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As a kid, I was pretty pleased to have my birthday on St George’s Day. The slayer of dragons is a pretty cool guy to share a day with when you are eight years old. Of course, I have since… Continue Reading →
Two years ago I received an album with sublime, orange artwork and music to make my ears bleed. The band: Holland’s Entrapment or, more precisely, Michel Jonker’s Entrapment. Predominantly a one-man project, he, with a little help from some friends… Continue Reading →
Without ado, Switzerland’s Scars Divide launch into their debut ep with heavy lashings of melody and a bit of djent. The movement is utterly infectious. Yet in spite of all this thrashing jollity, there is a warning in the lyrics:… Continue Reading →
Not too long ago, on these very pages, I reviewed a self titled release from France’s own Oruga, designed by the label to be a premonition of what was to come (see original review here: http://www.avenoctum.com/2013/12/oruga-oruga-apathia-records/). As a taster,… Continue Reading →
A split from two acts from Chile shows what is involved when playing truly vitriolic black metal that involves no pissing about with keyboards or silly arrangements, just a straight forward malevolent annihilation that begins with Hades Archer’s blackened thrash… Continue Reading →
German musician, Herbst, has created two of the most iconic albums in blackgaze music – ‘.neon’ and ‘Agape’ – both were collaborations with Alcest’s Neige and fans have been anxiously awaiting the product of Herbst’s solo effort, after the pair… Continue Reading →
‘Mysterious duo ‘. Oft used words but in this case well used as aside from the record label sheet and webpage, I could find very fuck all about them. They are apparently Russian, this is their debut EP and it… Continue Reading →
Vallenfyre’s debut ‘A Fragile King’ was one of my favourite albums of the past few years, although I wondered whether it would be best left as a standalone body of work. The songs that comprised it were born through grief… Continue Reading →
Minnesotans Blood And Sun may or may not like the description (I have no idea, but some people can be touchy about it), but to me we are very, very firmly in neo-folk territory here. A bit of Weh, a… Continue Reading →
Normally this bonehead bangs fast and furiously with kvlt black metal of death in very limited formats but with Landskap they have something quite different and have got their doom, psyche and rock head on. If you live in London… Continue Reading →
Defying are a 4 piece progressive metal band from Poland who formed in 2008 and “Nexus Artificial” is their first effort at a full length album after the 2010 “Portraits” Ep. What makes this release interesting is that it is… Continue Reading →
It starts with a lone clean guitar – plaintive, bleak, reflective. And then, the weight – crushing doom-laden chords, toms booming with cathedral levels of reverb, the melancholic essence of the initial refrain still intact. An incredible opening and over… Continue Reading →