Tag Holland
The man with a band, a choir and enough guest musicians to form a football team is back. Tom de Wit is nothing but prolific, but with that it must be said that he bursts with ideas, branching out from… Continue Reading →
Dark underground black metal is the offering from Dutch band Kaeck, whose second album this is, six years on from their debut “Stormkult”. The occult, black magic and rituals interest them. The style is old school. The riffage is deep… Continue Reading →
It’s one of those things, when a band’s name lays its table out. There’s an expectation that naturally pops into one’s mind. Extreme Cold Winter is a moniker that reflects a sound, a vibe, an aura of brutality. These Dutchmen… Continue Reading →
The black flag is the primary symbol of anarchist movements and of resistance in general. The polar opposite of the white flag, it says that its bearer won’t surrender and will show its opponent no mercy. Black flags fluttering in… Continue Reading →
Dutch death metal eh? That used to be quite the thing, once upon a time. Gorefest, for example, almost cracked the mainstream during the late 90’s. Apparently, Bloodphemy formed way back at the turn of the millennia, but disbanded a… Continue Reading →
You can always rely on I, Voidhanger to unleash some of the darkest, terrifying musical assaults that you will ever bear witness to, as Dutch blackened death metallers Defacement release their sophomore. Songs on their debut were relatively short compared… Continue Reading →
I could have sworn I had tackled Dutch ‘whisperers’ Fluisteraars in the past review wise but realised I had been getting them muddled up with countrymen Fluisterwoud who actually split up in 2009. An easy mistake I guess but one… Continue Reading →
Arguably, never has an artist had so many projects as Maurice de Jong. Perhaps the most well-known of them is Gnaw Their Tongues. “A Lightless Crown Shuns the Crown of Divinity” is a symphonic black metal work from this man… Continue Reading →
Sometimes a band gets the crappy end of the reviewing stick just because of timing. I mean can you imagine trying to review a black metal album when you really, really can’t face much music at all. Hence the lateness… Continue Reading →
The Monolith Deathcult’s formula is one that would miserably fail in the wrong hands. A sonic carpet bomb of death metal with cinematic samples, waves of electronic pulses, orchestral sweeps and industrial structures… and even a sense of humour. On… Continue Reading →
It’s just a bit over a year that AAfCC released their last full-length, and here they are presenting us with another one, their second on Prosthetic Records and their ninth in total. Too much too soon? Maybe. But what is… Continue Reading →
There’s something in the air around Utrecht in the Netherlands. It has spawned Laster, Verval, Nusquama and now Grey Aura. Active since 2010, “Zwart Vierkant” (Black Square) is the atmospheric black metal band’s second album following the snappily titled 2014… Continue Reading →