Tag Dark Funeral
The Norwegians may have got there first and the French carry the banner for the most adventurous and bizarre, but the Greeks, well, they just seem to do it better than anyone else. Exhibit A: Akrotheism, who may not be… Continue Reading →
Inferno is one of those black metal bands whose back catalogue makes everyone else look lazy. Kicking off in the mid-nineties, they’ve had no fewer than 35 releases by rough count, mainly splits and demos but also, including this one,… Continue Reading →
One of the joys of music writing is to be blown away by an act you were previously completely unaware of – it doesn’t happen all that often but when it does, it somehow vindicates all the hours of trudging through… Continue Reading →
King Fear is a relatively new project formed by Nachtgarm (of Negator, and recently filling in for Dark Funeral on vocals). Before this, their debut full length album, they had released only a single EP in 2012. Although there is… Continue Reading →
It has been quite a long time since a black/death metal release from Poland was a novelty; at one point the very idea would have sent chills down the spines of extreme metal fans everywhere. Now of course, many bands… Continue Reading →
So my reviews for 2013 start with something dark, evil and menacing in the form of Greek black metallers Enshadowed whose third full length has taken some time to come out after the sophomore in 2003, though the band has… Continue Reading →
Although Skineater is undoubtedly going to be a new name to most, the band consists of characters who have been around the Swedish death metal scene for a long time. From founder Håkan Stuvemark (ex-Wombbath, In Thy Dreams) to new… Continue Reading →
Despite the fact I have always found Shakespeare about as appealing as a holiday in Ethiopia, a misreading of this band name automatically drew word associations to a similarly titled play. This duo is based in Hamburg according to their… Continue Reading →
The Wretched End started life in 2008 as a collaboration between Emperor/Zyklon’s Samoth, Cosmo of Mindgrinder and ex-Dark Funeral sticksman Nils Fjellström. Second full-length ‘Inroads’ is a very straightforward album, a mechanical mash-up of sharp and clinical blackened DM riffs… Continue Reading →