Category ALBUM
It was two years ago that the French black metal entity Mortis Mutilati released its second album of crypt dwelling black metal. Inspired by cemeteries, death and the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, ‘Nameless Here for Evermore’ was an unsurprisingly… Continue Reading →
NWOBHM underdogs Soldier released a storming album called ‘Dogs of War’ a couple of years back, ‘Defiant’ is a brand new release that does more than rest on past glories and musical styles. Whilst still a very British metal album,… Continue Reading →
It’s time to head off around the world on a journey of discovery akin a bit to the books of Willard Price if anyone remembers his adventure series where a group of explorers travelled all over the shop having thrills… Continue Reading →
Way to make me feel old, guys: Goatsnake. See I always think of them as one of my ‘third (old) age of being a music fan’ discoveries and then I realise that their last full length was so long ago… Continue Reading →
My translator seems to be permanently set on Finnish to English at the moment, and once again it came to the rescue as I was able to learn that “Pimeyden Valtakunta” isn’t quite as obscene as it sounds, but translates… Continue Reading →
I so often come into this stuff with high hopes of a revelatory experience. When I say ‘this stuff’ I’m referring to pretty much everything that you could include in a massive cross section of sound from Joy Division to… Continue Reading →
Berklee College of Music in Boston. The largest college of contemporary music in the world. A seat of learning that spat forth Quincy Jones, Bruce Hornsby, John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy and Steve Vai. It is also the institution that created… Continue Reading →
“What have you made of yourself? Are you proud? Is anyone else?” bellow the vocals on ‘Worthless’. This is the fourth track of ‘Endless Misery’, sophomore album from London sludge/doom metal hatemongers Dead Existence. If you’re reading those lyrics and… Continue Reading →
Can Of Worms, from Bayonne, France are a four piece who blend thrash metal and death metal and are currently on album #2 – “Kult of Nuke”. The French thrash death outfit promise a healthy dose of what they describe… Continue Reading →
Having a band member from Impiety is for me a point of interest, and this is the case here. The band member in question’s time with the Singaporean extremists was in fact short-lived, and Cohol themselves have been going since… Continue Reading →
After 27 years, it’s album number 14 for Halifax’s finest, Paradise Lost, and what a hell of a journey it’s been so far! Their humble and deathly beginnings gave rise to the pioneering style of “Gothic Metal”, before they went… Continue Reading →
Fourteen years after their last full-length – and the only one I have any experience of – Sweden’s black/industrial pessimists Diabolicum return. That previous record ‘The Dark Blood Rising’ was from recollection (the CD resides across the open sea from… Continue Reading →