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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 →
Blåhø is not the noise one makes into a tissue when suffering a particularly bad cold but is actually the name of a mountain in the Trollheim range that this Norwegian band affiliate themselves with and apparently have members who… Continue Reading →
‘Sexforce’. Pretty rape-y name for an album isn’t it? Well, there’s nothing sexy about this band, but they can be pretty forceful in their approach of proggy, deathly metal. Actually, I take the sexy thing back – some of their… Continue Reading →
One of the most striking features of this, the third album from Norway’s In Vain, is the quality of production. As you would expect of a Progressive Metal album, there is completeness of sound which captures all the elements. The… Continue Reading →
Listening to albums like this makes me feel really uncomfortable. It is the awkward moment, when you really have no idea of what to criticize. Although the bands abilities are developed to a maximum, the music seems kind of uninteresting…. Continue Reading →
Quite a busy chap is Andreas “Vintersorg” Hedlund. It was only last year we had his ‘Pulse Of The Earth’ or ‘Jordpuls’ album and of course his unmistakable harmonious croons have only just been digested on latest Borknagar album Urd…. Continue Reading →
How Borknagar have acquired themselves a steady reputation over the years as a Viking metal band with a progressive, cosmic and melodic twist. There’s a kind of ‘super group’ element about them, with representatives of Vintersorg, Dimmu Borgir, Solefald, Carpathian… Continue Reading →