Tag France
Considering that No Return have had a career spanning over 20 years and 8 full length albums, I figured that the fact that I had not heard of them up until the point that this landed on my desk would… Continue Reading →
I enjoyed the last Grisâtre release L’idée de Dieu which also came out on Dusktone. It was my first encounter with Rokkr the individual behind the project from France despite the fact he had been active on the demo front… Continue Reading →
French flair and an edge sharpened on the Eastern plains: Fhoi Myore is a black metal band with a journey to make. It may be a frost bitten, bleak trek across snow capped Nordic mountains and down towards the sprawling… Continue Reading →
France really does seem to be a hotbed of creative, imaginative and intense extreme metal these days; there are so many interesting bands to choose from, it is hard to know where to start. One good place though would be… Continue Reading →
They say never judge a book by its cover (amongst other things). In the case of `Only Hate Left’, the fourth album by French death metal pummelists, any snap judgements you might make on glancing at the cover will only… Continue Reading →
Upon reading the name of this band for the first time, I immediately lost myself in a minor frenzy of World War Two related excitement. Surely the ‘scars’ on Murmansk involved would be those inflicted upon this unfortunate Russian city… Continue Reading →
Helping to permeate the heat of this disgusting American summer as of late has been France’s Ysengrin, who are apparently versed at the art of chilling bones through song. Please note the singular use of the word song here, as… Continue Reading →
With an unusual sounding band name comes an unusual album. I’d seen this second album from the French band described as “melodic death metal” but this is much more than that. There’s a bit of everything here. The sound is… Continue Reading →
Taking their name from an H.P. Lovecraft fictional city and looking at the cover (brilliantly visualised by Seth Siron Anton) and title maybe a bit of Clive Barker too, I was intrigued to hear what this band sounded like. The… Continue Reading →
In my boggling mind, I imagined “Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow” to have something industrial, futuristic and perhaps bordering on the apocalyptic about it. Well, extreme metal it is from the French band with elements of the above. What I did hear… Continue Reading →
A little background: Obviously Sonisphere UK was cancelled this year, and from the outside looking in, it seemed squarely down to greed. To change the format from a two day event with a fair number of decent bands to a… Continue Reading →
Deathspell Omega. Champions of the Emperor’s new clothes to some, grand innovators of occultist BM to others. 2007’s ‘Fas…’ always struck me as an almost impenetrably dense album, promising arcane wisdom but delivering only ecstatic dementia, sardonically laughing in the… Continue Reading →