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Solanum / Epi-Demic – Passages To Lunacy (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions)

As I’ve stated before I like split releases a lot and this one is damn decent with two bands from Canada demonstrating their flair for punishing thrash metal and crossover music that is equal to most underground releases being put… Continue Reading →

Enslaved – In Times (Nuclear Blast)

When it comes to product, the genre-hopping beast that is Enslaved rarely fail to deliver on quality. Over the years, in spite of their evolution from Norwegian extreme metal to blackened progressive rock, they have produced album after album rammed… Continue Reading →

Porta Nigra – Kaiserschnitt (Debemur Morti)

I absolutely loved 2012 release ‘Fin de Siècle’ from this wacked out decedent German dark metal duo. It delivered the most compulsive and memorable song of the year in the form of ‘Meglomaniac’, one listen to it and you were… Continue Reading →

Karyn Crisis’ Gospel Of The Witches – Salem’s Wounds (Century Media)

Gospel Of The Witches is the latest band from former Crisis and Ephel Duath vocalist Karyn Crisis, who along with husband (and Ephel Duath guitarist) Davide Tiso have created ‘Salem’s Wounds’, a fan-funded project that has been 5 years in… Continue Reading →

Opium Lord – The Calendrical Cycle: Eye of Earth (Candlelight)

Brummie five-piece Opium Lord gained huge recognition with their 2013 EP ‘The Calendrical Cycle – Prologue: The Healer’, managing to catch the attention of Candlelight who signed the band last summer, and it’s through them that the band release debut… Continue Reading →

Heavydeath – Eternal Sleepwalker (Svart)

Formed in 2013, Heavydeath was created with one refreshingly unpretentious objective: to create no frills “heavy death” music. And so far the Swedish trio – who boast a wealth of experience in more frantic bands including Runemagick, Sacrementum and Necrocurse… Continue Reading →

Sanctuary, Monument, Metasoma – London Underworld 3/3/15

What surprised the hell out of me was walking into the venue shortly before half past seven, only to find it very quiet and rather empty. At half past Metasoma took to the stage to warm up the venue and… Continue Reading →

Dunderbeist – Hyklere (Indie)

I suspect that this Norwegian band has slipped completely under the radar like a stealth bomber for most metal fans outside of their Norwegian homeland for at least their first three full lengths or at least until they signed to… Continue Reading →

Enforcer – From Beyond (Nuclear Blast)

Safe in the knowledge that Enforcer are a kick ass band and the quality of their releases seems to get better with each one recorded, I had very high hopes for their fourth effort ‘From Beyond’. It’s even better than… Continue Reading →

Crypt Sermon – Out of the Garden (Dark Descent)

Are you a fan of doom, but prefer the near operatic scope of Candlemass than the fist in your face snarl of Wino? Not fond of tales of depression, murder, and substance abuse, but happy to listen to songs with… Continue Reading →

Shallow Rivers – The Leaden Ghost (Bad Mood Man Music)

It’s cold out there. Everything about this second album and follow up to the impressive “Nihil Euphoria” (2013) from Russia’s Shallow Rivers suggests frost, hopelessness and unmitigated melancholy. So it is with the ominously titled “Of silent winds that whistle… Continue Reading →

Scarab – Serpents Of The Nile (ViciSolum)

I caught Scarab playing the Sophie stage at Bloodstock Open Air Festival in 2013 and they were one of the unknown bands to me that definitely turned out as one of the big surprises of the festival. They were like… Continue Reading →

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