Category ALBUM
The despicable amount of releases continue from one man Sicilian workhorse Vardan and this is his third so far this year. Personally I thought he was going to aim for one a month but with the release date of this… Continue Reading →
Are Satyricon the Metallica of black metal? An important and revered set of early works…the odd curve-ball…and an opinion-dividing run of commercial triumphs…But what do you do when you have successfully pushed a genre’s themes to about as far as… Continue Reading →
This is dirty. This is heavy. This is covered in sweat and pus and someone else’s tears with no money for a night bus or a kebab. This is the sound of every packed, over-heated club show bunged in a… Continue Reading →
Another wicked discovery here! Embrional are an intense death metal band from Gliwice, Poland and have been laying down some misanthropic, Satanic slabs of evil since their first demo in 2006. ‘The Devil Inside’ is their second full length and… Continue Reading →
You wait years for a Peruvian doom album and then two turn up in the space of weeks. To be fair there can’t be too many bands playing this sort of style in the country but then again what do… Continue Reading →
Oooooh mystery! The description of this secretive 5-piece on Facebook says ‘The lights of a legend faded in time. Our duty is to revive this dark neglected flame. We are back from the dead, among the living, among you, confide… Continue Reading →
Hummus records has provided me with some brilliant experiences over the last year or so and also most if not all of their releases are available for free but luckily I got the CD edition for this Swiss acts debut… Continue Reading →
Who could resist “seven tracks of classic black metal replenished by cold wave melancholy and depressive-catatonic doom metal”? On top of that Cién are from Poland. The description of these seven hefty tracks doesn’t do them justice. There are of… Continue Reading →
With “demanding full-time jobs”, these Hamburgers’ often struggle to find time to write, practice and record. And yet here they are with their second album having thrashed out a finished product down at Tonmeisterei Studio with producer Roland Wiegener (Omega Massif,… Continue Reading →
For their third album Jón Aldará replaces original singer Mikko Kotamäki, while the remaining 5 members carry on where they left off, albeit in a slightly more vivacious vein of melodic death metal than their previous releases. The beautifully cheery… Continue Reading →
This is a documentary series that starts to highlight where the LA scene came from. We all pretty much know the scene of the 80’s, but this DVD starts from the 60’s and goes through a period particularly from 1975… Continue Reading →
I have been following and enjoying the work of genocidal USBM group Kommandant since they first made Kontakt with us via their 2010 EP. Their second album ‘The Draconian Archetype’ followed on from that in 2012 and got the comment… Continue Reading →