Tag Switzerland
Despite being about since 1997 Wintherr has kept his solo project Paysage D’Hiver purely an outlet for demo material until comparatively recently when he released debut studio album Im Wald in 2020. No doubt this has brought the Darkspace musician… Continue Reading →
Although they only formed in 2018, Swiss atmospheric black metal group AARA are already onto their third album, ‘Triade I : Eos’. This is the first part of a forthcoming trilogy inspired by the Gothic 19th century novel ‘Melmoth the… Continue Reading →
You only have to tune into my show on TotalRock (Dark Tryal, 21:00 every Sunday) to realise how much I love The Artisan Era. In fact, it’s somewhat of a joke, but one that I think is very valid, almost… Continue Reading →
So, I am sitting here minding my own business when an email lands in my inbox from casket technician Tox in Switzerland saying they had liked my review of last release Massoula and would I do similar with their new… Continue Reading →
Another impressive debut full-length album here by 2 shadowy entities lurking in pretty Basel Switzerland. No doubt Cheib (all instruments) and Schiach (vocals, lyrics) have discovered the ugly parts of their domain and committed their malcontent to musical form. Following… Continue Reading →
If you’ve read any of my reviews you’ll be pretty accustomed to the fact that I’m not all that sold on instrumental music. However, this tends to mostly be interludes, intros and the like. In some weird paradox purely instrumental… Continue Reading →
Well, this is a nice surprise. Switzerland gave us some pretty extreme metal in the 80’s, Messiah were very much a part of that with their death/thrash combo. In itself at the time, there wasn’t so much of this style… Continue Reading →
Paysage D’Hiver – literally ‘Winter Landscape’ – might just be the epitome of the black metal trope that from extreme chaos emerges form and beauty. Or, perhaps to look at it another way, as the band’s sole member Wintherr said… Continue Reading →
A one-man brutal juggernaut is one of the latest additions to the blackened death metal underworld, and the Swiss mastermind, Beliath, has exploded onto the landscape with his technically astute first born, ‘The impalement’. Weighing in at just 7 tracks,… Continue Reading →
30 years in the making and the hugely anticipated ‘Requiem’ is unleashed. ‘Requiem’ was started by the legendary Celtic Frost and finalised into the package that sits before us today by the new generation of Tom G Warrior and his… Continue Reading →
An album cover is always a good starting point to get acquainted with a band, I find. At least it should be. As mentioned before, I like it when album cover art and music fit well together. In fact, this… Continue Reading →
You may recognise this band’s moniker from a song of the same name by Electric Wizard and whilst this Swiss act has a doom like aura they underpin their all their songs with a death metal foundation to produce a… Continue Reading →