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Are those orchids on the front cover? Isn’t this supposed to be a black metal album? What’s going on? These are all questions that would have been raised if you’ve been living in the mountains and listening to nothing but… Continue Reading →
Having set their sights on Russia, Japan and North Africa most recently, it was now time for Ave Noctum to fall in the firing line of Hail Of Bullets’ immense armoury. Rather than the blood, shit and severed limbs which… Continue Reading →
Surprisingly, this is Dimaeon’s first full album in their eleven years of existence. The cv so far from these prolific live performers from The Netherlands shows that they have previously released two eps, taken part in a split “Frisian Metal… 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 →
Part 2 Sunday 6 October Sunday came, and the first band to perform was Malicious Dream from the host country. Every year the organisers pull impressive local bands out of the bag. This, unfortunately, wasn’t one of them. The music… Continue Reading →
Part 1 Friday and Saturday ProgPower Europe has been part of my calendar since 2005. I’ve always looked forward to my annual pilgrimage to this top quality event. In the main, this year’s list of bands left me a bit… Continue Reading →
This is a re-release of this Dutch bands one and only album from 1989. Unfortunately originally released during traditional metal’s decline in favour of thrash in the late 80’s, this band were doing the rounds with other notable countrymen of… Continue Reading →
For fans of a certain epic Dutch female-fronted band, the phrase ‘featuring two ex-God Dethroned members’ might ring a bell. In the case of Kill Division, who feature two different alumni of Henri Sattler’s extinct beast, this phrase makes a… Continue Reading →
With a full length and demo out already my first experience of this Dutch outfit is this nicely packaged digipack CD with two tunes of fairly melodic black metal that opens abruptly with “Peace Through Power”. The sound is crisp… Continue Reading →
Formed in 1997, this Dutch melodic death metal band has a healthy back catalogue of demos and mini cd’s, this current release is a rather tasty slab of metal right from the first listen. Death metal can easily be technical… Continue Reading →
The name Bodyfarm first appeared on my radar with last year’s ‘Malevolence’ debut. As I still haven’t heard that one in its entirety, ‘The Coming Scourge’ popped up as an interesting opportunity to get to know the band a lot… Continue Reading →
I have to get this out of the way. Plough is an awful name for a band. Unless you are a Metal Wurzels tribute act. It conjures up memories of harvest festival at junior school which I have had therapy… Continue Reading →