Tag Belgium
Back in February I was lucky enough to get a listen to “Pulses of Pleasure” by the highly promising and fast rising Belgian metal outfit, Evil Invaders. The young band clearly have an old head on their shoulders as everything… Continue Reading →
Magic Kingdom…Magic Kingdom…oh yeah, debuted in 1999 with an album of decent Power Metal struggling through ropey production and wrapped in a terrible cover! Well, everyone has to start somewhere and follow-up “Metallic Tragedy”, belied it’s portentous title and was… Continue Reading →
This is the second (stop saying ‘sophomore’ you pretentious wankers) album from Belgian DM crew Dehuman and is quite an improvement over 2012’s ‘Black Throne of All Creation’. Relentless touring with the likes of Agathocles & Master has paid off… Continue Reading →
With a name which pays homage to Canadian Thrashers Razor (The title of their 1985 thrash masterpiece album), it doesn’t take much to guess what these Belgian guys play for a living. Full of energy and classic 80’s attitude, Evil… Continue Reading →
Ancient Rites are a band with a long and complicated past including dodgy record labels, band members leaving/rotating and all manner of other obstacles along the way. On the other hand, there have also been a fair share of highlights… Continue Reading →
Diablo Blvd. (or Diablo Boulevard if you prefer) are a Belgian Metal band with comedian for a singer. It’s not that Alex Agnew’s vocals are particularly amusing or his lyrics have your side’s splitting, no, he’s an actual Comedian, a… Continue Reading →
“Squidheads, squidheads roly-poly squidheads. Sqidheads, squidheads, eat em up yum!” Well not quite as far as this calamari enthused one man project from Belgium is concerned as it is purely instrumental but if you made up your own words and sang… Continue Reading →
Belgian black metallers Saille have been putting together quite a package over the past few years: nice image and album concepts, high quality playing and a sound that manages to weave its way through a convincing range of second wave… Continue Reading →
Formed in 2004 as a metal influenced hardcore band, the Belgians of Resistance have gradually morphed their music from that genre to more of an extreme metal realm. Five albums in now, ‘The Seeds Within’ is described by the band’s… Continue Reading →
“Recorded in the woods of Daknam”, we are told in the sleeve notes. I guess the grey and murky place in the cover picture is Daknam. The fuzzy ambient post rock haze which opens up this substantial work from this… Continue Reading →
Candles, skulls, magic circles and corpse painted figures are all present on the artwork of this 4 track EP along with a spiky logo naturally. Well it’s obvious that we are in for a dose of blasphemous black metal here!… Continue Reading →
So they’re called Death Penalty (after the Witchfinder General album for the slower amongst you), they consist of Gaz Jennings (ex-Cathedral, guitars), Michelle Nocon and Frederik Cosemans (vocals and bass respectively, both listed as ex-Serpentcult, so another memo I missed… Continue Reading →