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It is easy to understand when hearing this album why Gloria Morti should have shared the stage with the likes of Behemoth and Zyklon. The music on “Lateral Constraint”, their fourth album, bears similarities to these bands. Not noteworthy for… Continue Reading →
“Boredom ruins my life” screams the message in the album’s notes. With their disparate styles, Netra seem to be aiming at dispelling the boredom while reflecting it at the same time with their depictions of “fading nature and urban depression”…. Continue Reading →
Within three minutes of the start of Hel, the third full length release from Italy’s Melencolia Estatica its pretty clear that the multi-instrumentalist behind it, a lady named Climaxia, isn’t going to make things easy on the listener. Obligatory tolling-bell-followed-by-wall-of-riff… Continue Reading →
Bloodbound have a few great albums in their arsenal, but when you call your new album ‘In the Name of Metal’, you better hope it lives up to the name with such a bold statement. Thankfully, I am happy to… Continue Reading →
As far as I can tell, and my German is surprisingly flakey given the number of German bands I listen to, Nashorn is the name of a fairly intimidating piece of anti-tank artillery from World War II. Now, if the… Continue Reading →
This two-track, Greek BM split opens with an epic, fifteen-minute piece by Spectral Lore, whose excellent, earthy-and-euphoric full-length ‘Sentinel’ it was recently my pleasure to review. New track ‘Duty’ is similarly powerful and dramatic, albeit with a lighter tone and… Continue Reading →
Perhaps I was in a weird mood the day I agreed to review this album, but it’s not a decision I regret. Having never heard of Between the Buried and Me, I went into this with an open mind. This… Continue Reading →
“Yurei returns with a work venturing further into the weird”. This work of unlimited psychological self-expression and arguable insanity from the Norwegian artist Bjeima introduces a “parade of Dali-like creatures of the night: twisted, progressive, Lynchian tracks with hectic Balkan-inspired… Continue Reading →
Iran, not the sort of place you would expect to find a black metal band hailing from is it? Looking on Metal Archives out of interest I see that Iran has 47 bands listed. To be honest even with a… Continue Reading →
What are the chances of that? No good metal gig around this neck of the woods for months and then two within days of each other: first Down, now Fear Factory. Although FF’s height of popularity was quite a while… Continue Reading →
Yes that date is indeed Halloween and what better night is there to go to a gig like this? I was lucky enough to catch Alien Sex Fiend a couple of years ago on this witching night and it is… Continue Reading →
Depopulate – Till Man Exists No More (Self Released) Infernal Death – Gniew (Pyscho Records) Infidel – Eviscerate Yourself (Old Temple Records) Masachist – Scorned (Selfmadegod Records) Our Editor chose to pass on four CDs to me during his recent… Continue Reading →