Tag I Voidhanger
Not, in fact, a crap swinging site for those in the farming community, Ploughshare are a nasty black / death metal band from Australia and are back hot off the heels of their 2018 debut full-length “In Offal, Salvation”, and… Continue Reading →
So what’s your definition of symphonic black metal? Dimmu Borgir? Cradle Of Filth in their more extravagant moments? Well for me my favourite style is this incarnation of Australian mastermind Dis Pater, though of course being the man of musical… Continue Reading →
Has anyone got any Clearasil? Yes it is the sort of name you might expect from a gangrene enthused grind band but there is perhaps a clue in the word “weeping” as this trio from NYC are a doom death… Continue Reading →
This is the second album from Texans Haunter, who have been going for 6 years. Identified points of reference for this band are Gorguts and Immolation, but that’s just the death metal element. The album unleashes without delay a ball… Continue Reading →
French duo Vague and Avitus who comprise this enigmatic black metal outfit have constructed a debut release that is as ferocious as it is utterly beguiling and enthralling. Within the five compositions the band has developed their own sonic tapestry… Continue Reading →
The use of symphonic or orchestrated elements in Metal is something that as the years have gone by has become more prevalent. I feel that for the most part it represents a sort of mainstream accessibility giving listeners catchy hooks… Continue Reading →
The world of metal certainly doesn’t avoid difficult subjects, or subjects the majority of people shy away from. In fact, you could say metal seeks those subjects out. Yet, the album at hand takes difficult subjects to an entirely new… Continue Reading →
It’s pretty sad to say that I never got to live through the sort of ‘golden age of Metal’ if you will. In fact I didn’t even get to live through the underground tape trading days of the 80’s, you… Continue Reading →
I always appreciate a bit of swirling chaos of a bleak mid-winter evening so this glorious second wind for Entheogen’s self-release last year couldn’t be better timed. As a baseline for what promises to be a cracking year in extreme… Continue Reading →
What to bond over as metalheads when you meet a stranger in a strange land? Metal of course. Black Metal in this case. Ukrainian Markov Soroka and Uzbek Nyzam Salimbayev met in the US, both immigrants, and discovered that, apart… Continue Reading →
Every now and again an album arrives that grabs me by the face and gives it a good hard slap. Others then proceed to sink their steel-capped, razor sharp teeth in to the succulent mortal flesh and don’t let go…. Continue Reading →
Razor sharp and deep into the abyss with its chasmic echoes, Suspiral set about representing chaos. They describe it as “the earthly manifestation of spiritual dimensions existing beyond Death”. “Poisonous Essence” is languid, extreme, at times frenetic and from a… Continue Reading →