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From the Vastland is fundamentally a Norwegian black metal band whose music and lyrics are influenced by Persian history and mythology. Its members have associations with renowned bands including Horizon Ablaze, Gaahls Wyrd and 1349. From the Vastland has been… Continue Reading →
Fancy a Viennese waltz down the blue Danube? No, ok, well we can leave that to the tourists on those horrible cruise liners then. We are going much closer to the water itself here courtesy of Captain Marrock who is… Continue Reading →
From the school of blackened death metal come Ephialtes. “Melas Oneiros” is a debut album but there’s no shortage of experience in this band which is headed by Quazarre whose cv includes Devilish Impressions, Asgaard and Crionics. Menace lurks everywhere,… Continue Reading →
Coming from New Jersey Fit For An Autopsy have been going since 2008 with their debut album The Process Of Human Extermination gaining them some traction in the Deathcore scene in 2011. Since then they’ve dropped a whole host of… Continue Reading →
To say the announcement on the signing of Nachtmystium was met with howls of vitriol and derision by a significant amount of people is no overstatement. Perhaps the somewhat cynical and attention seeking way Prophecy Productions made it along with… Continue Reading →
There are, for a start, two things I find interesting about bizarre Finnish industrial metal band Turmion Kätilöt (basically currently MC Raaka Pee, RunQ, DQ, Shag-U, Bobby Undertaker and Master Bates…). The first is that I came across them 20… Continue Reading →
“Down there one can’t see anything” is what is written in the centre of my copy of this album. This is the gloomy world of Petrale, a one-man black metal project from Croatia. Petrale is prolific, having released an album… Continue Reading →
I seem to have a knack of picking up “controversial” bands for reviews recently. OK Schammasch have not got the same kinda traction as Escuela Grind when it comes to net gossip but I have read a fair few KVLT… Continue Reading →
Following hot off the heels and riding into battle, this Greek Heavy/Power metal band follow their debut album “Storming the Walls” with ‘Spirit Invictus’. I think with the vocal sound and phrasing and the powerful anthem driven heavy metal, it’s… Continue Reading →
Post-metal – like it or loathe it the genre is here to stay, and I for one am very pleased it exists, for it is essential to the evolution of metal as is needed in any other genre. Plus, it… Continue Reading →
For me, hearing the band name Loudblast takes me back to the 00s and the French metal magazines, in which they featured. In fact this death metal band has been releasing albums since 1987, and is now on its ninth…. Continue Reading →
So, I did not have a new The Gates of Slumber record on my year’s bingo card. A mere 13 years after their last studio album, the be-doomed ones have returned. I must confess to being really excited to hear… Continue Reading →