Category ALBUM
Over a year has passed since Satan’s Satyrs released ‘Die Screaming’ (see Ave Noctum reviews passim) onto the world care of Bad Omen Records, and 2015 sees this happy relationship between band and label bare fresh fruit in the form… Continue Reading →
Spewed into existence in 2008, Oslo’s Repulsive Aggression have hardly been prolific with this being only their second full length release (alongside their initial 3 track demo), but looking at the CVs of the members (including time with Svarttjern, Bloodspawn,… Continue Reading →
I confess this is a band I didn’t know anything about before picking up this album but it seems that they’ve done the rounds in their six years of existence. “Disharmony” is the LA band’s third full album release. Reading… Continue Reading →
My first taste of Australian progressive technicians Caligula’s Horse comes as quite a shock. Having sampled the delights of Skyharbor & Alaya at recent UK TechFests and been blown away by each one’s recorded output, I see it as an… Continue Reading →
Upon listening to Véhémence for the first time, I quickly decided that the French band’s debut album would probably be like early Desaster. Well, I had just heard the opening track here – a full-on battleground of rage, mania and… Continue Reading →
Greek war helmet-obsessed black metallers Archemoron fire up a melting pot that blends the finest of the grandiose Hellenic tradition with elements the far flung reaches of the extreme metal universe. Dropping in death, thrash and straight down the line… Continue Reading →
GOLD’s mission statement is to “play a distinct form of heavy rock as a monument to civilisation’s decline”. This follow-up to their first album “Interbellum” is much more than heavy rock. “No Image” should really be called “A Multitude of… Continue Reading →
Bestial. Primitive. Morbid. No, not a description of my sex life (….although) but an accurate summary of this cracker from Grave Ritual. If you’ve not heard of the band before, they formed in 2009 after Ryan (vocals / guitar) &… Continue Reading →
Saviours are one of those bands that are hard to pin down into one category, they have plenty of metal and stoner included for good measure, the nearest comparison would be High On Fire or even the first release by… Continue Reading →
‘Home’ is the debut full-length album from NYX. No, not the death metal band from Italy…Nope, not that other band from Turin… Certainly not the thrash band from London, and definitely not the French electro-pop band! The NYX in question… Continue Reading →
One of my most anticipated albums of the year and there’s been much in the way of promotion leading up to this, in fact you could hardly have failed to realise that it was on the way if you are… Continue Reading →
It’s the second full-length outing for Swedish Dark/Doom/Heavy Metallers Avatarium, the band that features guitarist Marcus Jidell (ex-Evergrey, ex-Royal Hunt, The Ring etc.), his missus Jennie-Ann Smith doing a sterling job on Vocals, bassist Lief Edling (Mr. Candlemass etc.), Carl… Continue Reading →