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Pete Woods What a year as far as music was concerned, even if everything else is pretty much shit it is the tonic that keeps us going through it all and there has been no shortage of choice. It… Continue Reading →
With a decade and a half under their shields Viking death metal band Obscurity have lived up to their name when it comes to me knowing the band which really is unusual considering this is the bands seventh full length… Continue Reading →
After giving Spectral Lore’s album ‘III’ the top spot in my end of year rankings for 2014, I was, as you might expect, pretty bloody delighted to hear recently that they were planning to release a split at some point… Continue Reading →
These Scandinavian purveyors of blackness have released a perplexing and intriguing debut of black metal that has tantalising tendrils of terror suckered to ambient like passages of more softer darkened art. The tone is bleak, barren within the guitar sound… Continue Reading →
This demo sees a meeting of minds from Italy and Egypt with Gray Ravenmoon providing the hateful vocal parts from the former and Void the desolate instrumental sections from the latter. Although only essentially two tracks there’s quite a lot… Continue Reading →
I am no stranger to the Hummus roster with the likes of Impure Wilhelmina, Coilguns, Red Kunz, NVRVD having releases in my collection, the label aims squarely at the experimental side of post rock or metal, whatever you want to… Continue Reading →
Grafvitnir are a black metal band in the grim, frostbitten and occult-laced Swedish tradition and this second outing commences like a howling, spirit-infested hurricane. In fact, speed and searing melody are pretty much a constant throughout as the band adheres… Continue Reading →
As some will be aware, Morbosidad is a cult black metal band which has been in existence since the early ‘90s. Despite this fact, and although I have had numerous opportunities to purchase their stuff from mail orders, this ‘Tortura’… Continue Reading →
It’s been some time since British Gothic rockers NFD released their last album ‘Deeper Visions’ way back in 2008 although rumblings in the form of 2013 EP ‘Reformations’ made a statement and showed us they were back. It would appear… Continue Reading →
It was a dark and funnily enough, not too cold night for autumn, so I’m certain people in the queue around the corner, with the rather strange police presence, weren’t hypothermic by the time they got to enter the venue… Continue Reading →
Whilst being nowhere near the likes of Nunslaughter in the ‘fuck me, how many releases? How am I gonna ever own all that?’ stakes, Finnish atmospheric doom / death titans Hooded Menace still have a respectable smattering of super-limited edition… Continue Reading →
Californian trio Bog Oak are a breath of fresh air for many reasons. For every band jumping on the occult doom bandwagon at the moment, very few manage to achieve it with a shred of originality; but Bog Oak’s blackened… Continue Reading →