Tag France
There’s a big trend for bands not caring about trends, have you noticed? It’s very strange. Ho hum. Anyway, musing aside this here is the debut from garage metal punks Iron Lizards from France and if garage punk has you… Continue Reading →
Oh, tricksy editor! Coming blurry of eye off a night shift I had a quick scan of his message offering me a couple of albums to review, and I went, “Monster Truck, excellent”, being a fan as I am of… Continue Reading →
Coldwave, darkwave and black metal are a combination which I find appealing, and that’s what Remah is offering. “Une Main” (One Hand) is the first work to be released by this long-standing Franco-Belgian combo. Background moaning and shivering atmospheres lace… Continue Reading →
There’s nothing sensible about this on the face of it, as the band promote their music as “free jazz, avant-prog”, or as the editor said “screamy sax in squat madness” As they’re French, the sensible would translate as “sensitive” maybe… Continue Reading →
I certainly feel honoured receiving a CD that is limited to just 50 copies here to review from the man without a face Sans Visage who is responsible for it. This is an obscure and underground one-man black metal project… Continue Reading →
There is something about the album artwork by Samuel Nelson that fixed me about this sophomore by this French band. I’ve stared at it and analysed a number of times and I’ve even got it as my computer desktop image,… Continue Reading →
Some twenty years into their existence French heavyweights Year of No Light are having a damn busy summer. A new album in the shape of Consolamentum and a career spanning box set of their previous 5 full-lengthers – quite an achievement after what… Continue Reading →
Tech Death has played a pretty important role in my life these past few years. It’s a genre which has really helped broaden my musical horizons into Prog, Classic Rock, Jazz influence and much more. It really is quite a… Continue Reading →
This Normandy based trio are new to the label but have several albums prior to this one. They also contain members of bands such as Monarch, Ataraxie, Malemort and Void Paradigm among others. Although liking what I was hearing straight… Continue Reading →
Four of the tracks on this debut album by French death metal act Nihilanth appeared on their debut EP of the same name that was released in January of this year. I was left very impressed with this debut album… Continue Reading →
This album by French black metal band Gorgon is, it seems, their follow up to their 2019 comeback album. I’m not so much embarrassed I missed that, but that the name rings no bells with me at all. On the… Continue Reading →
Since I first heard Bal-Sagoth I’ve been into Symphonic Extreme Metal. Particularly the more ridiculous side of it. Big over the top Power Metal style orchestration laying about with harsh vocals and goblin-like silliness has always appealed to me. In… Continue Reading →