Category ALBUM
Solbrud’s debut was an atmospheric black metal gem and lauded as a welcome boost to Denmark’s scene which has always lived in the shadow of its two closest Scandinavian neighbours. Clearly a nation with a happier disposition is all I… Continue Reading →
My introduction to The King is Blind was their ‘Bleeding the Ascension’ demo which the band very kindly gave away free on their bandcamp page a few months ago, and I was sucked in by their threatening rumble from the… Continue Reading →
This is the Polish ‘Satanic dark metal’ Pandemonium from Poland, a long running band (formed in 1989) whose music I have become quite familiar with over my reviewing years. Although the last time I caught them it was a re-issue… Continue Reading →
Doom is one of the few metal subgenres that are genuinely timeless; the pioneers that first started the genre, Black Sabbath and Pentagram, are still just as essential today as they were all those decades ago when they first started… Continue Reading →
Formed in their native Mexico five years ago and currently residing in California, the barbarians of Funereus have been perfecting their craft with a few demos, EPs and splits, not to mention 2010’s debut album ‘Profane Rite of Morbid Glorification’…. Continue Reading →
We seem to get a split disc every couple of weeks or so and they are certainly reliable for discovering new bands, especially when it comes to the black metal side of things. This latest one via Immortal Frost Productions… Continue Reading →
Despite a collection of CDs that is threatening to collapse shelves and cave in the attic, and in a nod to the modern age, hard drives that are nearly maxed out, it is not possible even for a muso like… Continue Reading →
When the opening notes of second song ‘Master Of Shadows’ hits, the immediate question that gallops through your brain (probably on the road to Asa Bay) is “does the world need another Bathory covers band doing all original material?” I… Continue Reading →
The infinite joys of throwing Russian track titles at Google Translate and watching it explode is tempered somewhat by the bleak, monosyllables that emerge from it. Lumps of wording like “Stern Wind”, “Ice Storm, Ball Above Earth”, “In Black Sun… Continue Reading →
I think some of us take black metal from Ukraine a bit for granted. Sure it is an underground thing but many of us into the music look to the region for releases of a consistent high quality at least… Continue Reading →
Well as ‘Seduce Me Tonight’, the first track of this gnarly little album, hit me with all the subtlety of being punched by the Anti-Nowhere League’s logo powered by a Celtic Frost riff my first thought was “Midnight”. It’s not… Continue Reading →
The title of this album suggested that there was sophisticated intrigue or it was too clever for its own good. I missed the band’s first work, “The Perpetual Paradox”, so the only clues were going to be in the listening…. Continue Reading →