Tag My Dying Bride
This atmospheric BM duo hail from St Petersburg. A, takes on all instruments whilst K supplies the vocals. Very Men in Black! Their second release is Immersion on Naturmacht Productions. Them’s the facts now onto an opinion. This 4 track… Continue Reading →
I remember hearing this for the first time 20 years ago and immediately falling in love with “Sear Me MCMXCIII” and “Black God” and needing to get a copy of the album. Now back in South Africa in the late… Continue Reading →
Dark Melancholic Metal from Germany – and the band’s debut no less! It wasn’t so long ago that Finland had the monopoly on Dark Metal, and sure the opening track does show that Embercrow have indeed, at some point, been… Continue Reading →
This is the Polish ‘dark Satanic metal’ troupe who have been going for couple of decades and who put out ‘Misanthropy’ last year. This however is a re-release of their 1994 debut full length. ‘For some reason’ is what I… Continue Reading →
Ukrainian newcomers Mental Torment are right at home on Solitude. As the cover would suggest, ‘On The Verge…’ is murky, despondent doom-death in the funereal vein, full of giant, crashing riffs and plunging dirges. The theme of the album is… Continue Reading →
We are generally a quite cheery and agreeable bunch at Ave Noctum, (notwithstanding music related pub arguments), so it was quite a surprise to see the reaction when this one landed in the office. Several members of staff were laying… Continue Reading →
You’ve got to admire Atrocity for being totally un-taggable! You can’t pigeon-hole Atrocity…usually because the band themselves don’t really know what particular genre their next album will be! They’ve given us albums in the style of Death/Industrial/Gothic/Technical Death/Folk/Dark…you get the… Continue Reading →
As last album by these fantastically named slushers ended up in my review pile it was natural that I picked the new one out from the pile of discs sent over courtesy of Russian label Solitude Productions and their associated… Continue Reading →
With a title like this, it’s perhaps inevitable that the basic fare on offer is slow and sludgy doom. Malta’s Victims of Creation are an interesting band, having started out in 1992 but having a 13 year gap before re-starting… Continue Reading →
With a name like This Misery Garden you know you’re not in for a rib-tickling laugh-fest, but which particular area of musical misery do this Swiss Metal band occupy on their second release? From the outset a heavy nod towards… Continue Reading →
To my shame, I’ve not heard any Officium Triste until now, despite this being the Dutch crews fifth full length album. I’d seen the name about here and there, but had pretty much written them off on the grounds that… Continue Reading →
This is the first full release from Italian band Your Tomorrow Alone whose gothic-progressive output recalls the likes of Paradise Lost, Anathema and Trail of Tears. “Ordinary Lives” was a case of much promise and lost momentum. The promise was… Continue Reading →