Whether by design or just how personal appetite took to its rancorous yet feisty mesh of sound, fair to say Des Endes Anfang, the debut album from German metallers Tranquillizer, took its time to fully persuade. Convince it did though,… Read More ›
Black Metal
Attan – From Nothing
In their own words, “there’s nothing but ice and darkness” to the far northern border of Norway where noise breeders Attan was bred, but equally going by the band’s debut EP there is also plenty of frustration, rage, and creative… Read More ›
Curezum – One Hundred Years/The Top
It was hard to know how seriously to take the new two track single from Curezum, they a black metal tribute band to The Cure, and almost too easy to dismiss it without a chance. But everything deserves a piece… Read More ›
Pathologic Noise – Gore Aberration
It has been twelve years since the release of their debut album, a period where Brazilian death metallers Pathologic Noise, certainly outside of their homeland’s underground scene, has been a big miss for some and, easy to suspect, a secret… Read More ›
Christ Agony – Black Blood
Founded back in 1990 by vocalist/guitarist Cezar, extreme metallers Christ Agony have a pedigree and armoury of well-received and acclaimed releases which alone makes the band’s upcoming ninth album, scheduled for release next year, a highly anticipated proposal. Add new… Read More ›
Primal – Deathzone
Having been won over by the third album Prophetae from Polish black metal project Primal, the sending over of the band’s first full-length Deathzone just meant we had to take a swift look. Unsurprisingly the album compared to the later… Read More ›
Perihelion – Zeng
Perihelion is a Hungarian quartet who conjures a raw and invasive post /avant-garde metal merged sound. Fair to say there is more to that core recipe too, a blackened essence and punkish spicing amongst the flavours uniting in the band’s… Read More ›
Dalla Nebbia – Felix Culpa
An album impossible to fully digest on the first listen, second, and indeed even a few more, Felix Culpa still quickly emerges as one richly fascinating and perpetually tempting proposition. The creation of US based Dalla Nebbia; it is a… Read More ›
Deep Desolation – Possession
Living up to its name in so many ways, Possession is an occultist waltz with the devil, black metal fuelled rock ‘n’ roll which just gets more compelling and adventurous track by track. The latest album from Polish metallers Deep… Read More ›
She Must Burn – Self Titled EP
It is a ferociously voracious cauldron of intent, a ravenous tempest of corrosive intensity and imagination, and one of the most riveting and exciting debuts to be uncaged this year. The release is the self-titled debut EP comes from UK… Read More ›
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