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Walkabout – Nicolas Roeg (Second Sight Films)

Ah what a film to watch on a sweltering day, the heat floods off the screen and the arid imagery is enough to leave you gasping whatever the weather. Walkabout is quite simply a classic and one of many from… Continue Reading →

Incantation – Sect Of Vile Divinities (Relapse)

I’m by no means an elitist, well at least not now. Once upon a time I was a total ‘death to false Metal’ devotee. I do still retain the thought that ‘trve’ music is probably some of the best and… Continue Reading →

Ages – Uncrown (Black Lodge Records)

The rather innocuous moniker exhibited by this Swedish melodic black metal outfit belies the majestic fluidity that sweeps over the listener with this second album. Information is scant it seems surrounding the Swedes but within the ranks of this outfit… Continue Reading →

Brimstone Coven – The Woes of a Mortal Earth (Ripple Music)

I have to admit that my first taste of Brimstone Coven was care of their 2015 belter ‘Black Magic’ (see Ave Noctum passim for my review), but that was enough for me to pick up their prior work, and also… Continue Reading →

Rites of Daath – Doom Spirit Emanation (Godz ov War Productions)

Rites of Daath, previously known as Cemetery Whore, are of Krakow, Poland. This is one of my favourite cities on earth. Not only is the eating some of the best in Poland (and therefore, the planet – top tip –… Continue Reading →

Elimination – Of Gods And Beasts (S/R)

Ipswich thrashers Elimination have charged back onto the UK Metal scene with a new line up for their latest release, the 6-track Ep “Of Gods And Beasts”, a release which features 3 studio recordings and 3 live tracks. For some… Continue Reading →

Garden Of Eyes – Altar Of Despair (Cryptic Blood / AHPN Records)

If you missed my last review of them, Garden Of Eyes is one of at least four projects that young UK one man metal machine Nattskog is producing. This is his very much old school, doom riddled filthy death metal… Continue Reading →

Blues Pills – Holy Moly! (Nuclear Blast)

I’m fairly lucky to have seen one of Blues Pills first UK shows, if not their very first, when in 2013 they played the Dingwalls in Camden third on the bill behind Scorpion Child and headliners Orchid (what a line-up… Continue Reading →

Toxik Death – Sepulchral Demons (High Roller Records)

Seventeen years since their inception Toxik Death are releasing their second album following 2014’s Speed Metal Hell. Their music is certainly a lot quicker and aggressive than their output! Although this five-piece are from Norway their sound has quite a bit of neighbours Sweden in it. Amidst the blackened thrash… Continue Reading →

Expander – Neuropunk Boostergang (Profound Lore)

This quartet from Austin Texas caught my attention with last album Endless Computer on Nuclear War Now in 2017. They had a mutoid, squat-Atompunk sound that twisted and turned all over the place and was quite a weird sounding trip… Continue Reading →

Xythlia – Immortality through Quantum Suicide (I, Voidhanger Records)

Promoted as “the perfect visionary soundtrack for … a brutal, mutant universe”, this album from US artist Nick Stanger promises an experimental and extreme metal experience. Extreme it is. Manic, screaming deathly outputs are matched with vocal roars and a… Continue Reading →

Eternal Rot – Putridarium (Godz ov War)

A shorty but goody for you all here. I’m a sucker for all things Polish, and in fairness Polish extreme music bands are among my favourites. I spent some time over there on holidays in the late 1990’s, and bought… Continue Reading →

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