Cult Of Luna has always been a band which has challenged and stretched thoughts, senses, and rock music itself but with their new album Vertikal, the Swedish post metallers have explored and aurally sculpted their finest hour to… Read More ›
Month: January 2013
Vorum: Poisoned Void
Released via Dark Descent Records and Woodcut Records, Poisoned Void is the long awaited debut full length album from Finnish death metallers Vorum. In 2009 the quartet unleashed what has been called as one of the best underground death… Read More ›
An artful splendour: Interview with Dani of Crimson Blue
Russian nu art metallers Crimson Blue is a band with a distinct and individual sound and one who released one of the more impressive and enthralling albums of last year in the splendid Innocence. Fusing nu-metal grooves with irresistible essences… Read More ›
Cambion: Virus
If like us you thought Cambion was the business with their Last Rites EP of 2011, then be prepared to be a whimpering fully bloated with pleasure wreck as their new EP Virus wreaks its havoc… Read More ›
Lost in Wonderland: Against the Sun
Guildford band Lost in Wonderland first came to our notice here in 2011 with their impressive performance at local venue The Boileroom. Out of the three or four bands playing they were the ones who grabbed… Read More ›
Nightfall: Cassiopeia
There can be very few who do not know of the Greek dark metal weavers Nightfall or be aware of their continuing legacy to metal in general let alone their chosen genre of creativity. From deeply impressive and… Read More ›
Delicious horrors: an interview with The Monster Ones
From within the heart of the Palma de Mallorca region of Spain there has stirred in the past couple of years, a fresh and exciting storm of graveyard rock n roll. It comes in the thrilling shape of The Monster… Read More ›
Lightning Swords of Death: Baphometic Chaosium
Primal and bleak, Baphometic Chaosium the new album from occult black metal band Lightning Swords Of Death, is an unforgiving and unrelenting torrent of evocative and menacing irreverence. It is uncompromising and challenging to the core,… Read More ›
Man The Machetes: Idiokrati
A stormy affair which leaves the senses rubbed raw but glowing with pleasure, Idiokrati the debut album from Norwegian hardcore rockers Man The Machetes, is an undeniably formidable and captivating onslaught. Fusing varied essences from rock and metal… Read More ›
Promethee: Nothing Happens. Nobody Comes, Nobody Goes
Last year the single Sickness Unto Death from Swiss metallers Promethee whipped up a strong wind of excitement and expectation for their debut album, its intrusive and enveloping storm of imagination and destructive craft a formidable step on… Read More ›
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