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This is old school Death Metal from Brittany. Old School in the sound – reminiscent of Immolation, Malevolent Creation, Cannibal Corpse and even Death in parts. It is also old school in that this album is a compilation of two… Continue Reading →
“Finland’s contribution to the world is strange, ambient music. Discuss”. This compilation bears that out. Traditional folk music is the essence, but the Finnish artists develop the concept and take it to another level. This collection is part of a… Continue Reading →
The delightfully entitled Hurricane Hellfukker is the man essentially behind German act Illum Adora (also of Zarathustra) and has been active under that name since 2011. He has seen collaborators come and go through a couple of albums, splits EP’s… Continue Reading →
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band’s formation, Katatonia have released Mnemosynean, an offering to the goddess of memory. Encompassing 2 CDs, this extensive collection of rarities, B-sides, unused album songs, special edition bonuses, covers and remixes, will delight… Continue Reading →
This is a 25th anniversary compilation album from this German black metal group who appear to now be the ‘soul’ domain of Lord Esgaroth. According to the big rant in the CD booklet though the cards are on the table… Continue Reading →
French label Great Dane Records have come to notice a few times in the last couple of years and have done a decent job in getting some underground death metal bands some exposure and, true to form, they’ve done it… Continue Reading →
Let’s be clear from the outset, this is not a “new” Drudkh album, rather it is a compendium of Ukrainian black metal poetry pieces which have previously been released across three split EPs. As such, the material will probably be… Continue Reading →
It’s pretty sad to say that I never got to live through the sort of ‘golden age of Metal’ if you will. In fact I didn’t even get to live through the underground tape trading days of the 80’s, you… Continue Reading →
This here is one of those releases that the band describe as ‘for the fans’, the die hard fans describe as ‘rare and unreleased’ and the rest of us describe as an ‘odds n sods’ collection. As such it’s pretty… Continue Reading →
This is a compilation of material from a French death metal band that started in 1989 and released a couple of demos and a spilt release. This compilation brings together everything except their first demo. Of the 10 tracks in… Continue Reading →
Not a new album – quite the opposite! This is actually how it all started, this is how the band sounded before they were signed, before Dave Mustaine’s mentor-ship, before…to put it into a musical time context, these tracks were… Continue Reading →
This is a very interesting oddity. I thought I owned everything by Soilwork but I hadn’t taken account of the extra tracks, which were added to the Japanese release of “Stabbing the Drama” (2005), “Sworn to a Great Divide” (2007),… Continue Reading →