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Few bands elicit more of a buzz when it comes to a new release than Darkthrone, a band who truly needs no introduction. ‘Astral Fortress’ follows on from last years ‘Eternal Hails…’ and continues Fenriz and Nocturno Culto’s long running… Continue Reading →
Back on the slab and casting musical Y shaped incisions, everyone’s favourite revolting death metal surgeons return with their first full length album since 2015 release ‘Skull Grinder’. There has been one replacement since that outing with Greg Wilkinson the… Continue Reading →
By album number twelve most fans of Sigh should be well aware that taking anything for granted is a foolish folly. I was well aware that even a week’s intensive listening here was not going to do more than scratch… Continue Reading →
It’s a pathologist’s worse nightmare. The body is laid out on the slab, the y-shaped incision is made, rib-cage prized open and removal of organs commences. Up to nuts in guts and carefully placing, liver, lungs and other offal in… Continue Reading →
No shortage of “Wisdom” as far as Italian cultists Mortuary Drape are concerned. They have been ushering devotees through the musical veil to the other side of their rotten drape for the best part of 35 years now. Although still… Continue Reading →
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band’s formation, Katatonia have released Mnemosynean, an offering to the goddess of memory. Encompassing 2 CDs, this extensive collection of rarities, B-sides, unused album songs, special edition bonuses, covers and remixes, will delight… Continue Reading →
No doubt remembering those past Transilvanian days when all their fans wrote letters to them by snail mail Darkthrone have decided to give their 19th studio album a sardonic title. They could have gone the whole hog and called it… Continue Reading →
If a lot of traditional Norwegian black metal is a mass of thorny bushes growing from the rich Norwegian loam, becoming tangled up and like a single mass, Mork are the ones who stand apart: Superficially the same but get… Continue Reading →
We all have certain albums that had a huge impact on us, Severed Survival is one of mine. Aged around fifteen I walked into a closing down sale at a record shop in my local town. Hidden behind a load… Continue Reading →
You could throw a bowling ball into a forest and get a complete strike as it hurtles through the trees knocking one-man black metal outfits over like ten pins. What about those who play thrash though and go it alone?… Continue Reading →
There are some bands who I view as too trve for your average festival line up and Morta Skuld are one of them. They’re the sort of artist you’d find on a Maryland Deathfest or OEF line up and those… Continue Reading →
After a short hiatus these erstwhile Swedes have returned to the fray, though I daresay nobody noticed they were actually gone. Personally, I lost track of them in the early-noughties around the time of “Viva Emptiness”. It was around this… Continue Reading →