Category ALBUM
You have to laugh at the liner notes here, which say that with ten years of Darkthrone in the offing the label wanted to release a best of compilation but the band responded saying they would make a back-patch to… Continue Reading →
In my boggling mind, I imagined “Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow” to have something industrial, futuristic and perhaps bordering on the apocalyptic about it. Well, extreme metal it is from the French band with elements of the above. What I did hear… Continue Reading →
[Very strangely a second word doc turned up with this review and puzzled us a fair old bit. Sometimes the music we listen to does really get beneath the skin and does strange things to us poor writers and it… Continue Reading →
In case the name doesn’t give it away, ShEver are in fact an all female ensemble, although this does take a while to click from listening. What this is NOT is one of those irksome, cheesy and overly polite, plastic… Continue Reading →
Viking themed metal. It’s an interesting one, isn’t it? On the one hand there are some serious personalities and musicians indulging in Norse-worship; on the other, an abundance of exhibitionists. Thankfully, King of Asgard falls into the former category, with… Continue Reading →
Hailing from the frozen forests of Canada we have an artist with a Spellbook. This is a one man entity with everything played and vocalised by Luka Milojica and it states on the biog that themes are “magic, evil, nature… Continue Reading →
Linear Sphere set themselves the ambitious task of tracing mankind’s journey through the ages. Ambitious is a good way to describe “Manvantara”, the band’s carefully constructed second album. The opener “Origin” is much more than a scene setter and musically… Continue Reading →
Not so sure about not giving this album a self title I would have plumped for ‘Bastard.’ Unmothered – Bastard would be a perfect combo. So what exactly have we got here then? Well this is the first release from… Continue Reading →
The first thing that struck me about this release was the killer artwork, promising no-bullshit, old-school DM with a blackened edge. That’s not the full picture though: Embrional certainly sound like a product of their nativePoland, hammering the listener into… Continue Reading →
What we have here is the debut album of Detroit’s Coven (so yeah, not the occult rock Jinx-Coven) – otherwise also known as Coven 13. Self-released on vinyl in 1987 (under Crom Records moniker), the full-length never received particularly broad… Continue Reading →
No doubt if you are a fan you have been hearing that the new Nachtmystium album is a departure from the psychedelic strangeness of the two ‘Black Meddle’ discs and a return to ‘Instinct Decay,’ even a natural follow up… Continue Reading →
The Texan supergroup, Hellyeah, have been around for several years so we’re probably all up to speed by now with who they are and where they come from, so for the uninitated, I’ll be brief. They consist of members from… Continue Reading →