Category ALBUM
Although Swedes Stilla are a new proposition as a band, their members most certainly aren’t new to the scene. This is a new black metal project featuring members of Armagedda, Deranged and Bergraven, which embraces a fairly unique sound in… Continue Reading →
Back in the late-90s, a phrase would often crop up in reviews of black/death metal albums – ‘Dissection clone’. By and large, this was spot-on. In the wake of Dissection’s landmark second album ‘Storm of the Light’s Bane’, a whole… Continue Reading →
This is the second album by Australian prog rock band Manic Opera. The first was in 2002. Between 2006 and 2010, the band had a self-imposed gap. Maybe the effect of the time lapse prior to “All That Matters” would… Continue Reading →
Much as it may come as a surprise to some, there was a time when having a female singer didn’t automatically denote you as ‘Gothic Metal’. Not everyone had to sound like either Nightwish, Evanescence or Lacuna Coil (it was… Continue Reading →
The debut offering from the Swiss quartet out of Sursee is an impressive death/thrash album with plenty of groove and tempo changes to keep things dynamic and interesting. A nice solid groove opens “Captured” which steadily progresses over Benjamin Kottmann’s… Continue Reading →
Back in the day I went through a bit of a grumpy goth phase, with weekends spent at Slimelight and evening classes in pretentiousness and fawning about a bit. Here at Ave Noctum towers where we deal in the more… Continue Reading →
I had this album some time ago and on very first play my jaw dropped open and thunked on the floor like a lead weight. Sure I have always loved Rotting Christ from their early Mighty Contracts through to the… Continue Reading →
A barbarian winter out of sunny Oz was a bit of a long shot for a band I knew nothing of but, billed as epic doom and previously having had an album out on Shadow Kingdom I thought ‘give it… Continue Reading →
Darkrise were an unknown quantity to me before pressing play on their new release, even though ‘Realeyes’ is in fact the fourth full length album from this Swiss five piece since they formed back in the late 90s. Hell, I’ll… Continue Reading →
Chicago female fronted rockers ‘Hessler; haven’t given up on the scene yet. Having given them a so-so review last year, I was excited that they wanted me to receive and hear their second release ‘Comes with the Territory’ ‘Waste away’… Continue Reading →
Vreid have all the hallmarks of a band on the cusp of a big break and the attitude, talent and drive to back it up. Their catalogue is teeming with the kind of consistency that many other bands only dream… Continue Reading →
The title to this band’s second album is probably the strangest I have been confronted with in my time at Ave Noctum. Stranger still, however, is the history of the album. Originally released in 2010 as a limited cassette edition,… Continue Reading →