Category ALBUM
If you thought you had escaped from me wittering on about just how good the new Killing Joke album is, think again. The simple fact is that I only got it myself on release day and needed time to digest… Continue Reading →
Unleashed have been undergoing a strong resurgence since the release of 2006’s “Midvinterblot”, an album which saw them in particularly vital form. Each subsequent release has been an improvement on the former. Of course, there is a finite amount of… Continue Reading →
So Exumer has finally decided to dust off the denims and leathers and get back together and release a new album after thinking about it for a few years, well two of the original line up has anyway, namely Mem… Continue Reading →
Formed last year and featuring musicians from Immortal Rites, Dawn of Dreams and Apophis, these German’s have a passion for the great genre that is old school death metal. Obviously, modern champions like Entrails and genre defining bands like Nihilist… Continue Reading →
Although breaking our rules a tad and reviewing a single, how could we not when we get it sent to us on nice green vinyl and backed up on CD just in case the reviewer has no turntable? In this… Continue Reading →
Italian alternative crew L’Alba Di Morrigan have been stirring up interest ever since the release of their ‘Circle’ demo in 2009, and now finally they have finished their debut album. Drawing comparison with the likes of A Perfect Circle and… Continue Reading →
There is nothing hurried about this album from Portugal’s The Firstborn. “Lions Among Men” opens with the shaking of a tambourine, every 5-10 seconds and after about a minute some guitar harmonics and sustains start making a presence, at around… Continue Reading →
With a yo ho ho and a bottle of Schnapps the ORIGINAL pirate band are BACK for their fourteenth studio album ‘Shadowmaker’ – and they’re GERMAN! Jaaaaarrrr….. Little known in the UK they may be, but Running Wild have been… Continue Reading →
I actually enjoyed JFAC’s “Ruination” album from 2009, reviewed during the sites previous incarnation Metal Team UK. Whenever I say that I like JFAC I am usually laughed at which does astound me and whilst their live performances aren’t exactly… Continue Reading →
With a name that sounds like a Welsh marriage proposal, Llvme are actually from the Leonese region of Spainand their name is the regional word for fire. Purveyors of the finest Leonese folk doom, Llvme perform entirely in their regional… Continue Reading →
Formed after a chance meeting between David Grimoire and Adrian de Crow at a stage performance of Umberto Eco’s book “The Name Of The Rose” the two met up and decided to do a concept album based around the same… Continue Reading →
Referring to the fact that there are only four boats per week in winter from their native Isle of Eigg in the Hebrides, one of the band members of The Massacre Cave commented “if one is cancelled and we have… Continue Reading →