Tag Acoustic
On the same day that I received this album to review, I read in one of those quirky surveys you find in the Metro free newspaper that Hastings is the place in the UK where the residents are the most… Continue Reading →
It seemed a bit of an odd and in a very English way, eccentric idea for UK progressive black, death metal band Talanas to go down the acoustic and unplugged route. However on listening to new mini album ‘Asylum’ and… Continue Reading →
Two guys and one girl wearing neat autumnal knitwear stare out into the camera lens with a dense forest spread behind them. Promo shots can give clues about what the music may be like and in the case of Nebelung… Continue Reading →
There’s a clue on Stroszek’s Facebook where it is written that the band’s influences come from “highways, trains, gas stations, hotel rooms”. As you may gather, “Wild Years of Remorse and Failures” is no barrel of laughs, nor is it… Continue Reading →
Ulver’s 1996 album ‘Kveldsanger’ has a lot to answer for if you ask me. By the mid-nineties, the concept of black metal bands adding delicate acoustic interludes or introductions to their albums was nothing new, artists quickly cottoning onto the… Continue Reading →
Eric E returns with his neo/dark folk project Weh, but this time the world it deals with is perhaps not so perpetually dark. En Natt Kom Doed from last year was steeped in the facets of death, but this one… Continue Reading →
Ancient VVisdom are a band whose reputation is certainly as dark as their music; their debut release ‘Inner Earth’ was a split with the infamous Charles Manson before they exploded onto the scene in 2011 with their first full length… Continue Reading →
Yes indeedy, things do not get much more Germanic than this. Hailing from deepest darkest Bavaria Draumar is the name of this project as well as the assumed moniker of the main man behind it, the person we are told… Continue Reading →
Kotipelto, front man for power metal chasers ’ Stratovarius’ and Liimatainen one of the founding members of Finnish epic band ‘Sonata Arctica’ have decided to get together and play some live gigs. However, it was the fans that decided they… Continue Reading →
According to the band the title if translated could mean “ancestor” and OtO focuses on the guidance our ancestors bring to us in modern times. Well considering what we have heard in the past fromWest Virginiaduo Nechochwen like their last… Continue Reading →
Artist: Ektomorf Title: The Acoustic Type: Album Label: AFM Records Having reviewed their first couple of Nuclear Blast offerings, I wasn’t too certain if this album was going to work, but I’m glad to say that it actually does. Now… Continue Reading →