William Roussel aka Meyhnach aka Melancholic Lord of Torments aka Guru Dreadlock is a French multi-instrumentalist and vocalist and a man of many names and bands. He touted infamy as a member of Les Légions Noires, gaining notoriety for Mutiilation… Continue Reading →
There’s more than a whiff of lunacy within the French extreme music scene. If you look at bands like Anorexia Nervosa, Carnival In Coal, Pensees Nocturnes & The CNK, just to name a few, they are all a sandwich short… Continue Reading →
Mix black metal with punk and the French predilection for the bizarre and the grotesque, and you get an opener which sounds like Enslaved. Born largely of the eccentric Doctor Livingstone and Arkhon Infaustus, Sektemtum have released this album as… Continue Reading →
Having been in existence for 11 years now, and with this being their fifth full length album, my own experience of Pestilential Shadows’ work has been as fleeting as their new album’s title – having heard a mere track on… 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 →
A very good warning is never to watch the film Jacob’s Ladder on LSD, especially not on first viewing. That said you should also probably never listen to Hell Militia on LSD either, not that this scribe dabbles in such… Continue Reading →