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Who doesn’t love a good surprise? I know I do. You, the debut album by new entity Johnny The Boy certainly provides one. Two central figures of Crippled Black Phoenix, Justin Greaves and Belinda Kordic, joined by Matthew Crawford on… Continue Reading →
This is part one of a somewhat unexpected mini-series of reviews I’m going to be working on this week and next, that is provisionally (and very much unofficially) titled Out of my Wheelhouse. This is because I have fairly wide-ranging… Continue Reading →
Unhallowed be thy name… especially as far as practitioners of black metal are concerned. This lot are relatively new, apparently forming in 2021 and with that in mind no surprise that this is their debut release. As for the players… Continue Reading →
Friday Part 1 Holding the inaugural event of this three day festival within the finery of Scarborough Spa is possibly the most unlikely of venues you could imagine, but was an absolute stroke of genius. The journey from West Yorkshire… Continue Reading →
Hurrah, it’s time to get bonkers from Bergen once more as carrion critters Vulture Industries return with album number five. I admit to having had a long lead time with this and played it to death as soon as I… Continue Reading →
The brief snippets I heard of this Australian band were enough for me to want to review this latest release for the site, before which I did a proper swing through their discography to get a feel for how the… Continue Reading →
Just two weeks ago I reviewed the impressive new offering from American/Greek Metal band Prydain featuring a certain Bob Katsionis on bass and additional guitars, a fortnight later the multi-instrumentalist turns up here on the keyboards for Italian Melodic Power… Continue Reading →
Right, just to set things up straight from the outset, the last Church Of Misery album was actually Thy Kingdom Scum in 2013. You may have seen another one called And Then There Were None, but frankly as far as… Continue Reading →
Bands with names like this I always check to see if there any other acts with the same name and was surprised to find out that there aren’t which is highly unusual given that most words and terms surrounding torture… Continue Reading →
We are back in the world of the wyrd wolves from Warsaw and our duo of Louve and Nidhogg show no signs of slowing down. This is their fourth release since 2020 and like its predecessors is no less non-conformist… Continue Reading →
Thy Catafalque, the project of Hungarian artist Tamás Kátai, first captured me with the 2011 album “Rengeteg”, since when each album has brought new delights and wonderments. Soaring blackened metal with folk, cosmic and jazz elements doesn’t cover adequately the… Continue Reading →
It’s only been just over a year since this black horde dropped second album Divinity’s Fall so it’s still nice and rotting in the memory. That doesn’t stop a highly enjoyable refresher course of it for purposes of compare and… Continue Reading →