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Resist The Ocean – In Death We Are All Equal (Boersma Records)

MetalCore is not my usual sub of the day. I managed to swerve the avalanche of bands that hit 20 years ago with only a few registering on my radar. This may have been snobbery on my part or possibly a… Continue Reading →

Wuodan’s Wunde – Es glimmt empor aus ewger Nacht (Altare Productions)

Austrian Black Metal band Wuodan’s Wunde have unleashed a smart looking debut album that comes adorned in intricate and inspiring artwork. Entitled ‘Es glimmt empor aus ewger Nacht’ which translates as ‘It glows up from eternal night’, features extracts of… Continue Reading →

Slegest – Avstand (Dark Essence)

Always a pleasure to see Stig Ese and his cohorts return. It’s been four years since Introvert where I noted that the heavy metal was definitely in the ascendancy over the black metal so I was interested to see if… Continue Reading →

Turmion Kätilöt – Omen X (Nuclear Blast)

I must start with a warning: if you prefer your music to be serious, Omen X is not the album for you. Turmion Kätilöt describe themselves as disco metal, but I think that eurodance industrial metal would be more accurate…. Continue Reading →

SKÁLD – Huldufólk (Universal)

Unless you are completely new to Nordic Folk, you will know that the genre’s best times are behind it. It reached its climax a few years ago and it stopped being nouvelle and wondrous before that. Today, even its best-known… Continue Reading →

Toehider – I Have Little or No Memory of These Memories (Bird’s Robe)

If you would like an audio depiction of a girl taking a 2TB usb stick off her keychain, and plugging it squarely into a swamp of a tiny planet, here’s the place to come. This ambitious work is a prog… Continue Reading →

Kohnerah – Ominous Ubiquitous (S/R)

Kansas City Death Metal quintet Kohnerah have been pretty silent in their seven years of existence. Three single releases are all that the band have put out thus far, but that has now changed. ‘Ominous Ubiquitous’ is their self-released debut… Continue Reading →

Screamer – Kingmaker (Steamhammer)

Album number five is ready and waiting, from this Swedish heavy metal juggernaut. I have followed their releases from the start, with each one there’s marked improvement. This one some might say is a cataclysmic shift in the quality stakes…. Continue Reading →

Dryad – The Abyssal Plain (Prosthetic Records)

Not only is this self-proclaiming black metal cacophony, but we’re told it is “punctuated by giallo horror movie inspired synth and foreboding atmosphere”. It’s all about what’s going in the ecosystems at the bottom of the ocean. “The Abyssal Plain”… Continue Reading →

Hostia – Nailed (Deformeathing Productions)

Polish pulverisers Hostia return with a third album containing 15 tracks of terrorizing savagery following on from the bands excellent EP ‘Resurrected Meat’ released in the middle of 2022 plus their exceptional sophomore ‘Carnivore Carnival’ released in 2020 which I… Continue Reading →

Phal:Angst – Whiteout (Noise Appeal)

Last album ‘Phase IV’ from this Viennese based project really seemed to speak to me with its mixture of post rock and industrial rooted numbers. They were all of a lengthy running time and sprawled like soundscapes over wide vistas…. Continue Reading →

Høstsol – Länge leve döden (Avantgarde)

Chances are you have not heard of Høstsol who have only just emerged out the Autumn Sun but the players within this new project are another matter. Some will no doubt be tagging this with the supergroup descriptor but I… Continue Reading →

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