Tag Austria
Rusty Pacemaker is a one man band project out of Lanzenkirchen, Austria. Inspired by the late Bathory mastermind Quorthon, Rusty (his pseudonym) linked up with drummer Franz Löchinger and female vocalist ‘Lady K’ to complete the second album of his… Continue Reading →
Extreme music has long since transcended the standard four-guys-on-a-stage, dressed to impress and entertain for an hour or two on a Saturday night. Ok, maybe that Rubicon was crossed way back in the 1960s or 1970s – maybe even earlier,… Continue Reading →
I quite like cocktails. Not all the time mind. Let’s not go overboard, I am English not Floridian. Once in a while though it is nice to sip from a glass that contains a surprising mix of elements that refreshes… Continue Reading →
These Austrians have been a band that I have always had a very fleeting interest in but never paid much attention to. On the occasions that one of their albums has come by it has always had the once over,… Continue Reading →
This is the eighth album from Austria’s Dornenreich. The track titles are evocative enough, translating into English as “Of Power and Desire and Young Feathers”, “The Light trusts the Night”, “In the Flow of Flames”, “Dream of Dreams” etc. The… Continue Reading →
I have been to this place before courtesy of Frozen Ocean. The suicide forest or sea of trees in Japan is a place where many tread their final path to shuffle off this mortal coil. Ghostly, macabre, steeped in legend… Continue Reading →
After seven-odd years under an array of different titles, Triumphant appear to have finally settled into their new form to release a debut that fits their new name. Frantic Tormentor, Manic Disease and Nekromantik are a thing of the past,… Continue Reading →
“Fuck me, this thing is heavy”. It takes a fair bit to get me to start talking to myself, yet here I am in an empty room getting crushed to death every time I spin this innocent-looking rotund piece of… Continue Reading →
About a year ago I reviewed a debut album by Austrian group Harikiri For The Sky which was a shoe-gaze, ambient and Indie sounding take on post black metal. Marrok from that group and also Selbstentleibung has decided to pretty… Continue Reading →
Summoning more than any other band underline my theory that, far from being misanthropic scions of anti-human violence, the vast majority of black metal enthusiasts are Tolkien-obsessed, multi-sided-dice rolling geeks. This is NOT meant as a slur – after all,… Continue Reading →
For an album that was promoted to me as depressive/atmospheric black/death metal, Hope Dies First, the lead out track from Austrian one man band Nonexistence is a quiet beautiful, bleak and compelling slice of Funeral Doom with the kind of… Continue Reading →
On first listen it’s an easy job to review this Austrian Metal band’s 4th CD of premier-league, top quality, Symphonic Power Metal. It hasn’t deviated in style from previous release ‘Death & Legacy’, so most of it sounds like Sonata… Continue Reading →