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I wait with bated breath every time Dark Tranquillity announce a new album in fear that it will be crap or even worse, boring. As an unabashed fangirl, I know I will love whatever they write, but I desperately want… Continue Reading →
Having ties to bigger bands can sometimes be a great thing, it might give your band the leg up they need, however it can also be a detriment if your music sucks. Rise To Remain spring to mind here, the… Continue Reading →
Just like politicians, who so often misjudge their audiences these days, bands miss-step. Who can say why? A spurt of creativity too far or a complete lack of it? Imperfect lives; band or relationship breakdown, or other life changing circumstances,… Continue Reading →
So, 2020 has been, by pretty much all standards what we in the scientific community might term “crap”. However, it has brought with it a follow up album to the rather great record “Divided by Darkness”, by Spirit Adrift, which… Continue Reading →
This shall be the third release of Oceans Of Slumber I’m reviewing, and this self-titled album is definitely far more extreme, on both ends of the spectrum, to what they have released before. Opening track “The Soundtrack To My Last… Continue Reading →
The trolls have returned, and this time, after a 7 year hiatus, they have come back with an absolute beast of an offering. ‘Vredesvävd’ is ten tracks of pure unadulterated blackened extreme folk metal. ‘Vredesvävd’ opens with ‘Väktaren’, a beautiful… Continue Reading →
As per usual, much of the next nine hundred or so words will unfortunately contain very little of what you would consider critiquing but more of a meandering rummage through the dusty caves of what remains of my memory, reminiscing… Continue Reading →
Every now and then a band comes along who completely shake the scene. Today we look at a band taking the Death Metal world by storm, but more of them in a moment. Essentially our band today are nothing new,… Continue Reading →
Dead Lord are consistently churning out entertaining free flowing releases that simply roll out of your speakers. If you are a fan you know what to expect, for newer followers I feel they take their influence from the likes of… Continue Reading →
I’ve been following Black Crown Initiate with intense interest since demo-come-EP “Song Of The Crippled Bull” announced their brand of progressive death metal to the world in 2013. On the heels of said EP were two critically acclaimed albums, before… Continue Reading →
I’m a complete nerd in every sense of the word. Bullied for playing Warhammer in high school and then going on to find Metal and within that the likes of Death and Black Metal (the most basement dwelling genres of… Continue Reading →
‘Rex’ is a long awaited follow up to 2017’s ‘With Primeval Force’ which developed the band from their debut release. Here on ‘Rex’ I find them going back in the majority to their early sound whilst still retaining those lesson… Continue Reading →