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Ah this takes us back to dark medieval times. Remember those photo shoots in the early years of black metal with people posing with swords and wearing armour in castles all with shifty looks in their eyes? They had to… Continue Reading →
Ave Noctum’s Mark Eve recently caught up with Destroyer, bass player for UKBM war machine, Eastern Front for a quick chat about the stonking new record – ‘Descent Into Genocide’ AN: What have people’s responses to the new album been… Continue Reading →
It’s been almost four years since debut album ‘Blood On Snow’ was unleashed and we have been looking forward to new material from this English troop formed in Ipswich for some time. One of the reasons it has taken a… Continue Reading →
The world needs mavericks… nay, eccentrics like Slough Feg (ne The Lord Weird Slough Feg). If you have never heard them an off the cuff one liner is difficult: There be a bit of a Celtic folk influence somewhere for… Continue Reading →
Has it really been three years since ‘On Divine Winds’?! That epic took us away from Europe and into the Pacific theatre of World War Two. Stylistically it was much more polished than the band’s grim debut ‘…Of Frost and… Continue Reading →
I think it’s safe to say that Damned When Dead by Mael Mordha is not just one of the year’s most enthralling releases, but also one of the most passionate, imaginative and epic. With so much drama and history within,… Continue Reading →
The Monolith Deathcult’s new album Tetragrammaton redefines ‘over-the-top’ combing colossal death metal song-writing with more samples than Fear Factory and Ministry’s coke-addled lovechild. With love of keyboards, The Transformers and a manifest mission to delight and divide it is not… Continue Reading →
There is a wealth of almost hidden treasure to be found within the French Canadian Quebec region as far as black metal is concerned and listening to many bands from their lately it has reminded of the excitement felt as… Continue Reading →
I’m sure I can’t be alone in listening to an album I haven’t heard for some time and wondering why on earth I hadn’t played it more. Such is the case with “Seigneries des Loups” (2010) by this French-Canadian black… Continue Reading →
For their latest representation of warmongering, Humiliation take us to the depths of the sea. The themes of this latest album by the Malaysians are distinctly nautical. From the Bukit Kepong incident of “From Strength to Strength”, the previous album,… Continue Reading →
A little history is in order here so if you just want the album review skip to paragraph two! Taiwan’s Chthonic seem to get on some Westerners’ wrong side. Some of it is the usual knuckledragging misogyny (they have the… Continue Reading →
Whilst Amon Amarth clearly split opinion in the Ave Noctum office, there are enough of us who enjoy their work enough to spark a Viking battle; the likes of which they will probably write about on their next album. After… Continue Reading →