Category ALBUM
Artist: Corrosion of Conformity Title: Corrosion of Conformity Type: Album Label: Candlelight Records Righto, put any doubt from your mind, I’m an old bastard. Yep, I’m 42. Too old to review and too old for metal some may cry. Well,… Continue Reading →
Artist: Woods Of Ypres Title: Woods 5 Grey Skies And Electric Light Type: Album Label: Earache Recently I read some gumph on the NME website with a list of the 50 most depressing albums ever made. About a quarter… Continue Reading →
Artist: Xandria Title: Neverworld’s End Type: Album Label: Napalm Wow. Now this is not what I was expecting when I offered to take something from the growing Goth Frock pile. Wow. I mean rightly or wrongly I’d always considered Xandria… Continue Reading →
Artist: Eluveitie Title: Helvetios Type: Album Label: Nuclear Blast How can anyone not enjoy Eluveitie? Actually, I know someone who doesn’t because they don’t like bagpipes. There’s also a view that their previous album “Everything Remains as It Never Was”… Continue Reading →
Artist: El Caco Title: Hatred, Love & Diagrams Type: Album Label: Indie Recordings It has been a while since I have heard from this hard rocking eclectic crew from Norway, 2001’s ‘Viva’ album got personally played most of the year… Continue Reading →
Artist: Hail Spirit Noir Title: Pneuma Type: Album Label: Code 666 I had a strong inkling of what this would be like, having heard work by Transcending Bizarre?, two of whose members are the inspiration behind Hail Spirit Noir…. Continue Reading →
Artist: Pythia Title: The Serpent’s Curse Type: Album Label: Golden Axe I have been keeping my beady eye on Pythia since they formed back in 2009 and released their debut album ‘Beyond The Veiled Embrace.’ They had that spark… Continue Reading →
Artist: Sear Bliss Title: Eternal Recurrence Type: Album Label: Candlelight Records Sear Bliss have two obvious selling points; one being that they incorporate brass instruments into their sound which is still not that common in metal, and two that they… Continue Reading →
Artist: Alcest Title: Les Voyages De L’Ame Type: Album Label: Prophecy Productions Alcest are a band that divides opinions, and let’s face it; they are about as threatening as a sheepskin rug. They are the cuddly toy of the metal… Continue Reading →
Artist: Todesstoss Title: S/T and Sauglingshangwerk Aushilfsheins Type: 2x albums Label: Traumorgane Despite a string of past releases, German surrealist depressive black mentalists Todesstoss have previously slipped me by until these two albums landed in my post-box. The first… Continue Reading →