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My last encounter with Aosoth was their uncompromising debut LP released about 4 or 5 years ago. Though it was a competent, snarling slice of black metal I still recall coming away slightly underwhelmed – perhaps more to do with… Continue Reading →
Melodic death metal is often maligned these days but nevertheless always feels as if it could just be on the cusp of greatness. Like a surge of power metal exuberance meets death metal’s fearsome intensity and wizardry. What could possibly… Continue Reading →
I love an album that literally takes you on a trip, one that you press play on and have no choice but to be taken on a wild journey through the deranged mind of its composer. French band Pensees Nocturnes… Continue Reading →
I’m always up for a bit of avant-garde black metal, and this band seems to fit the bill nicely. I’ve not heard Way to End’s previous album “Desecrated Internal Journey” (2009) but reading reviews of it and listening to “Various… Continue Reading →
A totally new name to me, this French hybrid crew (I think it translates roughly as See How They Fall) introduce themselves with a brooding but unspectacular four minute Prelude before they kick off properly with Wanderer Of Eternity. It’s… Continue Reading →
“Baise Moi” were indeed the words uttered from my lips on hearing a couple of weeks ago that this film had been recently passed completely uncut by the BBFC for the first time in the UK. This really had me… Continue Reading →
If you took one look at this album and had to guess, I reckon most of us would go for ‘old school black metal’ as the contents. An Ildjarn friendly racket? This however is actually, according to the PR, dark… Continue Reading →
Darkenhöld, although relative newcomers to the scene are no slouches when it comes to releasing material, already having 3 split albums and now two full length releases under their belts since their inception in 2008, bringing us to present day… Continue Reading →
Pulvis et Umbra?’ Direct translation care of a Latin O level done about 30 years ago? We are dust and shadows; well, that’s certainly doom laden. Surtr, a variation of Surtur, inspiration for Amon Amarth’s last album and an ancient… Continue Reading →
Back in the late-90s, a phrase would often crop up in reviews of black/death metal albums – ‘Dissection clone’. By and large, this was spot-on. In the wake of Dissection’s landmark second album ‘Storm of the Light’s Bane’, a whole… Continue Reading →
Supuration are a band who have inhabited the French death metal scene for quite some time. In fact, they started out way back in 1989 as Esticoxe before deciding to change monicker, and eventually releasing their debut in 1993. One… Continue Reading →
Anyone fancy a blast of experimental, instrumental black metal which produces “a feeling, as if the mind of the listener, dragged into the music, were unable of concentrate itself or were experiencing a powerful hallucinogen effect”? Thought so. Having lurked… Continue Reading →