Tag Denmark
It’s been quite a while since I locked horns with Hatesphere. Once one of my favourite bands, the high point for me was their 2005 album “The Sickness Within”. This latest album, which is their 11th full release, actually has… Continue Reading →
Another generous full CD from the label and another band unknown to me. A band who describe themselves as a metal band playing songs through the eyes of the dying and the cover sports an elephant about to crush a… Continue Reading →
In 1992, Danish Death Metal band Maceration unleashed their debut album entitled ‘A Serenade of Agony’, which featured Dan Swano under his well used alias Day Disyraah. A demo followed this up in 1995 before the band ceased to exist…. Continue Reading →
Formally known as Defilementory, Danish Dissonant Death Metal troupe Dysgnostic have unleashed a new eight track album entitled ‘Scar Echoes’ through uber-prolific Indian label Transcending Obscurity Records. This marks the trio’s debut album under this guise and sees the band… Continue Reading →
Twenty four long and somewhat spartan years after inception, Copenhagen’s Black/Death Metal juggernaut Strychnos have finally unleashed their debut album upon the world. Entitled ‘A Mother’s Curse’ and featuring eight gruelling odes of intensity and belligerence, and has been released… Continue Reading →
Drawing inspiration “from black and death metal to djent and hardcore”, Cabal embark upon their third album. I’ll add “melodic hooks” to that. It’s true that pungent death metal djent hardcore is their game, witness the opening song of this… Continue Reading →
A prolific live band, self-styled blackened hardcore warriors Hexis here are releasing their third full-length album. Prepare for dark heaviness. The opening song “Letum” has a surprisingly pleasing flow. It’s a bit straight line, which seems to be the recurrent… Continue Reading →
Denmark’s Evil are regarded as one of those classic bands, a 1999 re-issue of their ‘Evil Message’ EP with Sortilége helped their heritage, I am sure. Following a bumpy attempt of resurgence in 2015 with ‘Shoot the Messenger’, sole original… Continue Reading →
Hammerheart have done a great job re-issuing the early back catalogue of Danish technical Thrash metal band Invocator. The band’s debut Excursion Demise was originally released in 1991. I always found this release to be at the tipping point of… Continue Reading →
On the weekly list of reviews that comes out I put my hand in to cover this album by Danish act Heidra because I read the band had some Amorphis traits in their music. They weren’t wrong it has to… Continue Reading →
Striking wrath, exquisiteness and ambience are just some words that could be used to describe these four black metal Danes working in absolute harmony to create their first full length release, ‘Forfader,’ which is laced throughout with haunting melancholy and… Continue Reading →
This is the fourth album by the Danish quartet, which was formed just over a decade ago, with their debut appearing to have been completely in Danish and from what I’m reading a black metal album at that. While ‘Goddess’… Continue Reading →