Category ALBUM
This album is described as “an occult rock opera dimming the lines between first wave black metal, classic heavy metal and progressive rock”. “Vertumnus Caesar” is the group’s third album release in five years. The strange intro takes us back… Continue Reading →
Cover albums are not only a good way for a band to express their interests but also can allow them the freedom of expression. I’m stating the obvious here but it all stems down to the choices the band make… Continue Reading →
If you scour the internet as I do looking for obscure stuff back in dungeons of the late 80s and 90s then you have probably come across many split releases in extreme metal, many of which are absolutely brilliant and… Continue Reading →
Thrash. Man I love Thrash. There is something about the combination of riffing, groove and tone in this genre which just appeals to me on a fundamental musical level. Perhaps it is due to the fact Thrash formed the core… Continue Reading →
The corpse is bloated, noxious gasses escaping from every conceivable orifice as it settles on the slab prior to the mortician impaling it and cutting open. Organs will be removed and plonked into stainless-steel receptacles, the brain examined and dissected… Continue Reading →
I adored this French duo’s debut album, ‘The Eternal Harvest’, released in February 2022 which I reviewed for the site back then, it was a superlative example of how to construct emotive atmospheric black metal but with abundant aggression. It… Continue Reading →
If the title of this album sounds like some grandiose prog album from the 1970s, then the accompanying publicity suggests that this isn’t so far out. Nods are given to bands like Dream Theater, Threshold, Rush, Tesseract, Haken and Vola… Continue Reading →
So, Cirith Ungol fans. New album. Off you go, pre-order it. You know you want to and it will not disappoint. Right, have they gone? Good. You see as a long term fan of this genuinely unique band there is… Continue Reading →
I imagine that like many folks who visit Ave Noctum, I would not describe myself as much of a Country music fan. The main reason is that the majority of music given that title that the public gets exposed to… Continue Reading →
If you want to be firmly put in your place, then you can do worse than to listen to a Hegerøth album. “Disintegrate” is the band’s fifth album. Thematically it’s about the mindlessness of society where only one kind of… Continue Reading →
This two piece band from Italy ventured across my path with their 2015 debut album ‘Endless Torment’ where I was introduced to this bands old school death metal style, that in truth I had heard many times before and done… Continue Reading →
Like the rise and fall of the sun, leaves that fall from the trees in the autumn and grow back in the spring, Max Cavalera will release new music at least four times a year. Belying his age (fifty-four, although… Continue Reading →