Category ALBUM
Where on earth do you start with this German bands second album whose title translates as ‘Scum’, they are so off the wall that just describing their music as black metal does it a serious disservice. However the four piece… Continue Reading →
Continuing to lovingly bring Esoteric’s albums to life on vinyl Aesthetic Death have now breathed fresh air into the group’s 3rd full length Metamorphogenesis. It is a somewhat odd release even by this band’s standards. For a start it is… Continue Reading →
The idea that this was noise rock and “organised chaos” was intriguing enough for me to want to listen to it. A Shape are from France, and this is their second album. Away we go with the mind-blowing “Black Mamba”…. Continue Reading →
Black Metal, the genre that’s so ‘trve’ it’s false. I jest but really on reflection as you get older you realise just how pathetic the Norwegian scene was. Of course I love the music but the individuals within, just a… Continue Reading →
There is a Gloomy, eerie and ominous start to ‘Dealing With Demons’ before Dez kicks in with a raspy raucous scream and then it all kicks up a notch, I won’t dissect the album track by track as the majority… Continue Reading →
It seems hard to believe that it’s still not even 10 years since Amaranthe launched that debut album which laid the path for their own unique blend of genre-melding Metal with triple vocal assault. Such has been their impact on… Continue Reading →
Beyond Helevete from Berlin are a one-man band of the Black Metal persuasion. That man is Sven Krause or Natrgaard as his mum probably knows him. (I may have flipped that?) He has recently been joined by a session drummer, Jonas Scmidd to alleviate the loneliness. What am I… Continue Reading →
The first thing I read about this album is that the band defined Queensryche’s 1988 album “Operation: Mindcrime” as the thematic inspiration for it. The second was that Thirteenth Sign are a melodic death / thrash band, with possible appeal… Continue Reading →
It’s that time of year where we enter autumn and a flurry of releases hit us, the big guns come out and fire their weapons. Although this year has been different in many respects and seen the death of live… Continue Reading →
There is something about war-based death metal that just really works for me. Of course, the first name in this little sub-genre is (and probably always will be) Bolt Thrower, followed by bands like Hail Of Bullets, Memoriam, Warmaster and… Continue Reading →
There are some bands who I view as too trve for your average festival line up and Morta Skuld are one of them. They’re the sort of artist you’d find on a Maryland Deathfest or OEF line up and those… Continue Reading →
I gotta say that I am not that well versed in Russian metal. For such a vast country with such a huge impact on world history and culture, the red land has not made much of an impression on my listening habits. … Continue Reading →