Category ALBUM
The history of The Crown is a bit complicated. Suffice to say the Swedish death/thrash band have had their share of line up changes and split up in 2004 when original (and best) vocalist Johan Lindstrand buggered off to form… Continue Reading →
It’s not easy reviewing a two track, especially when one of those two tracks is a cover and the other features a guest vocalist! But that’s what I got, and that’s what I gotta do. Crossnail used to be known… Continue Reading →
I have been waiting over three years for this album, those not familiar with this band should know I have been a keen follower before they released the first version of their EP (reviewed here: http://www.avenoctum.com/2013/05/night-demon-st-ep-sr). Roll on a few… Continue Reading →
The San Francisco-based duo, Bezalith and Otrebor, have taken a side-step here from their other band, Botanist, to write an album inspired by the 1st Century BC materialist text De Rerum Natura. It translates as The Nature Of Things and… Continue Reading →
There are only really two horses in the race to be the kings of British brutal death metal. Bristol’s Amputated released their third LP a year or so ago and it was a killer record and here we have Manchester… Continue Reading →
Coming right at you with a refreshed line up, U.D.O. blast into 2015 with a fresh sounding much more improved effort than previous albums released in recent years. History lessons are not required here, if you know metal you should… Continue Reading →
It’s really no surprise at all that one man machine Vardan is quick off the mark to release an album in January this year. After all the Sicilian threw out no less than three of them along with a split… Continue Reading →
Formed in 2012 as the brainchild of Simon Abele and featuring members, both past and presently in Liquid Horizon, December Flower, Edge Of Serenity, Behind The Scenery and Athean, Andsolis are a new progressive death metal group set to release… Continue Reading →
Had anyone feared that Freiburg’s Finsterforst might have opted for a radical departure from the winning formula of their last album Rastlos, rest easy. Not only is that atmospheric pagan metal sound still fully intact, this might as well be… Continue Reading →
Caïna (pronounced keye-nah, not kay-nah) have been a staple within the underground since 2004; the band went on a hiatus in 2011, only to return in 2013, and it would seem a break has done them good. While always firmly… Continue Reading →
“Squidheads, squidheads roly-poly squidheads. Sqidheads, squidheads, eat em up yum!” Well not quite as far as this calamari enthused one man project from Belgium is concerned as it is purely instrumental but if you made up your own words and sang… Continue Reading →
The big guns are keen to get blazing at the start of 2015 and Marduk are quick off the mark to fire it up with studio album number 13. Its thematically a return to the trenches as well, citing their… Continue Reading →