Category ALBUM
This 30 minute EP follows two 2007 demos of black metal ambiance. What we’re promised from the German musician behind it is something raw and aggressive compared to the previous melancholic and atmospheric works. Sure enough, the five track work… Continue Reading →
I know that when I received this album to review that some of my colleagues at Ave Noctum refused to review it due to the duo who make up Hellvetron being affiliated with another active band called Nyogthaeblisz, whose background… Continue Reading →
From South American Hell –Medellin,Colombia– emerge the weirdly named quartet called King. Weird may not be the right word, but it’s the first that comes to mind. Adding the bizarre to the weirdo is the fact that they play an… Continue Reading →
Some time around 2007 you couldn’t go anywhere without some dude wearing a Municipal Waste shirt thinking he/she looked cool and sporting the latest in fashion metal as the band was everywhere, adorning front covers of mags and getting rave… Continue Reading →
History Of Guns are a band of somewhat eccentric oddballs who first caught my attention on Godreah Records ‘Contains No Holy Additives’ compilations as well as the label’s Hawkwind Tribute ‘Daze Of The Underground’ where they covered Angels / Magnu…. Continue Reading →
I would say here is something new and different from Aesthetic Death but frankly everything we get from this label is different and the acts they sign are all quite unique and at times unclassifiable. With Goatpsalm we take a… Continue Reading →
The slogan “Obsessed with death” is plastered across the sleeve of this album. This gives you a good idea what’s at the heart of this disc from US band Nocturnal Torment, whose members have strong links to Thanatopsis and Invasion…. Continue Reading →
A two-man outfit from Italy, Valkiria specialise in gothic rock/doom, with a light and airy Mediterranean feel worked in alongside the leaden gloom. They’ve borrowed heavily from classic Katatonia over their past full-lengths, and this influence is still very apparent… Continue Reading →
Once I managed to determine the band logo, which even with a degree in BM logography was a humdinger, I was slightly confused as I would normally have associated the name Avenger with some sort of NWOBHM band. I would… Continue Reading →
Amongst the usual stuff I think about, recently there has been the question as to what we actually mean by extreme metal. I wonder because it seems to have been reduced to “has been known to use ‘death’ vocals.” In… Continue Reading →
When a three piece band comes along with two bassists among its number, then you cannot expect anything remotely light or airy. The delivery of Finland’s Horse Latitudes is slow, doom-laden and an ode to the apocalypse. In a comparative… Continue Reading →
Ooh matron bare breasts on an album cover, that’s not going to go down well on the record shop shelves! Mind you who the hell buys their albums in the shops nowadays and it is no doubt an artistic statement… Continue Reading →