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Rather than worry their band name sounds like some Ikea equivalent of a branded pack of dehydrated gravy granules, Sweden’s ORO, have pretensions above a particularly crude segue of an opening sentence attempting to breath life into a review of… Continue Reading →
Having narrowly missed out on reviewing Wayfarer’s recent well-received American Gothic, I figured I was overdue for a bit of dark Americana, and here it is, in the form of Blues for Neighbors, all the way from erm, Poland. Yeah,… Continue Reading →
Dyssebeia in Greek Mythology was the spirit and personification of Impiety, the term which defines sacrilege. Notably, it was called upon by the Olympian goddess Hera to punish Heracles when she was rather pissed off at Zeus because he was… Continue Reading →
I’ve just been listening to an Iblis Manifestations podcast (Shayan from Trivax’s podcast, shout out for him) where Shayan and Cult Never Dies boss Dayal Patterson and the particular segment concerning what is black metal and what the attitude of… Continue Reading →
Mathcore, Noise, Metal, Jazz? That’s the conundrum we are posed with on confronting this album by French instru(mentalists) Ni. Well to me it’s mathcore due to the fact that things never stand still for a second and the motion within… Continue Reading →
If you are searching for obscure music, music that explores sounds off the beaten metal paths, I, Voidhanger Records from Italy is a good place to start looking. Among the many releases and the wide spectrum of genres you are… Continue Reading →
A band which suggests succession to bands such as Anorexia Nervosa, Emperor, Dissection and others is of interest to me. Deathcode Society is such a band. This album promises “a musical journey through …. this gloomy maze where psychosis, murderous… Continue Reading →
Primarily the work of Romain Paulet although extended to a full band for live excursions RüYYn (pronounced Ruin) are a fairly new outfit only active since 2021. Previous to this they released a self-titled EP which kind of left our… Continue Reading →
There’s an old saying in the performing arts world I came across some time ago: “It takes ten years to become an overnight success.” And that has been somewhat true for Master’s Call, the Wolverhampton based black/death collective who have… Continue Reading →
I really didn’t used to like Scottish Bagpipes. Actually, to say I merely didn’t like them is a bit of an understatement, they were probably my least favourite instrument ever, disliked even more than trombone or saxophone, such was my… Continue Reading →
I first heard this Finnish lot back around 2005 when they were still called The Coven but for reasons of life and stuff unrelated it’s been a good ten years or so since I last dropped in on them. I… Continue Reading →
Sadus is one of those bands that I heard for the first time in ’90-91 and thought were a little too extreme for my tastes, at the time. By the time the members had their stints in Death, Dragonlord, Testament,… Continue Reading →