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Scroll to bottom for photos, be warned they are not safe for work! Italian, Norwegian, British, Finnish and Greek bands all clash headlong on stage this evening bringing a pure axis of evil to London. First up are the Italians… Continue Reading →
Some years ago a lively Belgian band Iconoclasm played at the Infernal Damnation Fest in London. Their brand of black metal was so intense and noxious that their sound managed to drown out the fire alarm. Someone alerted us to… Continue Reading →
For those with a hankering for unrelenting slabs of the darkest evil fathomable within heavy music it seems that Liverpool is the place to be right now – with the likes of Crypt Lurker and Coltsblood decimating ear drums and… Continue Reading →
Khaos-Dei is a brand new black metal outfit from France who’ve been quietly laying the groundwork for their first release with a bit of secrecy-shrouded and mysterious marketing drip-fed here and there. It’s undeniably French with firmly nationalist undertones even… Continue Reading →
The despicable amount of releases continue from one man Sicilian workhorse Vardan and this is his third so far this year. Personally I thought he was going to aim for one a month but with the release date of this… Continue Reading →
Are Satyricon the Metallica of black metal? An important and revered set of early works…the odd curve-ball…and an opinion-dividing run of commercial triumphs…But what do you do when you have successfully pushed a genre’s themes to about as far as… Continue Reading →
Who could resist “seven tracks of classic black metal replenished by cold wave melancholy and depressive-catatonic doom metal”? On top of that Cién are from Poland. The description of these seven hefty tracks doesn’t do them justice. There are of… Continue Reading →
I have been following and enjoying the work of genocidal USBM group Kommandant since they first made Kontakt with us via their 2010 EP. Their second album ‘The Draconian Archetype’ followed on from that in 2012 and got the comment… Continue Reading →
Well when you call a band eerie that’s what you expect but that is not the feeling one gets first from the music from this Polish duo. I guess if something is eerie it is sinister in atmosphere and dwells… Continue Reading →
Anil Carrier obviously likes keeping himself rather busy. As if he is not in enough bands at the moment already () the multi-instrumentalist has now gone and hooked up with vocalist Daniel Jones Gillett of The Fever Sea and set… Continue Reading →
Warning may contain nuts! Yes and it’s rather nutty stories that have helped pave the way towards Japanese loons Sigh’s tenth album. Founding member and guitarist Shinichi Ishikawa was removed from the line up due to the fact that apparently… Continue Reading →
“Haunted”, Demonic Slaughter’s fifth album release, captures the aura of old school black metal. It’s about the decay of mankind. It’s cold and frosty. Essentially, that’s the sum of it. Demonic Slaughter are Polish but that’s incidental as the style… Continue Reading →