Tag Australia
It took me a while to write this review due to ever increasing work commitments, but that meant that I had time to fully appreciate and inwardly digest this majestic beauty as I revisited it, being smothered more each time… Continue Reading →
Australian band Estrangement bring together the gloom of Funeral Doom Metal and the maudlin sorrowful tones of Neoclassical harmonies, to forge a sound that would also appeal to some of a Black Metal persuasion. Released on CD via Aesthetic Death… Continue Reading →
With their inception coming during the Pandemic years, Melbourne, Australia based Blackened Death Metal band Black Lava have unleashed their new album ‘Soul Furnace’, complete with stunning artwork. In my opinion, the phrase ‘Soul Furnace’ instantly creates an image in… Continue Reading →
Australian Progressive Metal four piece Teramaze return once again to continue their impressive work rate of four studio releases in the past two years. With their impressive musicianship, the band have rightly received high praise for their recent efforts and… Continue Reading →
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, or indeed, an album. Many of us have, especially in the world of heavy music. One look at the new album artwork on Aussie band, Arkheth’s “Clarity Came With A… Continue Reading →
For more than ten years these hard-working, hard rocking Aussies have been plying their riff-laden brand of groovy Metal to audiences around the world, garnering a healthy reputation as a good, solid act that enlightens and enhances any gig or… Continue Reading →
Anything could happen here. Metallic hardcore, late 90s metal and death metal influences form the stylistic backbone of this album. Reading the blurb, it seems to claim to be everything, and above all bigger and better than the Australians’ 2021… Continue Reading →
Triple…what? Yep. I took this as I am genuinely a fan of the varied works of Dis Pater, the mastermind behind this, and have written extensively over the years for this esteemed organ. This though I knew was going to… Continue Reading →
Aussie band, Remains came to life in 2019 but their members were all individually established on the local underground metal circuit in bands like Fuck I’m Dead, The Kill and Shallow Grave. “Grind Til Death” is the band’s first full… Continue Reading →
Australia has a reputation of sorts of being brutal, be it the fact everything on the continent is trying to actively kill you in some way and its people have a rather blunt sense of humour which pulls no punches…. Continue Reading →
Seems like I am no less than the 5th writer at this site to cover a Runespell release. The Australian one-man act helmed by Nightwolf certainly seems prolific, having notched up no less than 4 albums since 2017 as well… Continue Reading →
Well, nobody expects a funeral doom band to do anything in a particularly fast fashion and it has been four years since we last heard from these Australians on last album ‘The Incubus Of Karma.’ This is the first of… Continue Reading →