19th April 2024
Heavy, meaty grooves. The first track “A.I.” is right out of the Black Sabbath heavy metal forge. Sparks of Orange Goblin and Nebula mixed in the metal alchemy. A slow, sludge, pumping mechanical drumbeats. A […]
19th April 2024
CAB (Christopher Augustino Botolon) is a solo artist Detriot, USA. CAB is basically an old school seasoned drummer/percussionist from Detroit, who’s been around including playing L.A. music scene 1982-1989, then returned home to Detroit in […]
18th April 2024
The British Doom Metal legends released their previous album The Ghost of Orion just days before the pandemic paralyzed the world in 2020. It was an important album for the band, because it came out after five […]
18th April 2024
Next band I choose to present today is Deathlike Dawn who hail from a Polish extreme metal scene that has achieved great international success and has become one of the most significant ambassadors of Polish […]
17th April 2024
Idiot Child are a five piece noise rock/sludge metal band from neighbouring Malmö, Sweden. The band currently consists of Melker Engelberger (drums), Isak Svensson (bass) Jonas Stojiljkovic (guitar), Oliver Dahl (guitar) Mikey Engelberger (vocals & […]
16th April 2024
Kouristus is a grindcore quartet from Tampere, Finland founded in 2012. The band has been active on the stage for many years and now their earned experience resulted in a completely new release from this […]
16th April 2024
Sunnata is in many ways a rather unique band. Musically, their doom cornerstone is inspired by the boggy grunge of 90’s Alice and Chains and the spellbinding depths of general Swans approach. And while on […]
15th April 2024
Necroeucharist Productions is a fairly new (since 2020) Black/Death metal label from Switzerland. One of their latest releases is from a Slovakian black/project metal band Klifot. I don’t even know if it is a one-man […]
12th April 2024
The Swedish (Kiruna-based) death metal band Those Who Bring The Torture has recently released their ninth album, Towards Decay via Iron, Blood and Death Corporation. For those of you still unfamiliar with this band, I […]
12th April 2024
Profane Burial is a self-proclaimed ‘cinematic’ Black Metal band, one that aspires to mix together the epic scores of a film soundtrack with that of a heavily melodious Black Metal sound – I seem to […]
11th April 2024
Founded in 2017, Meridion is a four-piece death metal combo hailing from Santiago, Chile. The band consists of Southern Curse (guitars, synths, horns & vocals), Bonefucker (bass), Shoort Dagon (drums) and Condanatore (keyboards). In 2018 […]
11th April 2024
Corpus Diavolis is a French Black/Death Metal quintet which a philosophical bent alongside both the occult and satanic approaches often seen in these genres. This quickly becomes clear both in regard to how they name […]
10th April 2024
Running Wild Productions (a non-profit label) & Mr. Rainer has done it again, released another very interesting CD-sampler. It’s entitled Austrian Metal News – The Power Of The Heavy Thrasher Vol. 2 and it, as […]
10th April 2024
Mòr is a French Black Metal duo, one that has been around and somewhat active at least since 2014 – As far as releases are concerned, their debut happened the next year where a Demo […]
9th April 2024
Åsse, despite being named after the Norwegian name for ‘mountain ridge’, is in actuality an Italian Black Metal Duet (hence the honourable nod to Norway I am assuming – After all, their genre of choice, […]
25th September 2024
What do you get if you merge the old-fashioned aggression of American Death Metal act Nunslaughter with the repentless, incessant drums of equally American Black Metal act Grand Belial’s Key? In this modern day and […]
25th September 2024
Grave Heresy is a Death/Black Metal quartet hailing from an at time of writing unknown part of Sweden – Likewise, I have so far been unable to determine exactly when the band was formed. What […]
24th September 2024
Warrior, not to be confused with any of the other (primarily Heavy Metal-based) eight bands with the same name is, in this case, referring to a Black Metal duo that teamed up back in 2019, […]
20th September 2024
Arguably the place where it all began, Á la Croisée des Vents (French for ‘At The Crossroads Of The Winds’) is the first EP released by the band back in 2008, only preceeded by a […]
19th September 2024
Continuing on with my ramblings from yesterday I am proceeding backwards through time and the discography of Aorlhac, to the also-to-be re-released album La Cité des Vents (rough translation meaning ‘The Windy City’), their first […]
18th September 2024
Aorlhac is a French modern Black Metal act that I have had the pleasure of following for the majority of their sixteen year lifespan – Coincidentally enough, my first introduction to the quartet was the […]
15th September 2024
Ulvehunger, which is Norwegian for ‘Wolves Hunger’ was originally envisioned as a continuation of the band Balvaz, a Death Metal act – Albeit with somewhat of a twist, namely a substantial amount of Black Metal added […]
14th September 2024
Azketem, despite being the self-titled release of German One-man Black Metal act, is in actuality the second Full-Length released under their current moniker and the fourth overall, counting his original two Demos, all of which […]
9th September 2024
I am a harsh critic…when it comes to Thrash metal. It’s the metal genre I grew up listening to, back in the day (late 80’s). First listen, meh. Not into it so much. Then…as every […]
3rd September 2024
Another interesting and different release from Darkness Shall Rise Productions. For the first time ever, they release a compilation on LP/CD/3-MC box and digital gathering the three demos from melodic death metal pioneers – Desultory. […]
