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There is something about the album artwork by Samuel Nelson that fixed me about this sophomore by this French band. I’ve stared at it and analysed a number of times and I’ve even got it as my computer desktop image,… Continue Reading →
A new band from Sweden, a name you may have not heard of (yet) and a debut EP. You might be shrugging your shoulders and thinking “so what.” However, those behind this trio are far from new to the scene…. Continue Reading →
The Russian metal scene is always interesting, but I tend to associate it mostly with brutal death metal, and it is these death/black metal elements that I remember most clearly about Karcinoma’s 1998 debut ‘The Night… Apogee of Madness’ although… Continue Reading →
“Opus Ferox – The Great Escape” is the eighth album release from Loch Vostok. Andrew Doherty interviewed founder member Teddy Möller about the band, the latest album and future plans. AN: First of all, I appreciate you giving the time… Continue Reading →
Yet another project of Rogga Johansson this time in collaboration with The Master Butcher (Ronald Jimenez) of Morbid Stench from Costa Rica previous to which the duo has released an EP and one split (with Morbid Stench) in 2015 and… Continue Reading →
After reviewing last year’s EP, I was more than happy to take a listen to the new album and I’m glad to say it doesn’t disappoint. As it’s taken 25 years since Mordred last released an album, they decided not… Continue Reading →
Isolation, solitude, nostalgia and poeticism all meet headlong here over two lengthy tracks. Paolo Bruni is the person behind all artistic expressions on this release. He comes from Brazil and now resides in Scotland. This is possibly not the reason… Continue Reading →
Recently resurrected Russian label Wroth Emitter were created under the name Wroth Prod back in 1993 and have come back from the dead. Fittingly it is death that we look at here with three bands dishing up differing varieties on… Continue Reading →
The artwork of this album is very colourful and suggestive. Pictures of medieval warriors, lake landscapes and woodlands suggest something from Finland, as indeed does the album title, which in Finnish means “Return”. The artist behind this is in fact… Continue Reading →
If you don’t know whether to play in a hardcore, sludge or black metal style, the solution is simple: you play all three. That’s what Lithuanian band Erdve do. This is their second album release. The subject matter, which amounts… Continue Reading →
Been expectantly awaiting this, finally after three highly rated EP’s The Joy Thieves get round to their debut album. Since forming or should that be spawning into the multi-limbed industro-wrecking machine they are, this lot have certainly kept us on… Continue Reading →
In Greek mythology, Atropos is one of the three Fates, three sisters who enforce the destiny of mortals. Clotho spins the thread of life, Lachesis is responsible for measuring it while Atropos, the oldest of the Fates, chooses the manner… Continue Reading →