It figures that on their website Alkerdeel have posted an album preview to a visual scene from Belgian horror film Calvaire (reviewed elsewhere on this site). This Belgian lot have made a point of noting that this release is in… Continue Reading →
Or to give the preposterously entitled album it’s full name ‘This May Be The Reason The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing Cannot Be Killed By Conventional Weapons!’ With a title like that we really do need to… Continue Reading →
‘Spawning The Nephilim’ the 2009 debut album from Lord Mantis must have escaped me but obviously it must have had some good points to get the group signed from a more obscure label to Candlelight Records. The Chicago based band… Continue Reading →
Taking their name from a skeletal, flaming daemon from the D&D universe, New Jersey’s Immolith specialise in a hybrid of the old Norwegian and Swedish styles of BM, the songs forever tumbling into the abyss as they are dragged along… Continue Reading →
While I suspect many of our London readers had ventured into Camden to watch Alcest play to a sell-out crowd of beard-stroking, black-rimmed glasses wearing hipsters who read about them in the Guardian, I had to go one better. I… Continue Reading →
A gas masked psychopath on the front and zombie like nuns on the back means that this is about to be a full frontal tympanic membrane carnage. Meta-Stasis is composed of members from Ted Maul and Sikth. It is very… Continue Reading →
On Top are a US“ power trio” who will apparently be suitable for fans of Motley Crue, Dokken, Queensryche, WASP and Dio? A sweeping statement, and to my ears rather inaccurate! This is dirty rock n roll, something that has… Continue Reading →
Having looked at the origins of French genre cinema and seen that a proactive Gallic style in both sleaze and gore quickly emerged we are now heading to a time where any subtle sensibilities were dispatched with and a seriously… Continue Reading →
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