Category ALBUM
As I’m sure has been the case for thousands of other fans, Cannibal Corpse was the band that truly roped me into the death metal genre. Chancing upon a second hand copy of their debut ‘Eaten Back to Life’ –… Continue Reading →
The often used quote “In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes” is attributed to the bad boy of Pop-Art, Andy Warhol, the man whose Factory bought the world Day-Glo reproductions of soup tins and Marilyn Monroe, as… Continue Reading →
The answer to your first question is ‘Created By The Gods’…. Forgive me if I’m wrong, my Polish isn’t what it used to be. This is a re-issue from 2012 & the bands one and only full length LP. Now,… Continue Reading →
These boys work fast it seems. Hot on the heels of 2013’s ‘Omen Ex Simulacra’ comes the latest instalment of disturbing, horrific death metal from the prolific US-based duo. Coming as it does barely 9 months after that most recent… Continue Reading →
Candles, skulls, magic circles and corpse painted figures are all present on the artwork of this 4 track EP along with a spiky logo naturally. Well it’s obvious that we are in for a dose of blasphemous black metal here!… Continue Reading →
There’s an old adage that you should never judge a book by its cover. Well, “never” is too strong a condition as far as I’m concerned. If the cover of the book has words like “Jeffrey Archer” or “Dan Brown”… Continue Reading →
Audrey Horne is a band that have split the opinion of some of my more extreme metal following friends, mourning as they do the fact that a band once formed of members of Enslaved, Gorgoroth and the like did not… Continue Reading →
I wasn’t so much as rather taken with Sturmtiger’s blistering take on blackened death metal on Atomic Hammer, as pulverised as it rolled over me unconcerned with what I thought. So, flattened but still enthusiastic I was really pleased when… Continue Reading →
Writing for Ave Noctum is never a chore. Sure on the odd occasion I get sent stuff that I would normally swerve like Neo in The Matrix dodges bullets but over the last few months it’s opened my ears to… Continue Reading →
A new filthy force emerging from the foggy forests of Finland (well they probably live somewhere quite respectable but it sounds good) are Oath. This duo has only been active since 2012 but have already accrued a couple of EP’s… Continue Reading →
This, Genius Ultor’s second album, was recorded in a mouldy pre-war house, reeking of “complete humiliation and degradation”. The band then added their contribution of “necrophobic atmosphere and paranoid unease”. This seems to be natural territory for Polish blackened death… Continue Reading →
Further enforcing the notion that the UK currently has one of the strongest black metal scenes in the world are Swansea-based trio Ghast. This band has failed to get the media attention they deserve with debut ‘May the Curse Bind’… Continue Reading →