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As you can imagine there are plenty of bands around the world with the Torment moniker as this French act is one of over 30 just in the metal genre. The word Torment lends itself so well to producing good… Continue Reading →
Deathcore, like it or loathe it it’s surely here to stay. I have a divided opinion on the genre myself, is it good? I’m not sure. I know for a fact that there are some killer albums in the genre… Continue Reading →
From the prog stable of Layered Reality Productions comes this fifth album by Italian quintet Soul Secret. The band’s keyboard player made an interesting observation when talking about the theme to explain “Blue Light Cage: “People think they are actively… Continue Reading →
Considering the resounding success of 2017’s ‘Heartless’ and its soaring explorations of more progressive territory, upon first listen, ‘Forgotten Days’ seems like a huge step backwards and doesn’t quite make the impact you’d expect it to. 2020 has been far… Continue Reading →
If I was a Bond villain looking to hold the world to ransom by destabilising the Black Metal community (unlikely but stay with me here), my nefarious plot would involve removing the letter “v” from all keyboards being manufactured. Imagine the consternation… Continue Reading →
Forming in 2013 one has to wonder how on earth it has taken this three-piece German / Greek entity a whole seven years to release their debut EP. Maybe perfectionism has hindered it all, maybe they have been busy exalting… Continue Reading →
When Swedish black metal act Mörk Gryning folded back in 2005 I was massively disappointed, and I mean that. I felt betrayed that a band I had followed since their debut had decided to give up despite releasing four exceptional… Continue Reading →
Being a klutz who only skim reads most PR blurbs I was completely unaware until after listening to this album half a dozen times or more that it is one of the projects of maverick musician Maurice De Jong of… Continue Reading →
Despite pushing out a couple of demos in the late noughties, it wasn’t until 2017 that Prometheus birthed a full album. Rather than steal fire from the gods, this particular Prometheus borrow contemporary dense atmospherics from Cruciamentum et al, melding… Continue Reading →
If you’re not intimately familiar with Armored Saint, considered by many in the know as a band that should have been far more massive than they are, let me briefly educate whilst I simultaneously indulge in a bit of muso… Continue Reading →
Any album from Finnish melodic death-thrashers Mors Principium Est is of great interest. This is album number 7 (no, I hear you say) but whilst the title may not be exciting, the prospect of listening to it is. It’s amazing… Continue Reading →
You could throw a bowling ball into a forest and get a complete strike as it hurtles through the trees knocking one-man black metal outfits over like ten pins. What about those who play thrash though and go it alone?… Continue Reading →