Tag Old Corpse Road
Armed with some slightly altered Dylan Thomas poetry, Ofnus are a new entity but one with roots in other groups such as Agrona, Democratus, Blind Divide & Black Pyre. Very much in the mould of similar UK based bands like… Continue Reading →
Sunday Day 3 The final day and nine more cool bands to watch started with Thy Dying Light on a much cooler day than the previous two. Their stripped back primal black metal possessed a dirty dissonant feel as they… Continue Reading →
A couple of years ago, a certain Mr Steve Blackwood, he of…well, a multitude of bands in the UKBM scene here and there but most definitely of the rightly respected Old Corpse Road released the first album from his solo… Continue Reading →
The day dawns, a low mist of hangover drifts across the campsite and us delicate flowers who slept in a proper bed wander in for breakfast and to make sure no one froze or drowned the night before. Stuffed with… Continue Reading →
Bit behind the curve on this. Some of you may remember me raving about the Blood Countess demo back in 2019 with the charmingly named The Cuntess on vocals (Eastern Front, Daemona). Been a rocky old time and now in… Continue Reading →
Due to….stuff… for the first time you will, on reading this review, be able to rush out and immediately buy this album as it is out. And you will, won’t you? Why? Well… Reworked logo and on their new label… Continue Reading →
Hurtling into the melodic black metal sub-genre this fairly new Croatian act has penned a debut album that harks back to the origins of the genre but enhances all their songs with a quirkiness and atmosphere that few are able… Continue Reading →
I first came across the curiously named And Now The Owls Are Smiling, the project of Norfolk based Nre, while delving down the rabbit hole of UKBM and finding his first album Despair and was rather taken by his atmospheric… Continue Reading →
Manchester’s Rebellion venue is rapidly becoming something of a second home for me and on this occasion I trekked across the Pennines once more, this time to bear witness to Skyforger and their raid upon our fair shores. Unfortunately an… Continue Reading →
Well rested and well fed, my host Ross and myself went to watch Vikings and Saxons march through York and then batter each other with lumps of metal outside the Castle Museum. Seemed a perfect way to prepare for the… Continue Reading →
Friday 22/9 Ah, the first full day session, and a bright day in Selby. Fed and watered we arrived to a slight delay due to Petrichor sadly having to pull out because of personnel issues. So first up we had… Continue Reading →
This triple bill of black metal covered a wide spectrum within the genre that began with local act Mountains Crave who have made huge improvements musically since I last saw them converting their wealth of live experience into this accomplished… Continue Reading →