Category ALBUM
This album was given the very brief description of Black Rock Country when I spied it in the list of ready and willing releases. Gotta say that description intrigued me. I was envisaging something like the Canadian terror country of… Continue Reading →
Four albums in and Swedish Metal band Metalite are in a confident enough place to release their first concept album. A futuristic Sci-fi adventure, the band are keen to point out that it incorporates all the musical elements the band… Continue Reading →
Domination Campaign is the brainchild of Psycroptic frontman Jason Peppiatt, and he is joined by Psycroptic bandmate, Joe Haley, making this 50% of the Tasmanian Technical Death Metal giants working on a musical venture which exists to act as a… Continue Reading →
Last summer I was lucky enough to get a guided tour around The Bestiary, debut album by Aberdeen based band Cyclops Cataract. Building upon the foundations of previous EP ‘Swallow The World’ it was an intriguing and genre-shifting release far… Continue Reading →
Two bands, each with three tracks are presented on this split album and we are promised “Over 40 minutes of cosmic despair, madness and pain.” Sounds like a challenge as far as I am concerned and with void-dwelling cover art… Continue Reading →
The concept behind this second album by the Glaswegian band Sgàile is interesting: “Traverse the Bealach is that of a nomadic traveller in post-apocalyptic Scotland, trying to figure out his fate and facing the elements while travelling north, battling inner… Continue Reading →
I don’t know if it’s me and the failing eyesight process, or just the winter dark, but the purple on black script meant that I couldn’t read any of the lyrics or information on any of this otherwise nicely packaged… Continue Reading →
Little breaks can be a good thing, for example I am now back from a year long hiatus from reviewing. Rather interestingly this first review I have chosen is from Master who themselves have had a bit of a break… Continue Reading →
Vos, the man “without a heart” from Poland is back with his second album, the title of which seems to translate to “Forever A Shadow.” The silhouetted entity caught attention with debut album Wędrówkę haniebnie zakończyć a long five years… Continue Reading →
I reviewed Biolume 2 for Ave Noctum. Biolume 3, on the other hand, is instantly more memorable and pleasing to the ears. It’s Midnight Odyssey returning, albeit reluctantly, to his astral black metal roots, and giving us a metaphorical middle… Continue Reading →
The prolific Transcending Obscurity label is a byword for death metal productions, and here’s another one, this time by Saevus Finis from Portugal. The points of reference for this “chest-bursting heaviness” and “dark, hypnotic and suffocating death metal’ are bands… Continue Reading →
Satanic horns aloft it’s time for some unadulterated metalpunk from Japan. This trio comprising of Noctisadistum, Vladphemer and Branded Rebel have been active since 2015 and made a racket over a slew of demos, splits, live album a compilation and… Continue Reading →