Tag Melechesh
It’s something of an understatement so say that this album has been highly anticipated – by me and a growing band of Melechesh acolytes. No band to my knowledge has quite managed to engineer the combination of eastern scales with… Continue Reading →
Citing the likes of Nile, Cannibal Corpse and Behemoth amongst their inspirations, this stuck out like a sore thumb amongst my review pile for getting fast tracking to my ol’ lug holes with priority. Veilburner’s debut album is packed with… Continue Reading →
Greek black metal has built a universe all of its own over the past two decades and Varathron has provided several of the grandest pillars to that cosmos. Stefan ‘Necroabyssious’ and crew have been bolstering the sheer depth of quality… Continue Reading →
Meaning ‘hatred/revenge’ in the band’s native language, Kannada, the Indians of Dhwesha have been gradually gearing up for their debut album since 2008. Incorporating the members’ interest in their culture’s history and mythology, it seems pretty fair to say that… Continue Reading →
These Austrians have been a band that I have always had a very fleeting interest in but never paid much attention to. On the occasions that one of their albums has come by it has always had the once over,… Continue Reading →
‘Hrizg’ is Orcish for ‘pain’ apparently, so it’s fitting that the project is a one-man black metal band, hailing in this case from Spain and masterminded by one Erun-Dagoth. Whilst there are some Mediterranean influences to be found however, for… Continue Reading →
Damn! Now that’s a piece of cover art! The very first thing that drew me in to Craven Idol was the beautiful work of Paolo Girardi certainly, but taking into consideration the fact that they’ve hooked up with Dark Descent… Continue Reading →
There has always been a bit of a geographic conundrum involving Italian band Ecnephias but then again as this album is narratively focusing on ancient pre-Christian cults they could hardly have embraced their Roman origins here. Musically having heard them… Continue Reading →
Acherontas help to form a phalanx of Greek black metal bands with a progressive purpose and a grim determination to expose us all to their black arts. Moving in the wake of ground-breaking countrymen Rotting Christ and Septicflesh, Acherontas forms… Continue Reading →
This is the debut album from Australian death metal crew Eternal Rest, though judging by the proficiency of their songwriting and the impressive way they can musically slap you about the face to get your attention, you’d think these guys… Continue Reading →
Darkrise were an unknown quantity to me before pressing play on their new release, even though ‘Realeyes’ is in fact the fourth full length album from this Swiss five piece since they formed back in the late 90s. Hell, I’ll… Continue Reading →
Dark Oriental metal, blackened death metal, doom/death metal…. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many erroneous descriptions of a band’s music floating around. Certainly none of those would be helpful here on this, a re-recording of old Bilocate tracks… Continue Reading →