Tag Sweden
Sweden really does seem to be the current spiritual home of all things Retro-Rock at the moment and the latest band to emerge from that thriving scene are Free Fall. Not sure this is traditional Ave Noctum fayre as this… Continue Reading →
‘The Devil’s Night’ EP was very much the first impression that anyone ever needed of this Swedish groups musical influences. The 2011 performance at London’s Live Evil festival was a mix of technical difficulties and sheer delight. This debut album… Continue Reading →
As death metal goes, this is about as brutal and uncompromising as it gets. “Iconoclasm” is the second album from this Swedish band and comes, to quote the lead singer, “with a nosebleed guarantee”. Yet in spite of the all-conquering… Continue Reading →
For some reason this Swedish band’s debut album did not connect with me at the time of the review cycle, since its release I’ve learnt to live with it, but ‘Phoenix’, their second full length album is an absolute metal… Continue Reading →
I have to admit to initially not being too sure how to deal with this debut by Head Of The Demon. Lovecraft themed (there’s a lot of it about this year already). Swedish band with unknown members from name bands… Continue Reading →
Having changed their name from the cumbersome ‘New Keepers’ to the far more palatable and memorable ‘New Keepers Of The Water Towers’ back in 2009, NKOTWT have been slowly but surely carving themselves a reputation in stoner/doom circles. The Swedes… Continue Reading →
Over the years, Cult of Luna have carved out a formidable reputation for the creation of dark atmospheric metal music. In 2003, I saw them play in Brighton alongside, bizarrely, Dillinger Escape Plan. Barely visible through the fog of dry… Continue Reading →
Names. Hmm. The problem with some names is that they have been used for one thing or another for so long that you get confused as to when you have been hearing about them recently. Anyway, to clear it up,… Continue Reading →
Although Skineater is undoubtedly going to be a new name to most, the band consists of characters who have been around the Swedish death metal scene for a long time. From founder Håkan Stuvemark (ex-Wombbath, In Thy Dreams) to new… Continue Reading →
It’s a brand new year as I sit down to write this review, a new start, a new dawn, the sun is beaming through the window. Life, is it not something to love, to embrace, to cherish? Fuck that load… Continue Reading →
Oh dear. Not this again! Music that genuinely tickles… no, ravages… my fancy, but is ‘oh so very cumbersome’ to put into words without plummeting into a cesspit of extreme-metal-reviewers’ clichés and ostensibly lazy references. Let us begin by rehashing… Continue Reading →
A mysterious and unassuming CD arrives in the depths of Ave Noctum, very neatly packaged in a lovely sleeve and all the way from Sweden. So what can it be? Um, well, they are seemingly named after a Ufomamaut album… Continue Reading →