Category ALBUM
Now THIS is how you do an Epic Metal album. There has been a simmering sense of anticipation surrounding this Bavarian 5-piece for a good few years now – 2010’s ‘The Golden Bough’ and their Pnakotic Demos certainly caused something… Continue Reading →
As the owner of two of Endstille’s previous seven albums, all I expected from these Germans was black metal warfare. Nothing I’ve ever heard from them has been less than a total all-out assault. “Kapitulation 2013” is no different An… Continue Reading →
Remember when life was simple? Remember when heavy metal was just, well, heavy metal? No internet but we had tape trading, Shades Records, Mega-Metal Kerrang, Sounds, bullet belts and pints of snakebite on a Friday night down Kings Nightclub in… Continue Reading →
This German death metal machine celebrate 20 years of existence with this effort ‘Prey For Your Gods’, a remarkable feat in this day and age but also a travesty when you hear bands that are as good as this laying… Continue Reading →
Corrections House is a consortium of members from sludge and post-metal bands Minsk, Eyehategod and Neurosis amongst others. Drum Programming, sound distortions and a mix of urban and industrial atmospheres can be found on this heavy work, which can be… Continue Reading →
These days I’m not surprised when another funeral doom band I don’t know crosses my path. They secrete themselves in quiet corners and like ghosts they vanish when you search for them. Publicity shy often, deeply personal invariably, they can… Continue Reading →
I caught the Fenriz approved Irish band Zom recently at Live Evil Festival and was pretty much blown away by their on stage presence and sound. They conjured up a fearsome brand of occult death metal that reminded a lot… Continue Reading →
Hang on to your hats and britches and whatever the hell else you have not got battened down against this upcoming shitstorm. It’s a wild ride and a half and even if you survive it without melting down you may… Continue Reading →
On the surface, Italy’s Tragodia seemed easy enough to pigeon-hole. Power Metal in attitude with Progressive elements. Prog/Power. And yes, the opening track fits nicely into the niche. But as the album continues it becomes evident that they aren’t really… Continue Reading →
Since Stryper’s return with 2005’s ‘Reborn’ then the subsequent and much improved ‘Murder By Pride’ full length (their last effort ‘Second Coming’ was re-recordings with only 2 new tracks and the one before that a complete covers album) 2009, people… Continue Reading →
It’s been a few years since I caught up with Kataklysm, since 2004’s ‘Serenity In Fire’ in fact, although that’s not been a conscious decision to avoid them, just one of those cases where there are so many bands to… Continue Reading →
Dark Melancholic Metal from Germany – and the band’s debut no less! It wasn’t so long ago that Finland had the monopoly on Dark Metal, and sure the opening track does show that Embercrow have indeed, at some point, been… Continue Reading →