Tag Australia
The Harvest Moon is one of those single person black metal projects, where the subject is the anxiety of living in a complex civilisation. The individual behind this EP upped sticks in 2018 to experience off grid living in Western… Continue Reading →
This is the bit in the review where your scribe tells you what they know about the band: They are Australian. They play melodic/atmospheric black metal. Well there we are. Three tracks. A little over twenty-three minutes. Nice art. ‘Azure;… Continue Reading →
If atmosphere is what you want, then atmosphere is what you get with the latest opus from Abstract The Light. ‘Magna Sapientia Quaerere – To The Depths Of Thy Soul’ is a magnificent grand beast and it is made up… Continue Reading →
Eight years is a long time to wait between albums, the seismic shift in extreme metal can be huge as these Australian industrial death metallers return from their hiatus with a fourth full length. Brandishing an apocalyptic, cataclysmic approach the… Continue Reading →
Black Metal is a weird one for me, especially the ‘Avant-Garde’. Often that tag can mean pretentious, lacklustre or quite frankly just a complete mess. I’ve heard ‘experimental’ types in this field many times, and often with poor results. That… Continue Reading →
Ah the irony of the album title as I sit in lockdown. Even more so as Werewolves are of course Australian and as such are enjoying a lot more freedom than the majority of the planet. Hairy flea-bitten bastards! Annoyingly I cannot hold… Continue Reading →
Two years since releasing their debut, the Australian quintet Depravity are back with ‘Grand Malevolence’. and in those two years, they have been honing their craft. The riffs appear tighter and that much faster, with no beats missed during the… Continue Reading →
I was interested to read that the debut album by Tasmanian band Sens Dep, being the abbreviation of Sensory Deprivation, was recorded over four years in a tin shed, an alpine hunter’s hut, concrete inter-zones, and the Tasmanian wilderness. The… Continue Reading →
Four fifths of this band are from Australia but the other fifth in the ranks is Proscriptor (Absu) who adds his considerable vocal abilities to this third album from a band whose name intrigued me, firstly because it doesn’t make… Continue Reading →
Five years ago I reviewed Proliferation and ended my 8/10 critique with “Fast loud and Rude” a nod to Vic Rattlehead and 80’s thrash. Somehow 2017’s “Extinction” passed me by – I think I played some singles on the radio. So, it is with a… Continue Reading →
Vanishing Point are actually no strangers to the Melodic/Progressive Metal scene, with their debut emerging all the way back in 1997 – a slightly more progressive offering than what followed. Signing to LMP in 2000 and releasing 2nd album “Tangled… Continue Reading →
Ah what a film to watch on a sweltering day, the heat floods off the screen and the arid imagery is enough to leave you gasping whatever the weather. Walkabout is quite simply a classic and one of many from… Continue Reading →