Tag Norway
Thinking back to 2009, when Krakow first emerged from Bergen, Norway (despite being named after a Polish city), their debut ‘Monolith’ didn’t really tread any new ground, but was a promising slab of weighty stoner/doom metal that spoke of huge… Continue Reading →
Following up on last year’s EP ‘Norrønasongen. Kosmopolis Nord’ Solefald have completely expanded their reach from the more insular travelogue that took in the traditions and folklore of the Norse centric regions and explored their chilly terrain with a progressive… Continue Reading →
I was toying with the idea of trying a few new metal pastures this year after a fairly ‘black’ year last year. But sometimes you just have to follow where those foetid winds take you and, three weeks into the… Continue Reading →
Just when you thought it was safe to stick two fingers up to the year that was 2014 and tell it to do one the Bergen Blacksters that are Taake unleash their sixth studio album and remind you that it’s… Continue Reading →
It’s black and on Black Forest Records, that should give you some idea what to expect in the way of pine scented glory from this EP. Hailing from Norway but also with further flung help which I shall get to… Continue Reading →
Debut full length from Norwegian Spectral Haze is a nauseatingly trippy slice of psychedelia. With so many bands currently all trying their hand at this genre, it’s easy for stuff to pass you by, however, the blatant Hawkwind and Monster… Continue Reading →
Revolving around the talents of Roy Mathisen (ex-Taake) on vocals, bass, guitars and synth the act is rounded off with Jørn Tunsberg (Hades Almighty, ex-Immortal, ex-Old Funeral) on guitar and Frode Gaustad on drums this darkly industrial act with hugely… Continue Reading →
If I had a pound for every press release I have read that promised ‘True Black Metal’ I’d be reasonably financially comfortable. It’s a common and almost always empty promise these days and as a result I tend to pay… Continue Reading →
Chances are you have never heard of this rather obscure Norwegian entity but if I told you their roots spread right back in time to the early 90’s when the black metal scene in the country started going all weird… Continue Reading →
Luckily I live in a detached house. I’m not gloating or anything – it’s my potential neighbours I’m thinking of, because when an album like Triosphere’s 3rd release “The Heart Of The Matter” comes along (a bit like I felt… Continue Reading →
Mysticum are a band who made their name off the back of one album, an album which took industrial soundscapes and infused cosmic black metal into it, a cubic fuckton of evil and an overdose of class A drug abuse,… Continue Reading →
I was very impressed with Posthum’s last album, 2012’s ‘Light’s Out’ and with their approach to black metal in general which draws on the many varied takes on the genre. It was an album that rather predictably split opinion, with… Continue Reading →