Tag Dornenreich
Thuringian folklorists Mosaic have a huge body of work although this is only their third studio album following on from ‘Secret Ambrosian Fire’ of 2019. Maybe due to displacement from lockdown but things have been handled slightly differently this time… Continue Reading →
And now for something a little bit different… It’s time to shuffle the deck and pick some cards from the Minor and the Major Arcana of musician Jeff Grimal, formerly of The Great Old Ones. Fate is very much in… Continue Reading →
“I know that name I thought” when this album came up for review. Sure enough a bit of digging came up with the name Henry Hyde Bronsdon which was the nom de plume of vocalist / guitarist Duncan was using… Continue Reading →
“They have an umlaut they must be heavy” observed a friend on mention of these Canadians. See, this is a preconception that bands should observe before unnecessarily cladding themselves with such metal signatures. Apart from sharing country of origin and… Continue Reading →
Narvik is a place in Norway and these Germans adopted the name in memory of musician Robert Burås of rock band Madrugada who lived and died there, taken far too young at the age of 31. His guitar work which… Continue Reading →
Something a bit different here from this Italian act helmed by bassist Kvasir of Abhor and Profezia infamy. Rather than doing everything himself he has on this project roped in a violinist going by the name of Ecnerual to temper… Continue Reading →
Some Hungarian folk music anyone? What’s that shaking the head all about, we never did claim to be a noisy metal site, we try and cater for all tastes within reason and it’s always nice to chill out to something… Continue Reading →
Firstly, I should say that I think I’ve been given this to review because I really like The Vision Bleak, have heard some Empyrium in the past and a some Noekk too. I’m not really coming at this like… Continue Reading →
We normally get windswept black dissonance or strange pulsing ambient blackness via French label Debemur Morti but Tamerlan take us down a completely different acoustic / neo-folk route. This project is essentially the work of multi-instrumentalist Timur Iskandarov a Russian… Continue Reading →
There is a wealth of almost hidden treasure to be found within the French Canadian Quebec region as far as black metal is concerned and listening to many bands from their lately it has reminded of the excitement felt as… Continue Reading →
Yes indeedy, things do not get much more Germanic than this. Hailing from deepest darkest Bavaria Draumar is the name of this project as well as the assumed moniker of the main man behind it, the person we are told… Continue Reading →
A crumbling building with a very scary and ghastly looking figure, face wrapped in alien looking bandages which hang down towards the ground greeted me in the promo photo accompanying the invite to review the digital download of this album…. Continue Reading →