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Titter ye not. We have all suffered the pestilence of Abysmal Winds at one time or another, that and the foul stench that accompanies them. At first glance one may assume that these three Swedes are still freshly soiling their… Continue Reading →
Machukha is Ukrainian for Stepmother and the band fuse together elements of Post Black Metal, Post Hardcore and Punk (which is from their blurb) to make a quite magnificent sound. I would add that there are elements of Neo Folk… Continue Reading →
Music that is loosely tagged as ‘Nordic-Folk’ has become quite the sprawling sub-genre and due to the rise in popularity of bands such as Heilung and Wardruna gained far more interest over recent years. Here we have the eleventh album… Continue Reading →
A second full length from this Austrian band whose previous album was full of intriguing dynamics and a plethora of mind bending genre fusions. The same applies here but to a lesser degree I felt when listening to it but… Continue Reading →
Three things that rarely – if ever – fail to at least pique my interest when it comes to music are, in now particular order: cool band name, cool concept, and cool album names. These weaknesses are how I originally… Continue Reading →
The journey of Ulcerate has been a fascinating one. The trio from New Zealand formed at the turn of the millennium, and can boast a consistent line-up since 2008s sophomore album “Everything Is Fire”. This stability has enabled the incremental… Continue Reading →
Possibly an unfamiliar name, but new British/Lithuanian black metal band Miško Boba were formed by Leviathan (the guy behind Written In Torment, all instruments in the studio but holding drumming duties live) and Kanopa, vocals and very particularly lyrics, as… Continue Reading →
This US band’s debut EP titled ‘The Killing Quartet Vol 1 – Reflection Of Murder’ typified just how brutal the brutal death metal genre can be when done right without resorting to overt technical wizardry just to plain show off… Continue Reading →
There have been moments in my cultural life that forever stand out as milestones; things that at the time changed the landscape of my interests and those of most of my friends. The 1984 debut novel by the brilliant David… Continue Reading →
Not so much time to kill but time to die as far as this album title is concerned, being the act of giving holy communion in the belief it will ease the passage from life to whatever waits on the… Continue Reading →
I bought Cadaverous Condition’s 2001 album “The Lesser Travelled Seas” after they impressed me live. It’s a good album with its grainy death metal and folksy moments, so it got another deserved listen before I got going with this one…. Continue Reading →
Here, for me at least, is today’s mystery band. There was a chance that I might have known this band as Shamash are from Malaysia, but I didn’t, and nor to my surprise did my well-connected Malaysian musician friend Leon… Continue Reading →