Category ALBUM
While I’ve yet to listen to their new album ‘The Plague Within’ and it’s been quite a while since I was passionate about Paradise Lost, I thought I’d give this album a shot as it contains some good songs from… Continue Reading →
Hegemon have been around for a while now – two decades to be exact – shuffling around on the underground with a couple of half decent full-length releases before an album with Season of Mist in 2008. Contemptus Mundi also… Continue Reading →
Whenever I get French extreme metal bands to review my first thought is to throw away the rule book and await the twisted ingenuity that often comes with them. However this death metal project rests firmly on solid tested ground… Continue Reading →
Greece have gave me some interesting bands to listen to over the past 18 months, the two most notable being Speedblow, a five piece melodic death metal come stoner groove metal band and progressive metallers Mother of Millions whose debut… Continue Reading →
As far as the other 19 bands listed on Metal Archives going by the name Revenge are concerned they may as well just do one and fuck off. Yes harsh words but we are dealing with a band here who… Continue Reading →
It’s strange how things happen. As you probably know, here at Ave Noctum we all do an album of the year list, and to remind myself of formatting I was just refreshing my memory looking at the one I did… Continue Reading →
I like everything about Nhor. I like the pagan-pastoral vision, the unhurried compositions that braid black metal together with gently sombre acoustic passages; I like the album covers and the increasingly elaborate products that accompany its releases (the latest comes… Continue Reading →
Formed in Athens in 2013, Greek four piece Breath After Coma have just released their self-titled debut 6 track EP. With a sound heavily influenced by the famous Seattle Grunge scene which dominated rock music in the early 90’s along… Continue Reading →
Devin Townsend Project – Devin Townsend Presents: Ziltoid Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Inside Out)
You know exactly who this man is and what this man can do, there is no need for a long winded introduction. The mastermind behind the chaotic and insanely heavy Strapping Young Lad, the voice of Steve Vai’s Sex &… Continue Reading →
What a great idea, get two of the most horrific outfits in existence and throw them together, double the horror! In the left corner and standing with their backs to us we have the mysterious Dragged Into Sunlight from various… Continue Reading →
As the title suggests, this album is somewhere “out there”. Dreamy hippie sounds from a bygone era with a pleasant rhythm and a smooth song progression make for a calming and hypnotic experience. That’s typified by “Hey Ya Sun Ra”,… Continue Reading →
I have heard so many good things about Swallow the Sun over the years but somehow always managed to miss them when they played live. It’s redemption time now as “Songs from the North” is a triple album, each transmitting… Continue Reading →