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The Hellacopters – Eyes of Oblivion (Nuclear Blast)

Addictive tunes, juicy riffs and captivating hooks: these are the promised features of this so-called “action rock” from Sweden. Add to this the corny, self-effacing name, and you’ve got this long-standing band’s eighth album. I never know how these “old”… Continue Reading →

BÂ’A – Egrégore (Osmose)

The flock is gathered once more, penned in waiting for the wolves to pounce and render flesh. The follow up to debut album ‘Deus qui non mentitur’, sees the French artists BÂ’A reflecting on good and evil and interpreting the… Continue Reading →

Redshark – Digital Race (Listenable Records)

This is actually the debut by curiously named Catalonia/Barcelona heavy/speed metal band Redshark. They formed in around 2012 and have a couple of EPs behind them but it looks like they had a couple of major line-up upheavals in 2016… Continue Reading →

Lucifer’s Children – Signs of Saturn (Fallen Temple)

The world of heavy metal, and in this case Doom, is truly an international beast.  From what many consider the formative days of Black Sabbath over half a century ago (I’ll let wiser heads than mine such as Andrew O’Neill… Continue Reading →

Interview – E-L-R

E-L-R are a Swiss band from Bern, playing quite an individual mixture of Doom, Shoegaze and Black Metal. Recently, Prophecy Productions have released Vexier, the band’s second album. Lush soundscapes, filled to the rim, taking the listener on a journey… Continue Reading →

Satan – Earth Infernal (Metal Blade)

As the world of gigs and tours slowly returns to something approaching normality after two years in suspended animation, where only the merest glimmer of life was to be seen via online shows from locked down studios, and so many… Continue Reading →

Falls Of Rauros – Key To A Vanishing Future (Eisenwald)

Well, this is fairly “nice” stuff from the seaside city of Portland, Maine. It brings visions of long dusty trails through the woods to a picturesque deserted beach. There might be a waterfall encountered along the way as that is… Continue Reading →

Pigments – Thought Forms (Cruel Nature Records)

I’m going to be a bit lazy and go straight to the artist’s own description: “Pigments is a mix of ambient, electronic and industrial soundscapes. Pigments uses a dark colour palette to create haunting, serene, strange sound art”. I first… Continue Reading →

Wardruna & Jo Quail- Manchester Albert Hall 18/3/22

Over recent years, Wardruna have grown from a very niche act into an international name regularly selling out large venues with their interpretation of Norse folk (a label which does not really do their music justice). Their music crosses many… Continue Reading →

Nite – Voices of the Kronian Moon (Season of Mist)

It’s a true statement that the San Francisco Bay Area is a base for strong, technical metal bands and here’s another in Nite. This is the band’s second album release. Blackened metal is how it’s described but the first thing… Continue Reading →

Necrom – All Paths Are Left Here (Osmose Productions)

Necrom are a somewhat unlikely Ukrainian supergroup, comprising members past and present of Nokturnal Mortum, Elderblood and Grave Circles to name but a few. They’ve undergone several line-up changes since their rather good 2019 demo, notably Roman Saenko left to… Continue Reading →

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