Tag Season Of Mist
I’m a fan of good cover designs, of covers that truly represent the music they are introducing, and the cover for the debut album Word of Sin by The Abbey definitely falls under that category. Held in black, tones of… Continue Reading →
Portuguese duo Pedro Soares and Guilherme Henriques (past and present members of Gaerea) have returned with OAK, their Atmospheric Funeral/Death Doom Metal project whose sophomoric full length release has been picked up for release on CD and LP by Season… Continue Reading →
Loners are nothing unusual in Black Metal and its various sub-genres, on the contrary. As a multi-instrumentalist, as someone who does everything on his own, Roman V., mastermind of Bizarrekult, doesn’t stand out. But there are one-man bands and one-man… Continue Reading →
Don’t you just hate it when you start to get into a band who have a fairly long career path and they promptly split up. That is exactly what happened to me with Finns …And Oceans when I got caught… Continue Reading →
It took me a while to write this review due to ever increasing work commitments, but that meant that I had time to fully appreciate and inwardly digest this majestic beauty as I revisited it, being smothered more each time… Continue Reading →
Controversial, aggressive, borderline self-destructive and never giving an inch Mr KK Warslut and his gang of miscreants are back to declare defiance against. well everyone and everything I guess. And with their last two albums being for me career highlights… Continue Reading →
With their inception coming during the Pandemic years, Melbourne, Australia based Blackened Death Metal band Black Lava have unleashed their new album ‘Soul Furnace’, complete with stunning artwork. In my opinion, the phrase ‘Soul Furnace’ instantly creates an image in… Continue Reading →
What kind of music is hiding beneath this cover? While I am a fan of photography, and while the picture is colourful and quite pleasing to look at, I have to say that the image of a metal carafe, filled… Continue Reading →
Drudkh’s eleventh album is released against the backdrop of their homeland fighting for independence from the renewed imperialistic urges of Mother Russia, a situation which the Western world clearly empathises with. Regardless, as with my Necrom earlier in the year… Continue Reading →
The last couple of Black Anvil albums had a mixed reception here, that’s not all that surprising and I think the comment that ‘There are too many disparate and conflicting elements” in regard to last one ‘As Was’ kind of… Continue Reading →
First off, let’s quickly get the Oliphant out the long barn. After Linus Klausenitzer (bass), Rafael Trujillo (guitars), and Sebastian Lanser (drums) moved on from Obscura in 2020, they formed Obsidious and recruited Javi Perera to take care of vocals…. Continue Reading →
In recent years there has been a proliferation of interest in Nordic Mythology and associated neofolk with names such as Wardruna, Heilung and Danheim now being well established in alternative music circles. Vévaki will undoubtedly be joining that list in… Continue Reading →