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Bands from Belarus have never failed me. Here’s another of the black metal kind. Judging by their previous release, nothingness and desolation is where they’re at. “Deathly ennui over the nothing” is how they describe it. Just the title “Irrigating… Continue Reading →
Although both Sweden and Holland have a history of producing black metal bands of the highest order, they might not necessarily seem like a comfortable pairing at first glance. However, what we have here is exactly that and mighty fine… Continue Reading →
Welcome to a day as dark as night but it is Belgian’s not Roman’s we are lending our ears to. With four albums to their name since 2005 this West Flanders trio were last referred to by us as “imperious… Continue Reading →
Old School Death Metal is the plat du jour at many an extremist fan’s table at the moment. It’s as if 1980’s Florida has descended on the world’s young in a flurry of hi-tops dragging a Swedish exchange student along… Continue Reading →
We all look for something in music, whether it is an escape, relaxation, or an exhilarating and uplifting effect – music is different things to different people at different points in time. The artform’s relevance is fluid and changes constantly… Continue Reading →
The return of the Vikings. King of Asgard are back with their fifth release, their last being the moody “:Taudr:” album, way back now in 2017. For those not in the know, the Kings play a brand of extreme metal… Continue Reading →
Another review, and yep, another rant about those damnably prolific Swedes! How the hell do they keep on nurturing such a massive underground scene with such a comparatively small population? Is it the long winter nights that force creativity to… Continue Reading →
In the absence of being able to tour off the back of their spectacular comeback album Forever Black, Cirith Ungol instead have taken a little trip back to their archives and recorded four old and oldish tracks that never appeared… Continue Reading →
Philadelphia’s Blazon Rite released ‘Dulce Beillum Inexpertis” last year and received much underground acclaim. Afflicted with the current pandemic and the restrictions it brought, studio time and rehearsals were hard to find. However, the band went with the DIY approach… Continue Reading →
I last covered Australian Progressive metal four piece Teramaze back in 2015 when they released “Her Halo”, an impressive progressive metal album which managed to stand out alongside other notable progressive metal releases that year (Queensrÿche, Symphony X, The Great… Continue Reading →
Finnish Juggernauts Sadistik Forest have delivered another crunching and bruising package in the form of 4 track EP, ‘Obscure Old Remains’, which will maul and batter you from the opening chords of ‘Mandragore’ to the closing echoes of ‘Waters Black’…. Continue Reading →
There are some bands that you just instantly fall in love with, such is the case for me and Impaled Nazarene. I heard their debut album Tol Cormpt Norz Norz Norz… pretty early on in my Extreme Metal journey. It… Continue Reading →