Tag Sweden
Long standing Swedish thrashers Raise Hell are back with a new line up and a new album. Hailing from Stockholm, the four piece return after a nine year absence with the follow up to “City Of The Damned” to bring… Continue Reading →
This rag-tag-bag of Swedes pretty much came out of nowhere delivering their storming first album ‘Alfapokalypse’ onto the scene and giving it a real kick up the arse in the process back in early 2014. It’s an album that still… Continue Reading →
You’d think that two years after their masterful double album ‘The Living Infinite’ and having already released the killer ‘Live In The Heart Of Helsinki’ album / dvd already this year these hardworking Swedes might fancy a bit of time… Continue Reading →
Agusa are a psychedelic progressive rock band from Sweden. Reading their story, they formed in 2013 as a kind of organic project where they sat in a forest, played 70s prog and took it from there. This two track album… Continue Reading →
Black Trip were somewhat an underground find prior to their last full length studio release (‘Goin’ Under’), ‘Shadowline’ quoting the press release takes the band forward with a more personal but firmly rooted dark heavy metal rock. The immediate comparison… Continue Reading →
Continuing on from their debut ‘Goodbye Repentance’, Sweden’s Dead Lord further develop their own interpretation of their Thin Lizzy obsessed sound. When the band state that these are “10 songs of solid no-bogus, face melting, twin guitar, smart rock action”… Continue Reading →
It was their name that got me interested in Tad Morose back in the Nineties. We were all still using the word ‘tad’ a lot at that time, like “I’m a tad tired today” or “it’s a tad windy out… Continue Reading →
Twenty-two years after their brilliant debut ‘Internal Caustic Torments’ arrived, at long last Sweden’s Wombbath are back with another slab of unadulterated death metal. Perhaps what distinguished these guys from many of their native contemporaries was the clear homage to… Continue Reading →
As with so many of the cool opportunities contributing to Ave Noctum has afforded me, interviewing a former Vomitory member is something my younger self could never have envisaged. Asking man mountain Ulf Dalegren to sign my CD back in… Continue Reading →
This year may mark twenty years since Ulver’s seminal ‘Bergtatt’ debut full-length saw the light of day but its influence within the more pastoral, folk-tinged reaches of the black metal scene continues to be felt as strongly as ever. Enter… Continue Reading →
Album number two from Swedish occult dark rockers, Year Of The Goat, comes with heaps of their usual melodrama plus a subtle blend of multiple genres. Each one is shot through with their own stylized affectations woven into more recognisable… Continue Reading →
When it comes to Sweden’s industrial/black metal pioneers Diabolicum, and especially their rampaging latest disc ‘Ia Pazuzu’, utterly negative adjectives are all that can describe them. Given the opportunity to pick the brains of founding member Sasrof, it came as… Continue Reading →