Category ALBUM
2020, the year of both pandemic and the metal cover album. Seven months in and we’ve already seen grunge cover albums from both Thou and MANTAR, now comes something a little more unconventional from Virginia’s most devastatingly heavy amalgamation of… Continue Reading →
A bit of a quicky for you with this one, a four track EP of covers from Australian pomp-rockers, The Neptune Power Foundation. I reviewed their last album, “Memoirs of a Rat Queen” back in October for this very site,… Continue Reading →
Lost, found, descending the dark and then relief, stability and composure – this is the conceptual theme for this second album by Spanish metal band Thyrant. The band don’t claim to represent any particular genre. My first thoughts when I… Continue Reading →
I don’t know much about Eremit, save for the fact that they are from Germany, they are on the excellent Transcending Obscurity record label, and that their logo features a twist on the classic Conan the Barbarian sword graphic. This… Continue Reading →
Featuring former members of Hang The Bastard, Chapters was a different kind of beast that took Joe Nally and Angus Neyra in a more technical and progressive direction whilst still capturing the fury of their old band. Released in 2013,… Continue Reading →
Bordeaux based 5 piece Anaxagor started out in 2017 and they play a hard hitting brand of Thrash and Death Metal, two genres which have a lot of synergy with each other but are often difficult to mix in the… Continue Reading →
For whatever reasons, let’s say probably creative differences, Howls Of Ebb split up after just a couple of albums leaving half the line-up, Brungard to go it alone with new project Herxheim. Introduction made via Cultivating Throne Of Fur EP… Continue Reading →
While the bulk of the releases covered by Ave Noctum fall into the extreme category in one way or another, we are also partial to an occasional more atmospheric release. While not extreme in terms of brutality, let’s be clear… Continue Reading →
With many of us struggling with the current live music famine at the moment, due to obvious reasons, we get a slight glimmer of relief with Schmier et al launching their latest live opus, ‘Born To Thrash’, and it is… Continue Reading →
What we have here is “a rock album about sex, death and the pursuit of freedom”. If you have no idea how the words above could be related, dear reader, and if you don’t find them appealing in the least,… Continue Reading →
In these trying times for music, and especially the underground scene which does not have the reserves of larger labels and a back catalogue to tide them over, it is always heartening to see a new label come forward, and… Continue Reading →
The band that time forgot is a phrase that could be levied against UK black thrashers Devasator whose band name I thought might have had an umlaut on one of the letter a’s (if you don’t know what I mean… Continue Reading →