Tag Season Of Mist
Has it really been five years since Vltimas released ‘Something Wicked Marches in’? The debut really struck a chord with me and is one that I return to pretty regularly. It’s fair to say I wasn’t in isolation and the… Continue Reading →
When gravity fails you may well fall into an infinite abyss, can you do so gracefully though? The name Merrimack, I just discovered, comes from Graham Masterton’s novel Walkers and is that black void confronted in a tale of ancient… Continue Reading →
Formed in 2020, these Turin based metallers drop their debut long player after a string of EP’s. “Fire Blades From The Tomb” finds the band delivering their own take on a doom meets black metal mix. Utilising two bass guitarists… Continue Reading →
Blimey, has it really been a whole decade since we last had recorded material from enigmatic Swiss explorers of the cosmos Darkspace? It’s not like the trio comprising of Wroth, Zhaaral and new member Yhs have found themselves stranded on… Continue Reading →
Is a necro(w)retch the sound made by someone who has consumed too much corpse-flesh? Possibly, as considering three different writers have tackled their albums in the past, none of them have surprisingly come back for seconds. These ghoulish Gaul’s have… Continue Reading →
An instrumental project, Vipassi proved their worth on their colourful and adventurous debut album “Sunyata” (2017). The band has been around since 2007. “Lightless” promises something more technical and experimental. Although there is gloom, the sounds are diverse and colourful… Continue Reading →
From the world of technical progressive metal come Exocrine with their sixth album. I know two of them, and recall that they manage the complexity very well. So I hoped for more of the same here. After easing us in,… Continue Reading →
I’ve just been listening to an Iblis Manifestations podcast (Shayan from Trivax’s podcast, shout out for him) where Shayan and Cult Never Dies boss Dayal Patterson and the particular segment concerning what is black metal and what the attitude of… Continue Reading →
Sweden meets York on this debut album from Helga. “Wrapped in Mist” passes through the lands of Swedish folk and progressive metal, with post-rock, black metal, pop and some cellos and violins thrown in. A haunting female voice precedes a… Continue Reading →
Collaborations between members of different bands are not unusual, but this is a particularly interesting one. The idea of the band came about in 2017 when two of the band members were together in Mike Portnoy’s Shattered Fortress, so clearly… Continue Reading →
This album is the follow-up to the Dutch band’s 2020 release “Form in Motion”. Justifying the description of Autarkh’s music as “contemporary extreme metal”, “Form in Motion” took us to all sorts of strange places, treating us to epic, industrial… Continue Reading →
There have been many bands within extreme metal with monikers that spark a level of curiosity that wouldn’t necessarily be created with band names such as Dying Fetus. Usually bands opt for Latin derivations or connotations to create band names… Continue Reading →