Tag Voivod
Death Metal – don’t you just love it? For a genre that seemed to be dead and buried back in the late 90s – drowning in an obsession with sweep-picking, grunting and triggered, plasticky gravity blasts – at the start… Continue Reading →
Prolific label of renowned quality. Prolific band of renowned quality. Seems a match made in heaven (or hell if you prefer). Dark Descent have become one of THE go-to outlets for quality black and death metal, helped in no small… Continue Reading →
Hailing from the Catalan heartlands of Spain, Blackened Thrash merchants Körgull The Exterminator are all about that initial thrash sound. Taking their name from a Voivod track and citing influences such as Venom, Voivod, Slayer, Kreator, Posessed, Destruction and Sodom… Continue Reading →
Back when this tour was announced I will admit I got a tad excited about it. Obituary and Napalm Death, two of my favourite live acts on the same bill, some good no nonsense thrash in the form of Voivod… Continue Reading →
Descent has been out a while. Since September 2014 so I can only guess that this is a re-release. Bloody good thing to as it gives this Polish quintet a second crack of the whip, which they thoroughly deserve. Descent… Continue Reading →
This was going to be a slow gig to start as most people are only really interested in the headliner and the supports are not exactly well known or a particular draw to the average Voivod thrasher. This meant that… Continue Reading →
Supuration’s last album ‘CU3E’ was a minor revelation for these ears; part Carcass, part Voivod circa ‘Nothingface’, it literally formed me a new earhole. Well perhaps that’s a slight exaggeration on my part but rarely have I been as taken… Continue Reading →
It was a time of great jubilation when Amebix arose once more from the ashes in 2008. Those of us in the know remembering their might from the cold war, crust punk days saluted them and many others were quick… Continue Reading →
My first question on discovering that both these one man black metal bands hail from Norwich was what would Alan think if he encountered them to play on the local radio show? I tried to find a suitable quote from… Continue Reading →
As was so often repeated on the classic comedy series `Monty Python’s Flying Circus’, and now for something completely different… Diskord are certainly a unique prospect; for a start, a Norwegian extreme metal band that doesn’t play Black Metal (they… Continue Reading →
Here at Ave Noctum we have the pleasure to swim in very creative waters. Quite a few of the artist’s we feature see and manage the visuals and music as a whole but not many quite like The Osiris… Continue Reading →
Sinister, discordant guitars slither. Gregorian chants intone solemnly in the background. Drums tattoo a martial beat as the introduction builds. Yep, so far, so Deathspell Omega. Given that this US-based three-piece finish their latest record with a cover of ‘Malign… Continue Reading →