Tag Sweden
I’ve been listening to a good lot of dungeon synth music recently, so as synchronicity is high on my life path at the moment (ludicrously so) it wasn’t much of a surprise when this dropped into the review lists. So,… Continue Reading →
A new Runemagick album is always a source of great pleasure for me. One of the most prolific, yet still obscure bands since the turn of the century, the masters of dread atmosphere have been plying their wares since the… Continue Reading →
Those of us old enough will remember that during the late 80s many thrash acts decided to change their style into more technical or progressive realms and for quite a lot of them it was a death knell, a nail… Continue Reading →
I think this band are great; having recently completed a short tour is America, Century are coming at you with their debut album. The band play awesome heavy metal, there’s a lot of influence of the NWoBHM, current US scene… Continue Reading →
Returning to the metal stage from their lonesome and windswept homeland of Varmland, Sweden, Tribulation are back with another piece of gothic metal that is vampiric in nature and has wholly abandoned all the death and blackened metal elements of… Continue Reading →
MDXX are a mysterious quartet spearheaded by the mastermind behind them who is known simply as V, the other members being A, C and T. Influenced by recent years filled with death and despair, V created a world which mirrored… Continue Reading →
This is a project I have been following via an online music platform, thankfully those “you might also like” tags work well; David Nilsson, who is the vocalist of Swedish death metal band Feral, forms it. He handled all music,… Continue Reading →
Formed 33 years ago, this shall be the Swedish quartet’s 8th album, 4 years since their last release. Their brand of melodic doom with a touch of death has plenty of clean vocals by guitarists Daniel Brynste and Crister Olsson,… Continue Reading →
Sweden’s Bastard Grave know exactly how to cave your skull in, you’ve only to listen to the bands previous two full lengths to realise this as their third grotesque monstrosity continues that path with more unadulterated filth. Bands like this… Continue Reading →
On the surface the port city of Halmstad Sweden looks like a nice place to visit and if you were to type it into an image search there are nice scenes of waterways, bustling streets with stalls and bars, gothic… Continue Reading →
These Swedes have been top drawer all the way through their career, after a 4-year break in releases; ‘Fatal Encounter’ is ready for the world. It’s a striking album, and the infused logo returns after an albums break. The cover… Continue Reading →
No Cillit Bang is gonna purify this utter filth! Meditations of Filth is the debut album by Stockholm Death Grinders CHILD. I am slightly worried by the PR blurb which purports these 17 tracks as the Black album of Grindcore. Hmmm – what… Continue Reading →