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Croatian band Gothaurs Wrath are accredited as a black metal band. Having listened to their second full album “War for Heaven”, I’d suggest that they’ve moved on considerably from this description. Words I would use to describe this album are… Continue Reading →
In case you didn’t know, these Italians take their name from the ancient Egyptian temple complex near Luxor. Karnak have been in existence since 1997 so are not the straightforward Nile worshippers that you might innocently take them for. In… Continue Reading →
Through dark and tortured black metal, this four track ep deals with gnosis, sin and chaos. Well, this is France. What a lovely picture the duo that is Rotten Liver paint. Actually it’s all rather jolly as the first track… Continue Reading →
I have been following the work of Eibon La Furies pretty much since they were conceived on a dark eldritch night back in Lincolnshire in 2005. They are one of those bands with a profound English eccentricity about them musically… Continue Reading →
More ambient/noise at Ave Noctum? Indeed. At first unlikely bedfellows, the more you think on it, the smaller the step between a great deal of the atmospheric/depressive black metal and true dark ambient/noise. In fact when you think of artists… Continue Reading →
Shakespeare’s famous heroine Juliet Capulet asks in the infamous play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ “what is in a name?” – well if she were to ask this question to John Garcia and Brant Bjork she probably would have met her death… Continue Reading →
Broozer is a self-described ‘tough technical modern sludge’ act from Melbourne. Formed back in 2010, it seems that they have spent the last three years practising and perfecting the seven songs that would make up this, their debut release. What… Continue Reading →
A spell-binding introduction gives us a flavour of where we’re going. In fact we go to several different places. Mind Structure are from Ukraine and draw from USA and Scandinavia for their brand of highly technical melodic metal with hardcore… Continue Reading →
Every now and then a release arrives in my hands that is such a perfectly distilled slug of heavy metal it provokes a physical reaction. Heart beat quickening, sweaty palms, stupid grin on face… The overwhelming urge to get up,… Continue Reading →
You really cannot fault the band name can you, especially when it comes at a time when everything decent and catchy has been used. Beelzefuzz whose moniker puts a smile on my face every time I hear it have been… Continue Reading →
Hammer Persuasion – a nasty mugging or Ingrid Pitt making coercive suggestions? Apparently this is neither, but rather the debut album from a Rockhampton Queensland quartet. The logo and accompanying booklet have a charming childlike quality – this s not… Continue Reading →
Svart is a small Finnish label, that despite being independent, and from a country with a small population, is managing to produce some excellent albums of late. Even searching just the website you’re currently reading (go on, use the little… Continue Reading →