites in style with one being of heavy/power metal and the other sludge whereas this… Continue Reading →
Not sure if I have covered this before in my weekly scribblings that are under a thinly veiled attempt at an album review, very much an excuse to air some dirty laundry and try and be as clever as I… Continue Reading →
If you bought Leaves’ Eyes last EP ‘The Black Butterfly’ in December of last year then you will already have a good idea as to what this full length sounds like. Indeed Leaves’ Eyes affection for Nordic sagas continues with… Continue Reading →
Just to settle any confusion in the first instance this album is actually entitled ὸ θεὀς ὸ βασιλεὐς but putting that in the subject line could cause a website meltdown, so like others we are going with the translation. Anyway,… Continue Reading →
Ironed Out are part of L.B.U. – London Black Up. If you have been to any UKHC shows in the last two decades – or indeed any shows from overseas bands, you would have seen folk who are part of this HC… Continue Reading →
Saint Petersburg – the town of the Neva, Nevsky Prospect and Nikolai Gogol. Well, at least that’s where some of his most famous stories are set. I have never been there, unfortunately, but I sure would like to visit this… Continue Reading →
Hands down, (musicality and personalities aside), Corby sludge metal lunatics, Raging Speedhorn, have the finest band name in Christendom and with their ‘Sniff Glue, Worship Satan’ merch design, they also take top honours in the best laugh out loud, piss… Continue Reading →