Tag Finland
Opening track, ‘Ascension Towards The Promethean Fire’, begins with the bells tolling and then launches into raw demonic dirty black metal. It is calculated and measured and is as polished as it is maniacal and vile. The vocals from Lord… Continue Reading →
And once again you never know what you’ll get with an Aesthetic Death release but it will be different. And this album by the Finnish Vaina is certainly that. Amusingly their entry on Metal Archives just says black metal. Um…. Continue Reading →
I’m going to be a bit lazy and go straight to the artist’s own description: “Pigments is a mix of ambient, electronic and industrial soundscapes. Pigments uses a dark colour palette to create haunting, serene, strange sound art”. I first… Continue Reading →
8 years since their last album and 6 since ‘The Gothic Tapes’, this shall be their third album. It’s also a concept album with the subject matter being the 10-year winter that started in 535, including the bubonic plague that… Continue Reading →
Everyone needs to take things slowly once in a while, even the speediest of musicians. Gathered among this sextet we have past and present members of bands such as Finntroll, Impaled Nazarene and Barathrum among many others, all bands not… Continue Reading →
Time to lay the dead to rest and what better way to do it than via the medium of Finnish Funeral Doom? Doing the graveside duties here we have a true apostle of the scene, Mikko Lehto whose name should… Continue Reading →
Is it too early to start discussing “Album of the Year”? I’ll stick my neck out and say that even though it’s only just February, I’m confident ‘Halo’ will feature in many of these lists, and may well sit at the… Continue Reading →
Dawn Of Solace is the solo work of Tuomas Saukkonen (Wolfheart, Before The Dawn). The Finnish metal icon once again immerses himself in a melancholy, gothic world steeped in themes of loneliness. Mikko Heikkilä is on board contributing vocal duties…. Continue Reading →
Do I like to be known as the ‘Death Metal guy’? I mean it kind of fits, I do love Death Metal, I promote Extreme Metal through all of my writing and journalistic exploits but what people forget is that… Continue Reading →
Ever had the feeling you’re on to a hiding to nothing with trying to review an album? I was so taken with the last album by Finnish black metal/dungeon synth project Druadan Forest (the domain of V-Khaoz) that I bought… Continue Reading →
Having just released an album last year, the Finnish septet have been keeping themselves busy and are back with this 6-track EP. It’s a far more laid-back affair which at times seems to be showcasing the silences and mellowest of… Continue Reading →
Verikalpa had been an integral part of the Scandinavian Pagan/Folk Metal scene for a good ten years before their debut finally arrived in 2018 – now there’s no stopping them! We had another instalment in 2020 and already, right here… Continue Reading →