Category ALBUM
If you are a regular reader of Ave Noctum, (and if not, why not?), you will like as not know Bergen as almost the epicentre of Black Metal, the city having spawned the likes of Immortal, Gorgoroth, Taake, and so… Continue Reading →
The offer here is straightforward: relentless thrash metal. The Canadians are now releasing their 3rd album in their 11 years of existence, add another 10 in their previous guise as Skull Hammer. The race is on. It’s hard, fast, unyielding… Continue Reading →
I guess with a combined running time of 75-minutes long-running Australian doomsters Mournful Congregation could have just about fitted their two part EP releases on one disc but what listener would have been able to endure it all in one… Continue Reading →
You may not yet have heard of RUÏM but when learning that this new project is a case of going “back to the black with Blasphemer”, no doubt your interests should be peaked. Of course since leaving the hallowed halls… Continue Reading →
Required philosophical musing opening: In the modern world, does the concept of a ‘side project’ even mean what it used to? I mean the black metal scene is practically built on side projects, same with death, grind etc. So is… Continue Reading →
So here we have so-called mystic prog metal with opera, jazz and of course metal, orchestral arrangements, a producer renowned for classical composition, culminating in an album with a “progressive doom opera style, adding modern elements to the symphonic metal… Continue Reading →
On paper, Chicagoan avantgarde sludge/post metal quartet Yakuza, (who lest we forget are not some johnny come lately outfit having been around for several iterations of the noise scene they were at the fulcrum of creating way back in 1999)… Continue Reading →
I have to admit that the cover art adorning this EP caught my eye, its disturbing imagery made me think about those petrified statues of Pompeii when Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. The way those people were caught in a… Continue Reading →
This is the debut album from the Turkish quintet comprising of Burak Tavus and Hamit Özmen on guitars, Lucy Ferra on vocals, Mettehan Özbek on bass and Serdar Karahasanoğlu on drums. And sadly that’s about as much info as can… Continue Reading →
With its eye catching photo cover of Brenda Lee Spencer, arrested after a particularly bad Monday in 1979 which saw her culling classmates at a high-school shooting, Formalist set us up for a particularly harrowing debut album ‘No One Will… Continue Reading →
Before I get into this review, I just want to be clear that this review is based on the HD version of Malivore that was uploaded to YouTube when the album was released. I did indeed get a download of… Continue Reading →
Icelandic Black metal is back with another epic soundscape of blackened majestic, thought-provoking, epic musical scores courtesy of composer, multi-instrumentalist and sole member of Oreida, Thor. ‘The Eternal’ is constructed of five grand and contemplative tracks, each one delivering the… Continue Reading →