Tag Celtic Frost
Crawling out of the depths of Greek doom in 2019, Seer Of The Void made an early impression with debut LP “Revenant” in 2020. “Mantra Monolith” is the new offering and finds the trio continuing to explore those classic, dense… Continue Reading →
Long running Hellenic black metal band Thy Darkened Shade kick off my new year. I assume this is a companion piece to their 2014 album but as this is my first dance with the (I think) duo I have no… Continue Reading →
Alright, hands up, I hadn’t heard of Ripped to Shreds. Turns out the four piece of Californian-based extremists are making waves in the scene, and that Jubian is their third full length album since 2018. All of which really makes… Continue Reading →
Ah, another release from my favourite ‘located behind a restaurant’ label. Gentle jokes aside Transcending Obscurity seem to have a knack for finding quality and producing it so I thought I’d have a listen to Newcastle’s Live Burial who though… Continue Reading →
So, a few things made me want to review this album. The first was that the band were described as “proto-death metal”. Now me, I’m a sucker for primitive aggression, so that was enticing. The second thing was that Doldrey… Continue Reading →
This Finnish band has been around for about a decade and previously released only one full length but a raft of EPs and demos, eight and two respectively, as the duo of Yonülf and Fogg play all the instruments on… Continue Reading →
Hey! You! Do you like Celtic Frost? No, not the modern Tom G. Warrior in a beany hat doom stuff, but the old, old stuff? You know, the “URGH”-laden Morbid Tales of yore, before the synthesisers, Mexican Radios and all… Continue Reading →
Hardly a new name to me, these Australian monsters having been around since about 2004, but the first time I’ve actually tangled with them. Opening with the charming, fly buzzing intro to ‘Death To Pigs’ the album squeals and winds… Continue Reading →
Debut EP from this Spanish trio of death metallers. And all apparently done ‘under their own will without paying attention to any current underground/mass media trends or what nowadays is referred to as cult’. Which frankly is pretty much what… Continue Reading →
Can it really be the fifth album for American’s Withered? I own four of them now (I haven’t got their sophomore album, Folie Circulaire), and incredibly while they are a band whom I still tend to think of as new,… Continue Reading →
If a lot of traditional Norwegian black metal is a mass of thorny bushes growing from the rich Norwegian loam, becoming tangled up and like a single mass, Mork are the ones who stand apart: Superficially the same but get… Continue Reading →
Pretty certain this is the first album from Ecuador I’ve reviewed, and raw black metal is the calling these three guys have. And yes I do mean calling; you don’t play this kind of music for fame, let alone fortune…. Continue Reading →