A Fire Burning Bright… I’m gonna start off with a real burner (pun intended!) here: this is my favourite black metal release of the year 2019! Some of ...
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Israeli Groove/Death Metal band Deface formed in 2002 but the debut album they release only this year. Of course, many will ask a reasonable question: “Why it took ...
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Comments Off on Review: Deface “Blatant Denial” [Metal Scrap Records]
Since their initial inception back in 2015, Old Night is something of a sonic oddity, especially in Croatia, or even the Balkan area which is soaring with mostly ...
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Comments Off on Review: Old Night “A Fracture in the Human Soul” [Rain Without End Records]
As any Black Metal fan will tell you ‘Santa’ is an anagram of ‘Satan’ – and if anyone is seeking some yuletide engagement with the cloven-hoofed later in ...
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Comments Off on Review: 1349 ”The Infernal Pathway” [Season of Mist Records]
The New Chapter is what would happen if those obscure death metal bands from the late 80s-early 90s had better production, but still kept their dark edge. And ...
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Comments Off on Review: Reject the Sickness “The New Chapter”
You know how it is: sometimes you have an album and for some reason you put it aside. But then you turn it on and from the first ...
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Comments Off on Review: Avalanche “Sent From Hell” [Sliptrick Records]
To me, raw black metal seems like the real deal. Raw sound, raw emotion, raw… rawness. Of course, there are bands that laze around all day just screeching ...
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Comments Off on Review: Faustus “Lipsia” [Careless Records]
Doom Metal is quite diverse genre with apparent narrowness of its frame. Here can be found a place for the deepest darkness, heaviness and many other things. In ...
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Comments Off on Review: Avatarium “The Fire I Long For” [Nuclear Blast Records]
It’s no mystery that Morgan Hakansson, the general of the Swedish panzer battalion Marduk is a huge Samhain/Danzig fan. For those who are not buying it, might want ...
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Comments Off on Review: DEATH WOLF “IV: Come The Dark” [Blooddawn Productions]
Review: SLAYER “The Repentless Killogy – Live At The Forum In Inglewood, CA” [Nuclear Blast Records]
With their recent last ever live performance, the world said goodbye to Slayer and with that, their storied almost forty years career. As one of the most influential ...
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Comments Off on Review: SLAYER “The Repentless Killogy – Live At The Forum In Inglewood, CA” [Nuclear Blast Records]
About feeling Heilung is not just music. It’s an ancient immerse world that is hiding inside all of us but we don’t even think about it. And when ...
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Comments Off on Gig report: Heilung @ December 6th, Lviv, Ukraine
Stay dead already! You know, there comes a time when the mourning passes, a moment when even the deepest wounds slowly start the healing process and we can ...
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Comments Off on Review: Running Wild ”Crossing the Blades” [Steamhammer Records]
Polish punishment crew Gurthang have managed to shoehorn six albums in to the past decade, Ascension being the latest. Originally a solo project, things have since evolved to ...
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Comments Off on Review: Gurthang ”Ascension” [Immortal Frost Productions]
The UK’s Damnation Fest is held every year at Leeds University. This year offered a standout selection of black metal acts. Paul Castles saw them in action with ...
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Marcia Funebre’s music consists of melodic yet gloomy black metal riffs, and deep growling death metal vocals. The vocals really are one of the band’s best assets. The ...
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Comments Off on Review: Marcia Funebre “Marcia Funebre” [Heathen Tribes]
Israeli metal scene, despite it is small and neglected, still alive and quite various: there are many Black Metal bands with some original views on this music, lots ...
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Comments Off on Review: Strident “March Of Plague” [Punishment 18 Records]
At the beginning of each new year, I have a tradition of raiding several sources online in search of new music. I have a pretty basic way of ...
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Comments Off on Review: Switchtense “Flesh & Bones” [Rastilho Records]
Fitting in with the traditional heavy metal revival bands, Ice War make a very stripped-down brand that only really scrapes from the bottom of the classic influences. Their ...
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Comments Off on Review: Ice War “Manifest Destiny” [Dying Victims Productions]
To see a genre so woefully unpopular truly invokes a sense of appreciation. This isn’t to suggest that an unpopular genre is objectively or even subjectively lacking positive ...
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Comments Off on Review: Herrschaft “Le Festin Du Lion” [Noires Productions]
Seems that Uncle Tom Angelripper isn’t going to stop the war machine named Sodom. After another line-up change the band works on their new album. Drumming up an ...
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Comments Off on Review: Sodom “Out Of The Frontline Trench” [Steamhammer/SPV]
