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Horizon Ignited – Dying Lands (Nuclear Blast)

A “musical journey through deep valleys, high hills and dark forests” is what’s promised. Well, Horizon Ignited are from Finland. Claimed to be the new pretenders in the melodic death metal scene, this is their second album release. The problem… Continue Reading →

Entrails – An Eternal Time Of Decay (Hammerheart Records)

There were a couple of bands called Entrails in Sweden back in the early 90s during the days when the ‘Swedeath’ sound was craved for and opposed the more clinical cleaner sound that was emanating from Morrisound Studios around the… Continue Reading →

Knoll – Metempiric (S/R)

A couple of days before this appeared on the new releases list from Ave Noctum towers I read an article online featuring Knoll. It was one of those ones to watch or get your ears round this shit kind of affairs from either… Continue Reading →

Vidres A La Sang – Fragments de l’esdevenir (Abstract Emotions)

I have to admit that I felt slightly underwhelmed on first perusal of this album, the fifth from Catalans Vidres A La Sang and second since they came back from a ten-year hiatus. But the five songs here should probably… Continue Reading →

Saor – Origins (Season of Mist)

Saor is a Gaelic word meaning free or unconstrained. Saor is also a one man band flying the flag for Scottish inspired blackened folk metal. The concept for heritage and folk influenced heavy music has been quite noticeable among Nordic… Continue Reading →

Volcandra – Border World (Prosthetic Records)

The new EP by Volcandra has me excited because I get to talk about one of my favorite things: videogames. When I first listened to Border World, I thought it was alright. I was unfamiliar with the name but I… Continue Reading →

Hellfire Deathcult – Al Nombre De La Muerte (Helter Skelter / Regain)

Lingering around the review list and casting a filthy miasma this US based power trio were crying out ‘In The Name Of Death’ for some coverage. Noting that they are described as playing a form of ‘blackgrind’ ala war metal… Continue Reading →

Paganizer – Beyond The Macabre (Transcending Obscurity)

Four-piece deathmongers Paganizer seem to have been around for eternity and whilst the band has existed under this moniker since about 1999 it feels like they have been around since death metal emerged in the mid-80s. However, one thing is… Continue Reading →

Hats Barn – Y.a.HW.e.H (Osmose)

After having just covered the lunacy of Horns and Hooves for another publication here comes another bunch of mad hatters, well and truly on the lunatic side of black metal. Having been active since 2005 one has to first address… Continue Reading →

Sacral Night – Le Diadème d’Argent (No Remorse Records)

This is the second album from this French band, who quote stylistic elements of King Diamond, In Solitude, Dissection and Tribulation in their work. I didn’t know the band and wasn’t expecting the expansive prog-power metal that I heard on… Continue Reading →

Final Light – Final Light (Red Creek)

I admit I jumped on this when it showed up: Billed as a one-time only project, this is Perturbator collaborating with Cult Of Luna’s Johannes Persson which to me just sounded potentially brilliant. So, not sure what it would be… Continue Reading →

Khold – Svartsyn (Soulseller Records)

Khold are one of these Norwegian black metal bands who knowingly or not advanced the genre in the 00s. Continuing the tradition of utterly raw and desolate black metal, elements of persistent melody supplemented the bleakness and moved away from… Continue Reading →

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