Tag Sweden
Titter ye not. We have all suffered the pestilence of Abysmal Winds at one time or another, that and the foul stench that accompanies them. At first glance one may assume that these three Swedes are still freshly soiling their… Continue Reading →
Swedish something or others Sulfuric have been around for a little while. I’d have never guessed Sweden but here we are. Rather sounding Brazilian or even Japanese, their ambitious yet ultimately accessible blend of thrash, black, and heavy metal, and… Continue Reading →
Swedish melodic black metal group, Wormwood have returned with their fourth album, The Star. Having never heard of this band before, I guess the eponymous star shone brightly in terms of first impressions, making me want to hear more from… Continue Reading →
Time to wreck your neck and bang your head, Nightrage are back again, not that they have ever been away for long. For the uninitiated the group were formed by Greek musician Marios Iliopoulos way back in 2000 and this… Continue Reading →
Mysticism and nature make for good bedfellows and so too do the bands on this split album, embracing the raptures of the elements through atmospheric black metal. The drab colours of the artwork may have you envisaging the cold, dark… Continue Reading →
Missiles from Malmö, Sweden, want to Weaponize Tomorrow, and rightly so, because without weapons Tomorrow might not survive. The future, if we are to have one, certainly needs help defending itself. However, there is one small problem. How can it… Continue Reading →
Out of the bunch of bands with this moniker the Swedish version is probably the most recognised having been around since the early 90s where they released a handful of demos but didn’t release a full length until ‘Burial Dimensions’… Continue Reading →
This band has always appealed to my senses, and so it was with great excitement that I received this one. Exciting is a good word to describe Loch Vostok’s music but then it is many things: heavy, progressive, epic, catchy,… Continue Reading →
I admit that despite knowing the name I hadn’t really ever engaged with Dödsrit before this but with a PR sheet tossing ‘black metal hiking punks’ at me it kinda sets up expectations so when opener ‘Irjala’ comes at me… Continue Reading →
Anyone into extreme metal over the last 30 years or so will be familiar with Sweden’s Necrophobic, their long history is testament to their ever enduring ability to release one captivating album after another. Indeed the band broke the black… Continue Reading →
If you are reading this, then you will have your own story surrounding a gateway or “Eureka” moment. The time that something hit your ears and a switch in your brain was tripped like a the infected in 28 Days… Continue Reading →
Amaranthe are a band that set the trend rather than follow in their Modern Metal genre and are surely the best known band to employ a female vocalist alongside two male vocalists, one harsh, one clean sung. They are a… Continue Reading →