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Cradle Of Filth – Existence Is Futile (Nuclear Blast)

I just realised when I started listening to this that the last time I saw these guys was 2 years ago at the London Palladium, and it was one of the last gigs I went to, as there were only… Continue Reading →

Funeral Chasm – Omniversal Existence (Aesthetic Death)

This Danish duo consist of Sjaelepest (guitars) and Danny Woe (everything else). They are both in Pagan black group Above Ravens and Danny has played, past and present with such artists as Woebegone Obscured, Altar Of Oblivion and Rimfrost. This… Continue Reading →

Karcinoma – Invictus (Wroth Emitter)

The Russian metal scene is always interesting, but I tend to associate it mostly with brutal death metal, and it is these death/black metal elements that I remember most clearly about Karcinoma’s 1998 debut ‘The Night… Apogee of Madness’ although… Continue Reading →

Nightfall – At Night We Prey (Season of Mist)

Greek legends Nightfall have provided a staple and reliable output for the past three decades and a new arrival from them is always something to celebrate. Go back to 1992’s Parade into Centuries, and you will see an album steeped… Continue Reading →

Lake Of Tears – Ominous (AFM)

Label-defying, genre-mashing Metal band Lake Of Tears have been quiet since “Illwill” way back in 2011 – but then 9 albums over a period of almost 30 years isn’t the most hastened of workloads. But in that time over those… Continue Reading →

Tribulation – Where the Gloom Becomes Sound (Century Media)

Gothic horror would be something I’d associate with Swedish band Tribulation but as they proved when releasing “Children of the Night” (2015), my favourite of theirs, and “Down Below” (2018), each album is a varied metal experience. “Where the Gloom… Continue Reading →

Regardless Of Me – Black Flowers Blossom (Boersma Records)

Including their 2009 debut, Italian Metal band Regardless Of Me have released 4 albums on 4 different labels, but I’m sorry to admit that this is the first one of theirs I have heard. I saw that they are Italian,… Continue Reading →

Paradise Lost – Obsidian (Nuclear Blast)

Sixteen albums… That amounts to an album released every other year of Paradise Lost’s 32-year career. Granted there are some longer breaks than a year, but that’s because they released 7 in in the 1990s. Not only prolific, but damned… Continue Reading →

Katatonia – City Burials (Peaceville)

After a short hiatus these erstwhile Swedes have returned to the fray, though I daresay nobody noticed they were actually gone. Personally, I lost track of them in the early-noughties around the time of “Viva Emptiness”. It was around this… Continue Reading →

The Medea Project – Sisyphus (S/R)

Their bio says that while they are currently in Nottingham, UK, they hail from the east coast of South Africa, which I have an issue with, as that’s over 2000km worth of coast to figure out where they come from…. Continue Reading →

On Thorns I Lay – Threnos (Lifeforce Records)

This is the 9th album by this 25 year old Greek band. Granted this may be the first album of theirs that I’m actually listening to, but I was aware of their existence owing to their contemporaries which I follow… Continue Reading →

Stråle – Bourbon Souls (FDA Records)

It might come as a surprise to those who frequent the hallowed pages of Ave Noctum to see yours truly doing a review for a band on F.D.A, a renowned Death Metal label. Not least myself. But as the description… Continue Reading →

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