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Well, this is a nice surprise. Switzerland gave us some pretty extreme metal in the 80’s, Messiah were very much a part of that with their death/thrash combo. In itself at the time, there wasn’t so much of this style… Continue Reading →
Hræ is a one-man Icelandic wrecking machine and its creator, I, has launched an apocalyptic tirade onto the black metal landscape with his premier opus ‘Þar Sem Skepnur Reika’, a monumental complex beast of a release. The album has a… Continue Reading →
Unholy levitating black monks Batman, what on earth is this? Well it certainly looks rather splendid turning up here on 180g vinyl and I prepared for a lesson in grim one-man black metal but one should never judge anything by… Continue Reading →
All hail the gods of old! I cry as I read through and research occult material from LaVey to Crowley and beyond. I love it all, it’s fascinating, and a lot of it tends to get rooted in ancient religions… Continue Reading →
Is it something in the French DNA that makes French extreme metal bands produce albums that go off at a tangent, it doesn’t seem to matter what genre they indulge within either as Putrid Offal’s deathgrind obliteration will certainly raise… Continue Reading →
There is something formidable about a band that’s able to reinvent one of its core attributes and still be completely recognisable. For New York’s industrial punks, Uniform, this reinvention manifests itself in their percussion; previous albums have relied on a… Continue Reading →
I’m late reviewing this. Apologies. It somehow got drowned in the background noise of these tumultuous times. But luckily the editor keeps track of everything and gave me a nudge, so here we are. Over the Voids… (no, that’s not… Continue Reading →
Usually you come to Ave Noctum for a music review and some witty or contextual banter within the words on this website, but this time round, you can add in a crash course in mythology and demonology! Lilith is the… Continue Reading →
Well, you should certainly recognise the artwork adorning the cover of this but what is that indecipherable band logo? Xasraug, right, ok. Now what about Indricothere the musician, surely not a hornless rhinoceros making all this noise? So, behind that… Continue Reading →
One look at the line up within this new Spanish technical death metal act and you see a wealth of experience honed to slaughterous surgical perfection within the bludgeoning realms of Arthropodal Humanicide, Ineffable Demise, Avgrunn and Fall Of Mankind… Continue Reading →
Okay, let’s address the elephant in the room. Ihsahn, of course, formed and fronted Norwegian black metal icons, Emperor. They need no further introduction. However, since 2006 Ihsahn has focussed his attention on his solo career, and although he teased… Continue Reading →
Every now and then a band comes along who completely shake the scene. Today we look at a band taking the Death Metal world by storm, but more of them in a moment. Essentially our band today are nothing new,… Continue Reading →