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This here is a two track, 20 odd minute slab of bestial black noise from Finland. Yep you read that right; two tracks. Scary right? Well so you know where I’m coming from, I love a good bestial racket. Been… Continue Reading →
A new band from Sweden, a name you may have not heard of (yet) and a debut EP. You might be shrugging your shoulders and thinking “so what.” However, those behind this trio are far from new to the scene…. Continue Reading →
Anticipation is a strange beast, especially in the case of the UK’s own tribe of migrating Palaeolithic people Wyrdstaef. With a mere handful of shows they have by force of presence and performance managed to create the kind of interest… Continue Reading →
White Ward were one of the bands for whom the pandemic could not have come at a worse moment. Their absorbing last LP Love Exchange Failure, released in the autumn of 2019, fusing lounge jazz with black metal, had left… Continue Reading →
Well why give something a name when you can call it “//180703//”? It’s a hard one to discuss with your mates, so I guess you’d better ask them if they’ve heard the new EP by that Austrian band Demersus ad… Continue Reading →
Utilising gruesome film sound bites, Canadian death thrashers Video Nasty have concocted a brutal blast of old school thrash metal that crosses over into hardcore punk and death metal ugliness. This self titled EP is the bands first outing and… Continue Reading →
Balance is important in everything, and what could provide more balance than reminding yourself of future rainy days at the beginning of summer? Enter Skognatt’s new EP Rain Eternal. The one-man atmospheric black metal project from Augsburg, Germany, behind which… Continue Reading →
In the 1990s, when black metal was having his major and genre-defining moment, there was a war raging in the Balkans. While black metal bands were forming all over Europe, the activity in the former Yugoslavia was hardly worth mentioning…. Continue Reading →
In the absence of being able to tour off the back of their spectacular comeback album Forever Black, Cirith Ungol instead have taken a little trip back to their archives and recorded four old and oldish tracks that never appeared… Continue Reading →
Finnish Juggernauts Sadistik Forest have delivered another crunching and bruising package in the form of 4 track EP, ‘Obscure Old Remains’, which will maul and batter you from the opening chords of ‘Mandragore’ to the closing echoes of ‘Waters Black’…. Continue Reading →
Redimoni are a couple of things. They are a 4-piece thrash act from Barcelona, the heart of the Catalonian region of Spain, an area which is rife with unrest and simmering tensions, something which seems to help create a good… Continue Reading →
You know when a band that isn’t Metal gets on a Metal label? Well that really tends to grind my gears. It makes that band into an ‘acceptable’ outlet for the Metal community, why? Can’t you just go on Bandcamp… Continue Reading →