Category ALBUM
1978 Notting Hill a cosmopolitan seething underbelly of life, which I remember being walked down around that time by my parents at the age of nine and seeing my first real punks. Whilst most people wanted to be a footballer… Continue Reading →
Planets on album covers. They are becoming as familiar as bands labelling themselves “progressive” to mean forward-thinking rather than the retro-minded souls that you might expect them to be. Houston’s Oceans Of Slumber mean it in the sense that they… Continue Reading →
There’s a child-like innocence, it’s 4 o’clock in the morning and it sounds like the ghosts are out there. It’s sinister and suggestion is of nightmares. So begins this debut album from Belgium’s Dyscordia. An explosion occurs and we’re confronted… Continue Reading →
China. Not the place you immediately think of for heavy metal, let alone Black Metal. Unless of course you have already made the acquaintance of marvelous Chinese Mongolian pagan metal horde Tengger Cavalry. In which case, why not? History and… Continue Reading →
One of the few bands toiling away incessantly whilst flying the flag for British Metal around the globe are Northampton’s Sacred Mother Tongue. Out of The Darkness builds nicely from the groundwork done on their debut full-length The Ruin Of… Continue Reading →
I’ve heard some excellent EPs over recent months and here’s another one. Forlorn Chambers is a young band from Finland that superbly brings together several styles that sounds like the work of some very inspired individuals. Death metal vocals, black… Continue Reading →
Although I write this on April 1st it is no joke and it is not the work of a fool either. With bands as varied as Finntroll to Trollfest and of course Arckanum it is a shame that none have… Continue Reading →
For those of a djenty disposition, here’s Benea Reach from Norway. This collection of ten wide-reaching and substantial chunks makes up their third album release. Let me say now that Benea Reach not a version of Uneven Structure or Vildjharta…. Continue Reading →
Bit of a tall order this: An Orthodox double CD of odds n sods…er….’rareties, covers and demos’ when I only just made their acquaintance with Baal. Still, Baal was a fine piece of doomed, sludgy work so I hoped this… Continue Reading →
The debut album from Canadian progressive metallers Anciients is likely to draw many comparisons to the likes of Opeth and Mastodon and whilst the latter is quite apt, the only relation to Opeth that this band has is their love… Continue Reading →
Last years ‘Deathevokation’ debut from German death metallers Revel In Flesh was a cool effort in the Swedeath styled sound. Far from them being overtly observed as a tribute band, Revel In Flesh have a modern momentum based on a… Continue Reading →
With a name like This Misery Garden you know you’re not in for a rib-tickling laugh-fest, but which particular area of musical misery do this Swiss Metal band occupy on their second release? From the outset a heavy nod towards… Continue Reading →