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Although the name may seem a bit strange or personal for a death metal album, it spells out precisely what this band is. In fact it’s more representative than their previous moniker of Flesh, under which it operated from 2004-09,… Continue Reading →
To be philosophical for a moment (hard with that album title hanging above): The notion of ‘black n roll’ is either just the logical extension of heavy metal’s occult obsession within the rock framework, or actually pretty much the antithesis… Continue Reading →
The debut album by this Swedish trio consisting of J. Sandin on vocals and keyboards, H. Carlsson on guitars and bass, and N. Fjellström on the drums is a bit of an eclectic affair. The easiest comparison I can make… Continue Reading →
Having originally been self released earlier in the year, Hells Headbangers has picked up this collection of recordings known as the Yellowgoat Sessions for wider distribution. Joel Grind will be familiar to most for his work with Toxic Holocaust (a… Continue Reading →
Ok who has gone and sent me the world’s smallest pizza and what sort of topping does an Arrogant Destruktor contain? Lift the lid and oh silly me, of course it’s actually a CD but damn it now at 9am… Continue Reading →
My last experience of Belgians Slecht wasn’t a particularly inspiring one, as I reviewed their very first demo “Triumph of Death” around 6 years ago for Metal Team UK. The fact I didn’t recall a lot about it is explained… Continue Reading →
When our editor offered me this for review I expected a fairly straight-forward case. Having read the name Tribulation in the context of new old-school death metal a few years back, surely a blast of stinking death was going to… Continue Reading →
Canadian Mark R. who makes up Ov Hollowness is a busy character, this being his third album of ‘blackened atmospheric metal’ in just about as many years. High work rate for essentially a solo artist. He also seems pretty good… Continue Reading →
The Eye, interesting name for a band. Is it perhaps all seeing? If it offends thee would you pluck it out? Maybe, and if you still are eyes wide shut and in the dark, if I mentioned that this is… Continue Reading →
As we all know acts from the South American continent have a predisposition to obdurately fixate their music in the 80s so much so that listening to most material from the underground there is like a time warp to the… Continue Reading →
Some years back I got hold of a copy of Bornholm’s second album “March For Glory And Revenge” and was impressed with the bands true black metal spirit pioneered by the unequalled Emperor but carrying the torch for the genre… Continue Reading →
One look at that cover-art and you know there can only be one person responsible, Necrolord aka Kristian Wahlin. It has that classic cold blue look to it that reminds instantly of Dissection, Bathory, Emperor, Necrophobic and a host of… Continue Reading →