Category ALBUM
This gruesome twosome began life in Northern Italy in 2001 comprising Thorshammer on vocals and guitars and Gornhar on Drums. Their plan? To channel pure uncontaminated hate through their music. They were eventually joined by Dr Faustus on bass and… Continue Reading →
I picked up Witherscape’s first album ‘The Inheritance’ on an old fashioned whim after seeing it in an independent record shop (one of the few that remain), and then being drawn in by the cover, the suggestion on the cover… Continue Reading →
Certain names seem to crop up throughout the year and I do wonder at times who the most prolific musician is that turns up in extreme music with the most regularity? Rogga Johannson is no slouch, Niklas Kvarforth likes guesting… Continue Reading →
Originally released on CD by the band themselves a couple of years ago, the debut album of Winter Deluge sees new distro/label Frozen Blood Industries pick up the release for a tasty vinyl re-issue. Not knowing a huge amount about… Continue Reading →
Wow, if there’s a list for transformations of 2014 then Lincolnshire duo Self-Inflicted Violence would surely be at the number one spot. Since forming in 2007, the pairing gained a reputation in the underground for playing harrowing depressive black metal…. Continue Reading →
Citing the likes of Nile, Cannibal Corpse and Behemoth amongst their inspirations, this stuck out like a sore thumb amongst my review pile for getting fast tracking to my ol’ lug holes with priority. Veilburner’s debut album is packed with… Continue Reading →
I don’t think it would be exaggeration to state that this album has been much-anticipated in certain quarters. Storming onto the underground black metal scene in 2009 with their ferocious EP ‘With Burning Tongue’, the Germans swiftly followed this up… Continue Reading →
Following on from the recent release of Polish black metal trio THAW’s sophomore album, the band have also put out a compilation, comprising their first demo ‘Decay’ and an EP ‘Advance’. ‘Decay’ was originally self-released by the band and contained… Continue Reading →
The UK doesn’t have a vast amount of Symphonic Metal bands, but of the few we have Pythia are one of our best – I love the fact that it was formed by a former member of the Mediaeval Baebes… Continue Reading →
Funeral doom is the ultimate slow-burn and, as a result, always has the same impending potential as that drifting iceberg lying in wait for the Titanic. It can be a long wait in cold dark waters but when the crunch… Continue Reading →
Formed in Lucerne, Switzerland, back in 2003, Mortal Factor have finally decided to release their first full length album after establishing themselves as a solid live act in the continent, having shared the stage with the likes of Aborted, Entombed… Continue Reading →
With a name like Hateful Abandon you could expect this lot to be some sort of doom death conglomeration but they are not as I found out picking up their interesting looking last release 2011 album ‘Move’ on the cheap… Continue Reading →