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It’s the 10th anniversary of Incineration Festival in London today with many coming out to celebrate. Taking in 25 bands over 4 different venues, planning is essential as is a fair bit of running around and hoping everything would run… Continue Reading →
This album is the follow-up to the Dutch band’s 2020 release “Form in Motion”. Justifying the description of Autarkh’s music as “contemporary extreme metal”, “Form in Motion” took us to all sorts of strange places, treating us to epic, industrial… Continue Reading →
Silence is not what we get from Rorcal, whose world is heaviness, dissonance and industrially haunting soundscapes. 17 years on from forming, this is the Swiss band’s sixth album release. Crumbly destruction stands at the centre of the opener “Early… Continue Reading →
Back at our favourite former Grindhouse cinema for a top bill on a freezing cold evening. Thankfully the train strikes don’t seem to have had a huge impact, as the show has sold out and it’s already packed as local… Continue Reading →
I confess that that I didn’t know the band Norse before this release in spite of “Ascetic” being their fourth album. The idea that they play dissonant black metal did appeal to me. So off we go with the title… Continue Reading →
OK so as I write this I have succumbed to the plague. Covid has caught me in its putrefying clutches and I am quarantined and feeling like poop in a scoop. What is needed? Well, the rulebooks say plenty of fluids, rest and vitamin… Continue Reading →
Sometimes a band gets the crappy end of the reviewing stick just because of timing. I mean can you imagine trying to review a black metal album when you really, really can’t face much music at all. Hence the lateness… Continue Reading →
Forged in Manchester from the remnants of NekroDrako and now combined with key elements of Reign Of Erebus The Machinist may be new but have plenty of pedigree within their ranks. Considering it took Reign Of Erebus 14 years between… Continue Reading →
It’s that time of year where we enter autumn and a flurry of releases hit us, the big guns come out and fire their weapons. Although this year has been different in many respects and seen the death of live… Continue Reading →
A man from Venezuela and later Chile who goes by the name of N is behind this. The accompanying blurb suggests something of different angles of black metal. Best to listen to it really, and then we’ll know. As intros… Continue Reading →
The very rare occasions post has arrived during lockdown has been much appreciated and the timing was certainly perfect as far as Uprising are concerned a German one-man outfit with themes of decency and class discontent complete with a plague… Continue Reading →
Sometimes lack of patience can be a good thing despite what your mum told you. Matt Willcock and Sam Bean of The Berzerker and Dave Haley the drummer for Psycroptic decided to fill the gap between their main bands releases… Continue Reading →