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There’s competition out there tonight. Over in Hitchin there’s “Extremity” featuring Must Kill and others. Elsewhere Enslaved, Swallow the Sun and Nordic Giants are scheduled to put in appearances according to the listings (most cancelled sadly Ed), and Grimsby would… Continue Reading →
Fairy tale may be going a little too far but the journey of Bloodywood would make an awesome film. There is already a documentary “Raj Against the Machine” which you can watch on YouTube which depicts the bands story up to their… Continue Reading →
This Swiss band have three previous full-length releases behind them. Categorized as traditional heavy metal, we all know how vast that could turn out to be. Their two previous releases were more in the field of European power metal. Upon… Continue Reading →
Time to lay the dead to rest and what better way to do it than via the medium of Finnish Funeral Doom? Doing the graveside duties here we have a true apostle of the scene, Mikko Lehto whose name should… Continue Reading →
‘Acts Of God’ starts with a brief intro track, ‘Abandoned’, which is delivered with a sultry, moody doodle before more six strings join the fray and almost tango in unison with the established musical score, creating a foreboding and atmospheric… Continue Reading →
Music that strives to incorporate authentic elements from its place of origin has a special appeal, because it can teach you about history, culture and customs, regional tunes and instruments in an effortless and casual kind of way. At its… Continue Reading →
Going in for albums such as today’s record is always quite a funny experience. In part I’m holding on to the days of constantly discovering top tier Death Metal. On the other hand I’m just going in for blind Extreme… Continue Reading →
It’s odd. Blame the plague but I realised when I got this that I hadn’t heard anything from this atmospheric UKBM band for a couple of years and from what I thought was just a diversification from their sound on… Continue Reading →
Written during a time when vocalist Johannes Perrson was exploring the remote areas of northern Sweden, the aptly named ‘The Long Road North’ serves to bridge the gap between 2019’s ‘A Dawn to Fear’ and last year’s EP ‘The Raging… Continue Reading →
There are many things I think about when hearing this band’s name but “intelligent structures” is right up there. I can entirely understand why comparisons might be made with Katatonia, Anathema and Amorphis because this is a band which doesn’t… Continue Reading →
This is Veonity’s fifth album (their debut emerging back in 2015 – and impressively in the Metal world with the same line-up!) and their second in their new home of Scarlet Records, enabling the band and their polished, expertly executed… Continue Reading →
It’s time to pop down a doomy, dark-jazz rabbit-hole courtesy of German expressionists Taumel. This is the second part of their Traum series and follows on, in pretty much every sense from first part ‘There Is No Time To Run… Continue Reading →