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Black metal has certainly made a huge impact on me during 2020, which maybe an indication of my overall mood at how it has gone. Pandemic or not the genre has produced some truly staggering albums a handful of which… Continue Reading →
And so in the blink of an eye, 2020 speedily crests the brow of December Hill and gambles it’s way, down into the inky green of the sea, to finally lay itself to rest in its own premediated, watery grave…. Continue Reading →
It is always good to continue reviewing a bands output when you covered their previous releases as I reviewed this French acts debut ‘Serpentine’ and the split with Bâ’a and Verfallen in 2017 and 2018 respectively. Both those releases were… Continue Reading →
Nuclear metal, metalpunk or whatever you want to call it, this is Children of Technology’s third album. Expect rebellion. Opening song “Soundtrack of No Future” has a crisp sound, a solid beat and some rousing rock n roll style guitar… Continue Reading →
Pete Woods (Editor) 2020 – annus pandemicus. You don’t really need it pointing out that this year has been a bit of a shit one and that’s putting in mildly. From when it emerged with an air of normality about… Continue Reading →
A collaborative sci-fi Drone metal album? Say what???! Away (Michel Langevin) of Voivod fame and Thisquietarmy (Eric Quach) have been secretly recording music together for some time. They have hours of the stuff apparently and this is phase 1. I have to say at first glance… Continue Reading →
“Old skull death metal” from France anyone? The EC Comics inspired artwork is enough to draw anyone into OSDM into the realms of Putrid Flesh and an inverted cross on a tombstone inside the cover with HM 2 written on… Continue Reading →
Listening to Akhyls is like clenching your teeth in the face of a howling ice storm. I mean it. After the rumbling, oddly unsettling intro ‘Somniloquy’ simply crashes over you, pulling you down into the storm of some truly harrowing… Continue Reading →
If the prelude to Ondskapts latest creation is not enough to create a demonic scene then have no idea what is. The prelude features all manner of haunting and terrorising soundscapes, ranging from chains and crashes resonating to chants from… Continue Reading →
It saddens me that people today wouldn’t know the difference between a VHS and Betamax cassette if it hit them square between the eyes. What a time they missed and the joy of collecting films by this clunky medium is… Continue Reading →
Imha Tarikat (Turkish for “Destruction Sect”) are a young Turkish-German black metal duo attempting something rather unusual – and succeeding. What do I mean by that? I’ll tell you in a bit. For starters I’d just like to say the… Continue Reading →
I have to admit, I thought this was the American (Vermont) doom band when I looked at our review list. This is a band from Finland and are classed as melodic heavy metal. There is a lot of folk influence… Continue Reading →