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And so, the much-awaited final instalment in Blut Aus Nord’s ambitious ‘777’ triptych has finally arrived and hotly anticipated it has been chez-Allain. I’d felt for some time now that the band had been treading water a little since 2004’s… Continue Reading →
I think it’s safe to say that US band Hellwell like reading horror literature and pulp fiction. It’s also safe to say that Manilla Road fans will be hugely interested in this three piece as it is, basically, a Mark… Continue Reading →
Mexican black metal? Yeah I thought so, I was a little stumped thinking of examples too? It is not the place that one would first think of as being synonymous with the genre. Of course there are bands fromSouth Americawho… Continue Reading →
My immediate reaction on hearing this album, the second by Hell United, is that it is the essence of Polish blackened death metal. It has all the qualities – all-enveloping, heavy, dark, relentless and technical. No quarter is given. “Red… Continue Reading →
Anything new by US psyched out doomsters Orchid is always going to perk me up. Their debut EP Through The Devils Doorway hooked me, their debut full length Capricorn reeled me in and their set at Desertfest floored me. Now… Continue Reading →
The backlash that was bestowed upon Cryptopsy following “The Unspoken King”, especially the brutal lambasting of singer Matt McGachy, falls nothing short of shocking. As the old adage goes, change is inevitable; unless you play in a metal band, of… Continue Reading →
‘Age of Perversion’ is Offending’s second album, and exhibits a number of French musicians whose backgrounds are predominantly rooted in black metal. Coming from Deepsend though – the same label which recently introduced me to the enjoyable Deadly Remains –… Continue Reading →
This is a split release between death metal barbarians Deception and the evil black metal horde Demonic Slaughter, both fromPoland. Presented in a real nice fold out digipack, the two bands have a fair bit of history behind them, the… Continue Reading →
Subtlety, hidden meanings, ballads: Yeah that’s the red squishy mess left behind when Sturmtiger roll over those concepts. Look: They are called Sturmtiger, they have a member of Necrosadistic Goat Torture in their ranks, have a b&w picture of a… Continue Reading →
Some bands are just taken for granted these days. Some bands become so established, so familiar that they’re almost like part of the ‘listening furniture’ – an institution if you will – that, even if they’re universally acknowledged as providing… Continue Reading →
Chile’s Undercroft have led a long and distinguished career supporting bands like Morbid Angel, Therion and Suffocation but have remained firmly in the underground despite relocating first to Sweden and now Germany. It sounds like more bad luck than bad… Continue Reading →
This is the second album by Germany’s Freitod. “Regenjahre” (Rain Years) consists of 6 meaty chunks of dark-black metal and then an even meatier 12 minute track “Wenn Alles Zerbricht” (When Everything Collapses). I have listened to this album and… Continue Reading →