Tag Germany
This is German metal punk, a filthy fury of aggression that I made first reference to on their ‘Raw Nights’ release. This is more gutter level than perhaps the more well-known sounds of a band like Midnight and not quite… Continue Reading →
Grábakr, from which the name Grabak is derived, refers to one of the serpents who resides within the roots of Yggdrasil from the Poetic Edda and Nordic mythology. With a name like this, you might think that the band are… Continue Reading →
Female fronted doom, vicar? Well, it’s a worn path, and one that can be trod well from time time. Personally, I was a massive fan of 90’s one-album wonders, UK doomers Mourn and their incredible music. Flame, Dear Flame hail… Continue Reading →
This German act caught the attention of many with their second album .neon due to the fact that Alcest singer Neige joined them and they forged a not dissimilar path with their post black flavoured output. However, one had a… Continue Reading →
Ah another day when your very ‘eavy, very ‘umble scribe turns round to find everyone else has walked forward while I’ve walked sideways. Hmm. This six tracker from relatively new but productive Berlin band Praise The Plague is sent PR… Continue Reading →
Berlin thrashers, Space Chaser have been banging about since 2011 and their third LP, “Give Us Life” continues their head banging journey. Unashamedly old school, the flag for Teutonic thrash is being held high by this five-piece outfit. They explode… Continue Reading →
New to me, but not new to the world of metal are Agrypnie, a long-standing progressive/post-black metal band from Germany. The project’s beginnings date back as far as 2004, when vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Torsten Hirsch started out all on his own. Although… Continue Reading →
I kinda grabbed this as WWI based black metal with a cover reminiscent of some old VoiVod album appealed as did the name Canon Fever. Debut too from a one-man band from Bavaria. Blackened death always kinda worries me for… Continue Reading →
So, for the last eighteen months or so we have had to unite and take on whatever the world has had to throw at us in its own twisted deliverance, and most of us thought there couldn’t possibly be anything… Continue Reading →
Three albums in three successive years, the momentum in the Temple Of Dread camp shows no signs of abating as does the creative energy on this third full length. Why change an already successful template when it delivers such top-quality… Continue Reading →
I thought I was pretty clued up when it came to black metal, especially atmospheric black metal, but I have to hang my head in shame and admit Friisk were a new proposition to me even though they have an… Continue Reading →
Not entirely sure how it happened what with my vociferous denunciation of all things bollocks pirate and metal, but I seem to have become Ave Noctum’s official foreign correspondent from the shore of Tortuga. I’ve reviewed two out of three… Continue Reading →