Category ALBUM
I was lucky, even grateful, to catch this Belgian act the Graspop Metal Meeting in 2017, even if my travelling companions didn’t seem that impressed with the band whilst watching them. Their atmospheric brilliance was staggering to watch so getting… Continue Reading →
Another band from Portland, Oregon, the town where seemingly everybody makes music, and in many cases music of the darker kind. A new band from musical Portland, where people – the mayor included – are standing up against Trump, his… Continue Reading →
This five piece from Sweden “play rock music”, was what I read on one of the sources I used to get some background. Whilst I agree that this unilluminating statement can be countered by “you’ll find out if you listen… Continue Reading →
I’m sure many of you, like me, follow labels, because they have a sense of what bands are good and US black metallers Ominous Resurrection have been picked by the Norwegian label for this second album. The trio comprising this… Continue Reading →
Well we know all about Contagion right now and we have lots of laws to follow due to it. No doubt this is a namely coincidence from Ishkur the man behind this Portuguese blackened death project but it is certainly… Continue Reading →
This is a completely unknown band to me, I confess, and being told that the duo that makes up Hymn were in Buckaduzz, Tombstones and more recently Sâver doesn’t help because I’ve never heard of them. Hymn are from Norway,… Continue Reading →
Being a reviewer is often times somewhat masochistic, we’ll put ourselves in positions that will likely cause us audible horror. The band who we speak of today, Cultus Profano are somewhere in the middle of that for me. Their debut… Continue Reading →
Beginning straight off with a curiously Nile meets Melechesh bit of blackened death metal with ‘Broken’, this Russian band weave some North African and Middle Eastern melody through their somewhat technical death attack. Have to say in minutes you are… Continue Reading →
〇 or sometimes called Núll is an assault on your senses, this Icelandic band comprising members of Carpe Noctem, Misþyrming, Vonlaus and Naðra is formidable to say the least and with the single track ‘Null & Void’ composition released in… Continue Reading →
While only containing 3 songs, this album is three quarters of an hour long, and when you notice the second song is just shy of 5 minutes, you realise just how long the other 2 happen to be. While the… Continue Reading →
No, I haven’t already reviewed this album two years ago, that was the similarly titled “To Kill To Live To Kill”, the first part in a two part concept spread over both releases (hence the familiar album name). Manticora, who… Continue Reading →
At the beginning of the year, I had the impression that everyone who could afford to do so was putting off releases. Since the beginning of the summer, in normal times a bit of a dry season, great albums have… Continue Reading →