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Stop. Vredehammer time. I was going to try and resist it, but sometimes a mental impulse is too damned strong to resist. Now, I don’t know about you, but I had no idea what a “Vrede” was, but thanks to… Continue Reading →
A substantial, well rounded Death Metal album is always a delight to listen to and Swiss five piece DarkRise’s latest album Fear, Hate and Corruption is exactly that. In a realm which has an ever increasing amount of sub genres,… Continue Reading →
Luxembourg is one of the smallest countries in Europe and has some good ties to Ave Noctum thanks to our European based reviewer. So at first I wondered why he hadn’t picked them up but remembering he prefers the blackened… Continue Reading →
At what stage does a band become an “institution”? I mean that word in the sense that a band becomes semi-legendary, and a real cornerstone in the genre or sub-genre that they inhabit? These Finns have been about since 1993,… Continue Reading →
Atmospheric doom quartet Soon is the brainchild of Stuart McLamb and drummer Thomas Simpson. As purveyors of indie pop, their main project being The Love Language, it’s an unusual sidestep but is a most welcome one and offers up listeners… Continue Reading →
Dperd are an enigma. In a time of internet saturation they almost don’t exist. I used a popular search engine that rhymes with floogle to research them and came up with nothing, nada . Just a suggestion that I meant… Continue Reading →
Razor sharp and deep into the abyss with its chasmic echoes, Suspiral set about representing chaos. They describe it as “the earthly manifestation of spiritual dimensions existing beyond Death”. “Poisonous Essence” is languid, extreme, at times frenetic and from a… Continue Reading →
Der Blutharsch And The Infinite Church Of The Leading Hand – Joyride & The Wolvennest Sessions (WKN)
It took me a while to work out what exactly I had here when these 2 discs turned up. I remembered Der Blutharsch vaguely from the late 90’s as a martial industrial outfit. Helmed by Austrian Albin Julius they were… Continue Reading →
My initial enthusiasm for this band was due to the fact that I thought this was the grinding terror UK version of Chestburster only to find that this is the Finnish version. A quick listen online gave me enough to… Continue Reading →
Ovtrenoir might be “post” metal but their debut release Eroded is as heavy as a constipated elephant turd wrapped in chainmail. I’ve never quite worked out what all this ‘post’ nonsense is about anyway and it always sounds a bit… Continue Reading →
This thirty three minute, six track blast comes from Switzerland’s Henriette B, whose metalcore melodeath is accredited as bridging the gap between In Flames and The Black Dahlia Murder. After an introduction suggesting epic intent, the EP gets underway with… Continue Reading →
RAVENSIRE from Portugal are an epic heavy metal band, enthralled in historical lyrical content and musically solid making sounds that are very heavy. There are a few bands out there in the world involved in this style, but few have… Continue Reading →