Category ALBUM
This album is described as a “concoction of melodic death metal and crust punk”, with the band’s style being likened to Black Sabbath, Entombed, Neurosis and High on Fire. This is the debut album from the no-frills, “three piece riff… Continue Reading →
Draconicon are not a band who stand still. After a very impressive debut back in 2021, this Italian Power Metal band have ditched the fantasy realms, costumes and dragons. However, they do retain their not-so-mysterious pseudonyms and have come thundering… Continue Reading →
There’s no shortage of Succubi in the metal world but this one is a German melodic death metal quintet active since the early 90’s. In that time, they have delivered four albums and various other releases with founding member Matthias… Continue Reading →
Although Danish Viking/Folk Metal band Vansind have been active since 2019, this is actually their debut full-length offering. Whilst the core of the band’s founding line-up remains (current Panzerchrist/Detest drummer Danni Jelsgaard, Mindmare vocalist Joachim Asmussen, bagpipe/whistle player Rikke Klint… Continue Reading →
Nostalgic Death Metal albums are like buses. You miss one then ten will turn up dressed in greasy denim and bullet belts belching songs about war and tragedy before dragging you off towards the early 90’s. Shrapnel Storm from Finland… Continue Reading →
Denizens ov death’s deepest darkest dungeons Vastum are the longest serving acolytes on 20 Buck Spin’s formidable roster. The Bay Area quintet contain within their ranks members of many other acts among them Cardinal Wyrm, Ulthar, Acephalix, Necrot and Human… Continue Reading →
Angelus Apatrida are a band we here at Ave Noctum have nothing but high praise for. Each of their releases since 2012 which have been covered here have all been full of nothing but praise for the Albacete titans and… Continue Reading →
This band from Cyprus have apparently been around since 2011 according to the PR blurb but 2017 according to Metal archives but this is indeed their debut. The PR promises epic, NWOBHM with folk and when the jaunty guitar run… Continue Reading →
Treebeard are from the same progressive post-rock stable as sleepmakewaves, We Lost the Sea and other similar Australian artists. This album, which is the band’s debut, was released two years ago and now being re-released. Mystical sounds accompany the opening… Continue Reading →
Twenty one years into their career, much loved Irish thrashers Gama Bomb deliver their eighth sonic explosion in the shape of “Bats”. Vocalist and guitarist Domo Dixon has taken the reigns and handled the production, mixing and mastering for the… Continue Reading →
This album is the follow-up to the Dutch band’s 2020 release “Form in Motion”. Justifying the description of Autarkh’s music as “contemporary extreme metal”, “Form in Motion” took us to all sorts of strange places, treating us to epic, industrial… Continue Reading →
The Magus, veteran of the Greek black metal world and mastermind behind Necromantia, one of the finest pioneers of the Hellenic sound has finally made his solo debut. Βυσσοδομώντας (Vissodomontas) is the Greek word for “building in the depths”, a… Continue Reading →