Tag Taake
How can a band be both so old as to be intensely familiar, but also on their debut album? That is the question that immediately leaps out at me from Steinras’ first, self-titled offering. Because while this might be Steinras’… Continue Reading →
Easter Sunday had that all too familiar bittersweet “last day’ feeling, with a whole day of music to look forward to, but also the knowledge that “tomorrow” meant back to work and reality. Trying to shut that out of my… Continue Reading →
A new name but an old friend as far as the record label is concerned as Udåd is a project helmed by none other than Mork’s Thomas Eriksen. The Norwegian multi-instrumentalist has with his day job captured the very essence… Continue Reading →
Back with his 8th studio album and first since 2017’s Kong Vinter, Hoest presents four epic tracks of frostbitten Norsk Svart Metal here and there’s plenty to sink your teeth into. With title translating to ‘An Ocean Of Distance’ one… Continue Reading →
To this point, if you’d asked me to say what I knew about Green Bay, Wisconsin, I’d have said cheese, American football and cold weather. I now know that Vredensdal come from this city. The title of this, their fourth… Continue Reading →
It’s been six years since we last heard from The Wolves Of Avalon with their ‘Across Corpses Grey’ release of 2016. This comprised of one massive track spanning 30 minutes and a couple of cover versions. We get five numbers… Continue Reading →
Ever since I got my hands on a copy of 2020’s Fragment: Erhabenheit I have been hooked on this Austrian black metal horde so I jumped at the chance to review the latest spawn from these black arts purveyors, Theotoxin…. Continue Reading →
Aldriendir aka Andreas Baier is a Swedish musician who obviously likes to keep himself busy in a variety of cross-genre bands. We recently encountered him in stoner / desert rock group Besvärjelsen and he has worked past and present with… Continue Reading →
Ah that bittersweet feeling of the last day of a festival. Still a whole day of great music and festivities to be had, but also that knowledge that this is the last day and then it is back to “real… Continue Reading →
The flock is gathered once more, penned in waiting for the wolves to pounce and render flesh. The follow up to debut album ‘Deus qui non mentitur’, sees the French artists BÂ’A reflecting on good and evil and interpreting the… Continue Reading →
It was last March when Taake released the first of three projected special 10” vinyl split EP’s. This appeared via Terratur Possessions with Whoredom Rife on the B) side. Following that July saw the second edition via Edged Circle with… Continue Reading →
Dependant on the level of your black metal knowledge, Inflabitan may or may not be a name you are accustomed with. Inflabitan has been pulsating within the black landscape for many years now and has been gaining notoriety as a… Continue Reading →