Category ALBUM
It’s been just over a year since last album from Varg Vikernes dropped and ‘Sôl austan, Mâni vestan’ made his intentions quite clear that he has long moved away from the infamous black metal origins that along with his well-documented… Continue Reading →
If you’re a long term fan of Heavy Metal, there’s a good chance that the Cloven Hoof name is one that you will remember harking back to the late seventies, early eighties surge of fresh young bands from the UK… Continue Reading →
Serpentine path are a new force to be reckoned with in the doom scene. Featuring members of Unearthly Trance and one of the founding members of Electric Wizard, they are a doom super-group in all but name really. After delivering… Continue Reading →
“I will touch the sky, spread my wings” is a lyric from this album’s title track which sums up where this band come from, musically speaking. Slightly clichéd but uplifting, Etta Zero’s songs are pop-orientated in structure, but with strong… Continue Reading →
Sometimes discovering a funeral doom band is a little bit like stumbling into someone’s dingy, all but forgotten dwelling. A dust-filled, grainy backroom with four or five huddled bodies, solemn faces and pitted instruments making their way to some sonic… Continue Reading →
Formed in Birmingham UK 1988 by Justin Broadrick and C.G. Green and innovators of industrial metal, Godflesh spawned some seminal records including six excellent albums before combusting in 2002 leaving a vacuum in their wake. Broadrick went on to carry… Continue Reading →
There’s no denying the amazing impact and legacy Angela Gossow gave to the Metal world by rising to the challenge and seizing with angry clenched fists the opportunity to front Arch Enemy. She is and was a testament to… Continue Reading →
“It’s like village music” was the comment from the other end of the room where I was listening to this album. For sure “La Pèira Negra” sounds like a group of people have gathered with their multitude of mediaeval and… Continue Reading →
The Norwegians may have got there first and the French carry the banner for the most adventurous and bizarre, but the Greeks, well, they just seem to do it better than anyone else. Exhibit A: Akrotheism, who may not be… Continue Reading →
Daemonheim are a new name to me and this is only their second album, but many a gem has been discovered like this etc etc. Apparently these Germans peddle a sound blending black, death, folk and ‘even non metal genres’… Continue Reading →
With a title that owes more to a university thesis than an album of music, October File make a welcome return with their first offering since 2010. As ever they remain difficult to pigeonhole when it comes to their musical… Continue Reading →
Woah, New Orleans, you really are spoiling us this year – Down, Crowbar and Eyehategod have each put out their respective releases following varying hiatuses and the world might just implode under the weight of all those riffs. Most surprising… Continue Reading →