Tag Norway
Hailing from Trondheim in Norway and proving that the area has many more styles played by the bands in the area than the obvious ones people would expect The Hate Colony describe themselves as ‘metalcoreish.’ The biog also mentions that… Continue Reading →
For those who misguidedly believe death metal to be a one dimensional form of music I present Norway’s Execration. Their third album, the aptly titled ‘Morbid Dimensions’, blew me away when I received it for review a couple of weeks… Continue Reading →
Manes undoubtedly come from the Norwegian planet, inhabited by Atrox, Green Carnation, Audrey Horne and others, where life is seen from an odd and oblique angle. My only previous exposure to this band, who have now released four albums and… Continue Reading →
By now anyone with a passing interest in Black Metal and not just the historians should know the significance of 1349’s name so I am not going to be one of those reviewers that starts off pointing it out (what… Continue Reading →
These Norwegians are already the proud fathers of two previous experimental death metal releases – 2008’s ‘Syndicates of Lethargy’ and 2011’s ‘Odes of the Occult’. Having missed the pleasure of both these, ‘Morbid Dimensions’ is my introduction to the group…. Continue Reading →
As was so often repeated on the classic comedy series `Monty Python’s Flying Circus’, and now for something completely different… Diskord are certainly a unique prospect; for a start, a Norwegian extreme metal band that doesn’t play Black Metal (they… Continue Reading →
What happens when you mix a healthy offering of the blues with some bits of classic rock, stoner rock, doom and psychedelia for good measure? You get Lonely Kamel. The Norwegian four piece have a few albums out already and… Continue Reading →
Hailing from Norway, the Oslo based, four piece hard rockers Lonely Kamel take inspiration from doom, psychadellica, stoner rock, classic rock and the blues and mash it together for their fourth full length offering, “Shit City”. With a sound which… Continue Reading →
Cold, crisp melodic black metal here from this Bergen-based troupe, the crystalline-clear chilliness seeming to embody the windswept coastal city from which they hail. ‘Solace’ is the embodiment of a band with firm ideas of how they wish to sound… Continue Reading →
Y’know now I think about it I’m sure Purple Hill Witch was the answer I got when I did a ‘What Is Your Stoner band name’ internet quiz. Ahem. Anyway: Hailing from Oslo, and either named after a mound covered… Continue Reading →
Yes you probably have this already, either the first time around or at the least a reissue but there is plenty of reason to breathe some new life back into Emperor’s seminal 1994 debut studio album In The Nightside Eclipse… Continue Reading →
Insense are a four piece from Oslo, Norway who were once championed by In Flames front man Anders Fridén who claimed the first time he heard them, he wanted more. Fast forward to the present day, and Insense now offer… Continue Reading →