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One look at Khonsu’s Facebook page tells you a lot about what the band is likely to sound like, though nothing prepares you for the immense blockbuster compositions imagined and constructed by S Gronbech whose band this basically is, but… Continue Reading →
I was very happy to receive an invite to hear and review this album as it is quite the missing link in the artist’s repertoire and is considered a classic of Ukrainian Folk Pagan Metal. Of course Munruthel has been… Continue Reading →
Helping to permeate the heat of this disgusting American summer as of late has been France’s Ysengrin, who are apparently versed at the art of chilling bones through song. Please note the singular use of the word song here, as… Continue Reading →
With an unusual sounding band name comes an unusual album. I’d seen this second album from the French band described as “melodic death metal” but this is much more than that. There’s a bit of everything here. The sound is… Continue Reading →
I have not had the pleasure of hearing Detrimentum’s debut on Grindethic but by all accounts it appears the band has slimmed down to a trio recruiting Anaal Nathrakh’s live drummer Steve Powell to pound the shit out of you…. Continue Reading →
Finnish folk metal titans are at it again, Korpiklaani ‘The Clan Of The Wilderness’ are now on their eighth album release ‘Manala (Underworld)’; after the spectacular Ukon Wacka I’m hoping for something special. Beginning with the track ‘Kunnia’ with some… Continue Reading →
Taking their name from an H.P. Lovecraft fictional city and looking at the cover (brilliantly visualised by Seth Siron Anton) and title maybe a bit of Clive Barker too, I was intrigued to hear what this band sounded like. The… Continue Reading →
Woah, a Baroness double album. Is that the sound of music aficionados throughout the land having minor orgasms at the mere thought? Well, firstly if you really are a music aficionado then let’s not pretend you are in the right… Continue Reading →
Iceland’s Kontinuum are an interesting band, starting in 2001 as an experimental metal project mixing doom, punk and dark atmospheric metal. The project expanded in 2010, and with the additional of a musician from a hardcore band and the recognition… Continue Reading →
More welcome re-issues from Peaceville here and I was stoked to receive these as had not heard them for a long time. Neptune Towers is the work of Fenriz of Darkthrone and shows him experimenting in a very different style… Continue Reading →
After a flurry of releases in the late 90s Greek melodic death metal band Dark Vision originally had a more blackened sound apparently, but their slapdash release rate has meant only one full length in 2002 and three EPs since,… Continue Reading →
The best southern stoner doom is intense in a way that makes some death metal bands sound like a Sunday afternoon spent on thebowling greenwith your grandparents. It feels like the heaviest of prog metal bands has been taken over… Continue Reading →