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Germany’s Dawn of Disease released a decent debut in the middle of 2011, an album that boasted Amon Amarth like riffing set against a Kataklysm style rhythm section. This sophomore effort follows the debut very closely but sees the band… Continue Reading →
Day Two: The second day in the desert and I wake without a hangover and convinced my beard is longer already. I am told it isn’t so I decide I must have a spirit beard and after breakfast allow myself… Continue Reading →
As if this was ever going to be rubbish. For my money the forerunners of the current proponents of UK Black Metal, Wodensthrone’s 2009 debut ‘Loss’ was something of a barnstormer, a sweeping, relentless, windswept attack of an album. Critics… Continue Reading →
A mystery band from London ‘The Mercy House, with hardly any information on how they became a band or anything on any demo’s beforehand I was quite intrigued to listen to these fella’s. Unfortunately the band were battling health issues… Continue Reading →
For me, with this album, Vorkreist have completely lost it. With ‘it’ I mean the vibe of it all, what made them stand-out, what made them interesting. The black metal aggression has been replaced with a polished modern death metal… Continue Reading →
Desertfest – London 6-8 April 2012 (Or ‘An Old Person Survives Three Days In The Desert) Day One: Despite being hardly adverse to the odd monumental riff and Spirit Caravan style fuzzed out bliss I kind of lost touch with that… Continue Reading →
French director Xavier Gens really caught my attention with his excellent piece of survival horror Frontier(s) 2007. This was a film that came seething out the underbelly of French new wave horror putting the country right on the map with… Continue Reading →
In the late 80s and early 90s crossover music sprang up all over the place and then died, at the time, once the bands realised that making actual thrash was better anyway or that true hardcore was a better way… Continue Reading →
The Wretched End started life in 2008 as a collaboration between Emperor/Zyklon’s Samoth, Cosmo of Mindgrinder and ex-Dark Funeral sticksman Nils Fjellström. Second full-length ‘Inroads’ is a very straightforward album, a mechanical mash-up of sharp and clinical blackened DM riffs… Continue Reading →
Kam Lee (Massacre etc) and Rogga Johansson (Paganizer/Ribspreader) are at it again. Their second release as a collective, and The Grotesquery bring back their horror death metal with a tale that picks up where their debut release left off. Again,… Continue Reading →
I shall start with a bit of history. If you want to read directly about “Simulacra”, please go to paragraph 4 as they say on forms. My first encounter with Devilish Impressions was on 13th June 2004. I met the… Continue Reading →
If you thought you had escaped from me wittering on about just how good the new Killing Joke album is, think again. The simple fact is that I only got it myself on release day and needed time to digest… Continue Reading →