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It’s been just over a year since Static Abyss dropped debut splatter ‘Labyrinth Of Veins’ and shortly after that landed with a sickening thud we had ‘Morbidity Triumphant’ from macabre medical examiners Reifert and Wilkinson to contend with. The Autopsy… Continue Reading →
‘The Fire Still Burns Within Me’ starts with some malevolent and toxic spoken word before the guitar lead enters the fray and acts as a summoning to the rest of the barbaric and toxic raw black metal with which to… Continue Reading →
The fourth album by this German quintet features their new vocalist Lukas Nicolai, along with founding guitarist Nahuel Lozano and bassist Viktor Dick, and for their second outing drummer Danny Straßer and guitarist Marvin Kessler. I mistakenly assumed they were… Continue Reading →
A conundrum in three parts. When something is described as “Avant-Garde” alarm bells ring. Are there going to be nose flutes and field recordings? Ancient Sumerian death rites mixed with Russian Drum and Bass. Ah who am I kidding I… Continue Reading →
What is exactly is the relationship between the artist and the audience? Does either owe the other anything? When I was young and full of fire and self-righteous opinions, Cold Lake and One Second felt like betrayals. Of course they… Continue Reading →
Italian Progressive Symphonic Metal band Degrees Of Truth seem determined to take full advantage of their new home on Scarlet Records. After two previous albums (one in 2016 and another in 2019), they’ve re-energised themselves with a new vocalist and… Continue Reading →
Two stalwarts of the French-Canadian black metal scene comprise Sacrenoir. Amongst many other bands, one plays with Forteresse while the other has appeared for them. “Les revenants” means “people who return” and these people returning among the ruins is, I’m… Continue Reading →
Here we have the kings of monumental occult German doom apparently. Who crowned them or whether they seized the throne is something to consider but once we dip into their third album ‘Vama Marga’ a tantric term for the left… Continue Reading →
Chicago is the city that birthed electric blues but a group of young lads by the name of High Priest seem to have sought their inspirations from a different source who took those blues roots into far more ominous and… Continue Reading →
With a dense sound of a typical Running Wild release, Rage and Fire are similar in style to the likes of Manowar, the aforementioned (mid-Period), Ironsword and an easy lazy one, Manilla Road. So you have a flavour straight away…. Continue Reading →
A lot of the bands I listen to (and thus review) revel in making music that is best described using formulae such as “Band A + Band B x Genre X = ???” because, well, I like my crossover shit…. Continue Reading →
Surprisingly this Portuguese band has been around for over a decade but during that time have only released a couple of EPs in 2012 and 2014 before a lengthy spell of inactivity, only to resurface with this latest effort designated… Continue Reading →