A couple of weeks ago I had a tremendous pleasure to review Venom’s To Hell And Back – 8-tape box. Now, the guys from Darkness Shall Rise Productions, provided me with Destruction’s strictly limited tape […]

Hyrgal is one of those bands that I have taken an almost instant liking to once I heard my first song with them – As a matter of fact, they are one of the core […]

The pandemic resulted is countless projects and collaborations, many of whom were uninspiring and vanished as soon as the world started opening up. Common for most of is that artists needed a creative outlet during […]

Johann Cadot (guitars & vocals), a bandleader from a French quintet Asylum Pyre recently sent me their latest opus for review purpose. Apart from Johann the band also consists of a female vocalist Oxy Duprat, […]

About a year ago I had the pleasure of reviewing the debut EP of up-and-coming French Black Metal trio and, skimming what I wrote back then, I can see that much of what I surmised […]

Ceremonies, we’ve all sojourned the experience. Decrees in harmony and valedictions to the lost. All of us have been bound together by an infinite unity, where all of our stationed emotions inevitably become fugitive to […]

Scandi DIY-ers Swartzheim are at it again. After a rather quiet 2021 debut, these Crossover-thrash Danes have spent two years “consolidating themselves as a live entity”, primarily playing gigs, clubs, parties and festivals in their […]

2023 has proven to be an exceptionally good year for me personally – Several good releases have been popping up thruoghout the year, several bands I never thought I would get the chance to see […]

A couple of years ago Spanish duo TodoMal released their debut which introduced their rather interesting take on atmospheric doom. Using obvious doom inspirations like Candlemass and My Dying Bride and wrapping them comfortably in […]

Here, at the end of the year, in quite literally the darkest month, where I have already sent in to my superiors my list of the best releases of the year – Here, right at […]