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I consider myself hugely privileged to have been given the last couple of Winterfylleth albums and splits to review: I’ve seen them grow up in public from a pretty raw but uniquely talented grouping, with a little pinch of early… Continue Reading →
Not sure how this one finally reached Ave Noctum but it was actually released in 2013 and is the musical project of Tim Shaw previously from Alestorm and whilst the album is very much the one man band he is… Continue Reading →
Being only half on duty this is more a snapshot than detailed band by band review but hopefully it will give you a flavour of the fun we all had. The festival itself deserves a review too though as it… Continue Reading →
That’s Lucifer on the front cover, chomping on betrayers Judas, Brutus and Cassius. The cover is based on a painting from the Divine Comedy, and this is combined with drawings by Hieronymus Bosch, with the artwork inside representing the seven… Continue Reading →
I like the band name, it just rolls off the tongue and kind of types from the keyboard in the same fashion. As for further information there is not a fantastic amount more I can tell you as the letter… Continue Reading →
With a massive 200 words to write for this review and camera at home I found myself somewhat at a loose end thinking that there was going to be so much more to say about tonight’s show upstairs at the… Continue Reading →
As a label, Candlelight seem to have a knack of signing bands off the back of a demo before they do anything else. Ear to the ground I guess. Not being privy to their success rate I can’t comment on… Continue Reading →
Scroll down to bottom of review for photos! The annual Damnation Festival held in Leeds is, I think it is fair to say, the biggest indoor metal event in the North of England. Every year it sees a huge crowd… Continue Reading →
This two-track, Greek BM split opens with an epic, fifteen-minute piece by Spectral Lore, whose excellent, earthy-and-euphoric full-length ‘Sentinel’ it was recently my pleasure to review. New track ‘Duty’ is similarly powerful and dramatic, albeit with a lighter tone and… Continue Reading →
We had a rather good tribute to Emperor album earlier this year via Candlelight Records so one for Enslaved was also very welcome. The timing is good too as I am currently waiting for new album Riitiir to come through… Continue Reading →
It’s been interesting charting the course of the Ukrainian BM sound this past decade or so; the rise and fall of Hate Forest; Drudkh’s journey from raw and obscure beginnings to mainstream popularity on a major label, and the seemingly… Continue Reading →
Ayloss, the man behind Spectral Lore, resides in Athens, but his latest effort sounds far removed from the traditional traits of Greek black metal, drawing instead upon a dense and dynamic Eastern-European aesthetic merged with a heavy dose of Nordic… Continue Reading →