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Finlandia, oh how you are spoiling us. Having just about recovered from the excellent new Swallow The Sun album in February, barely a breath can be drawn before more atmospheric gloom and doom is served up by Barren Earth, who… Continue Reading →
‘It’s not metal!!!’ – a familiar cry from the more die-hard amongst the extreme metal fraternity when confronted with something that diverges more than an iota from genre templates laid down decades ago. With the levels of experimentation and cross-pollination… Continue Reading →
With the demise of a couple of big bands Vinny Appice (Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell, Dio, Ozzy) and Rex Brown (Pantera, Down) have teamed up with a killer Vocalist Dew Bragg and guitarist Mark Savon, both of whom have… Continue Reading →
Inverticrux used to be called Vintage Flesh, whose 2011 album Hour of the Night Gaunts I previously reviewed (here: http://www.metalteamuk.net/june11reviews/cdreviews-vintage.htm.) So in a sense you can consider this a sequel, and as with every sequel, I (the creator of the review), am convinced it’s ‘better… Continue Reading →
While the album itself isn’t bad at all, it’s more of a rock affair than a metal album. That said, they do have some really heavy riffs in here, but I guess the mid-tempo pace they employ and Keld’s bitter/sweet… Continue Reading →
Voidhanger is the latest project of Warcrimer, frontman of Polish black death protagonists Infernal War. Considering the lack of any solid output from the latter in the past five years, (save for a split with Kriegsmachine in 2010), it’s far… Continue Reading →
The sheer volume of music out there, divided into a plethora of disparate genres and subgenres, never ceases to amaze me. As lovers of the art form we are all sweeping our musical metal detectors across these heaving, sonic haystacks,… Continue Reading →
I’m starting to wonder if this 45s “Intro” is one of those which is played at a frequency only under 20’s can hear. “Summoning the Crimson Soul” however is very audible. And very enjoyable to boot. The album as a… Continue Reading →
Malasangre: take a foundation of extreme doom like, say, Khanate, layer thickly with sludge and sprinkle a little black metal and almost inaudible ominous keyboards on top. Let it seethe for half and hour or so and serve. Nigella it… Continue Reading →
I was intrigued when this one turned up. Black Crow King is essentially a one man work apart from some help in the guitar department from Corvus an artist who Metal Archives list as ‘international’ and his webpage as ‘Un.’… Continue Reading →