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I have to begin by saying this is not my usual cup of tea. Or maybe it is. I’m a more or less stereotypical raw black metal girlie, and this is very much not raw in the raw black metal… Continue Reading →
Back in Switzerland, I should be getting frequent flier points for all the time I am spending there are at the moment. Shame it’s only musically. Here we meet a doomy, blackened sorceress, namely Witch N who is now solely… Continue Reading →
For decades, the Guinness World Records have listed countess Erzsebet Bathory, a Hungarian noblewoman who lived in the sixteenth century, as the world’s most prolific female murderer, attributing the death of more than 600 young women to her, despite the… Continue Reading →
When the esteemed editor of the site you are being kind enough to peruse asked me if I wanted to review Spiritual Void, I was flung back three decades to the groove metal inspired pounding single from Overkill’s 1993 crusher… Continue Reading →
From simply the cover of this new album by David Mako’s The Devil’s Trade project it is clear there are changes afoot. Gone are the stark line drawings and clear titles, instead (appropriately enough considering the label) we get a… Continue Reading →
As I suspect is the case for most people, one of my favourite things about music – including the myriad types of metal – is its ability to pick you up and put you down in a very specific place… Continue Reading →
On first sight of the cover for ‘Ablanthanabla’ it is frankly impossible not to think Electric Wizard. The font is right, the name is halfway there, and the Branca Studio style artwork (hey, it may even be Branca for all… Continue Reading →
When this dropped…or more accurately seeped through the bricks like mould… I felt like the Paul Spericki character in Grosse Point Blank, slamming the steering wheel in his car and exclaiming to Martin Blank “Fourteen years man! Fourteen Years!!!!” So… Continue Reading →
Chicago is the city that birthed electric blues but a group of young lads by the name of High Priest seem to have sought their inspirations from a different source who took those blues roots into far more ominous and… Continue Reading →
It can be strange the way you get introduced to a band; when I was younger and not grey of hair, it was a combination of word of mouth, a seriptitiously glued poster, a flyer thrust at you in the… Continue Reading →
Who doesn’t love a good surprise? I know I do. You, the debut album by new entity Johnny The Boy certainly provides one. Two central figures of Crippled Black Phoenix, Justin Greaves and Belinda Kordic, joined by Matthew Crawford on… Continue Reading →
Right, just to set things up straight from the outset, the last Church Of Misery album was actually Thy Kingdom Scum in 2013. You may have seen another one called And Then There Were None, but frankly as far as… Continue Reading →