Category ALBUM
This album seems to be about everyone else except the band themselves. Just because they’re French does not mean that they have to sound like Gojira or Dagoba, but with that image stored up, the comparison is then drawn with… Continue Reading →
Sometimes a band starts off well and goes down a path that seems correct at the time, but three albums down the line they start to sound constricted, trapped and a little unoriginal. That, for me, was Delain. Stuck with… Continue Reading →
Who would’ve thought when I woke up this morning that I’d end the day addicted to blackened d-beat crust. Christ, I didn’t even know what that was until lunch time. So here I am with a copy of Nux Vomica… Continue Reading →
Welcome to the night and all who dwell in it. I guess that could be the basic premise here but as the artwork shows night has not quite fallen yet and we are in that crepuscular void between light and… Continue Reading →
I’m in two minds about this. There are moments when the it’s just regular death metal and it’s pretty much a case of ‘nothing new here’ but pretty good nonetheless, then Pyrrhon go all Mr. Bungle on you and that’s… Continue Reading →
You have to admire the ambition in a project like Aeons Confer: with almost 80 minutes of fast, melodic and heavy metal (or ‘dark’ metal, as the band prefers) and six big hairy blokes from Hamburg involved – it’s a… Continue Reading →
If an Argentinian band had released “Hand of God?”, I’d have sensed irony. Pitch Black Process, formerly known as Affliction and in existence since 1999, are in fact from Turkey but with Swedish connections, notably Niclas Engelin of In Flames… Continue Reading →
The intro to this album is good, setting the scene for the opening title track which bursts into life with a good scathing riff. This Greek act has put out two albums previously and this one has a huge groove… Continue Reading →
Thy Worshipper are a Polish band with equal numbers of toes in the black, death and folk metal camps and a large number of line-up changes until we reach this, their second full length. It’s an odd album: Very nicely… Continue Reading →
On the same day that I received this album to review, I read in one of those quirky surveys you find in the Metro free newspaper that Hastings is the place in the UK where the residents are the most… Continue Reading →
What in the name of the patron saint of meth tweekers do we have here? Well I was expecting insanity when I cast my eyes over the band name and the Eastern religious iconography and font used on the garish… Continue Reading →
Dinner Music for the Gods. The very name conjures up images of Dionysian excess on Mount Olympus. Zeus and Poseidon hand out the olives whilst Apollo snogs a satyr behind the laurel wreath rack. Never mind what the fox would… Continue Reading →