Tag Poland
I don’t normally get my hands on the more brutal death metal releases but this one turned up just before Xmas, got a play and then got a few more, keeping my levels of anger in balance over the festive… Continue Reading →
Following on from the recent release of Polish black metal trio THAW’s sophomore album, the band have also put out a compilation, comprising their first demo ‘Decay’ and an EP ‘Advance’. ‘Decay’ was originally self-released by the band and contained… Continue Reading →
When it comes to black metal, Poland are a country that really can’t go wrong; from the likes of Cultes Des Ghoules to Mgła, it seems they’re a nation that have perfected the art without paying too much homage to… Continue Reading →
The first thing that struck about this album was the fact that I was actually holding it in my hands. Second was the quality of the digipack box containing it. I guess I’m just getting nostalgic for tactile music, but… Continue Reading →
It’s about time. Vesania entered my psyche with two distinctive symphonic style black metal albums “God the Lux” (2005) and “Distractive Killusions” (2007). Now after seven years, they’re back with “Deus ex Machina”. The titles are spartan: Halflight, Innocence, Disillusion,… Continue Reading →
Poland has long been a source of consistently executed extreme metal, and like an emblem of this phenomenon is Witchmaster. Formed by band founder Geryon in 1996, today’s line-up includes Reyash of Christ Agony/Vader fame and the return of drumming… Continue Reading →
Dying Vision is a group of musicians from Poland. Now there are many excellent musicians from Poland where there seems to be a blackened death factory producing such people, but two members of this band were of particular interest. First… Continue Reading →
Where to begin with Decapitated? From their explosion on to the death metal landscape around the millennium and resultant praise from all corners of the metal press, the Poles went on a seemingly unstoppable upward trajectory over the course of… Continue Reading →
Poland’s Bloodthirst were on my radar about 8 years ago, to be honest, I lost touch with them, so it’s refreshing that they are still doing what they do and releasing new material. ‘Chalice of Contempt’ is their first release… Continue Reading →
The answer to your first question is ‘Created By The Gods’…. Forgive me if I’m wrong, my Polish isn’t what it used to be. This is a re-issue from 2012 & the bands one and only full length LP. Now,… Continue Reading →
With Immoral Tales (Contes immoraux 1974) it was as though Borowczyk had released his inner perv. It’s an odd compendium which at times sees its four stories gelling but at others not quite so. This is certainly true of the… Continue Reading →
This, Genius Ultor’s second album, was recorded in a mouldy pre-war house, reeking of “complete humiliation and degradation”. The band then added their contribution of “necrophobic atmosphere and paranoid unease”. This seems to be natural territory for Polish blackened death… Continue Reading →