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Horna should need no introduction to any fan of extreme music, having been stalwarts of the Finnish, if not global, black metal scene for the last 30 years. During that time, they have unleashed ten studio albums and countless splits,… Continue Reading →
Vimur has been on my radar for quite some time though I must admit I’ve not really given them the attention they probably deserve, but this will now change after listening to their fourth magnificent slab of melodic black metal…. Continue Reading →
So if you’ve never heard of them and find not even an entry on Metal Archives and wonder what Season Of mist are doing releasing it… well, yes, it’s that thing which in black metal circles shall never be called… Continue Reading →
Alfahanne return with their sixth album. Known for mixing black metal, classic rock and punk styles along with melodic grooves and bleak atmospheres, “Vår tid är nu” (Our Time is Now) is marketed as their heaviest album so far. A… Continue Reading →
Some things really are just what they are supposed to be. Regardless of outside pressures they have a direction and an attitude that is so assured in its purpose that notions of trend or just the passage of time are… Continue Reading →
Ever since I got my hands on a copy of 2020’s Fragment: Erhabenheit I have been hooked on this Austrian black metal horde so I jumped at the chance to review the latest spawn from these black arts purveyors, Theotoxin…. Continue Reading →
Norwegian act Liktjern, whose name I think translates as Mortuary or to that effect, have not had it easy. Despite being in existence since the mid-90s the band only released one EP, ‘Kulde, Pest & Død’, and that came in… Continue Reading →
Chamber Of Unlight have unleashed their latest opus, ‘Realm Of The Night’, and it is a mesmerising cacophony of grandiose synth, pounding string work, punishing percussion and ravenous vocals, a truly crushing aural attack on your tympanums. From ‘Premium’ to… Continue Reading →
In a black metal world where the genre has virtually every sub-genre type you can conjure up Finland’s Ondfødt are possibly the purist form of black metal you’ll hear in recent years. There’s no trickery here, no polluting sub-genre stains… Continue Reading →
We should have been invaded by filthy Finns this weekend and had the delights of an already postponed show from Sargeist and Behexen. Alas it was never to be and the plague carriers have been scuppered by that thing that… Continue Reading →
15 years between albums is a long time in anyone’s book but Trollheims Grot were not a band I had forgotten in all those years as I fondly remembered covering their excellent last release Bloodsoaked And Ill Fated way back… Continue Reading →
Outlaw were formed 3 years ago in Finland, Outlaw take influence from US Power Metal, the NWOBHM scene and traditional metal, a-la classic 80’s Priest and Maiden. From the initial track, ‘Hell’s Thunder’, vocalist Lee Anvel sounds like a cross… Continue Reading →