Month: May 2019

Glassing – Spotted Horse (Review)

Glassing - Spotted HorseGlassing are a blackened hardcore band from the US and this is their second album.

I do so like these hybrid styles that are almost impossible to lump into a single genre, or to easily categorise. This particular release mixes hardcore, black metal, and post-metal into something quite personable, and it’s a very effective and enjoyable listen because of this. Continue reading “Glassing – Spotted Horse (Review)”

Heathe – On the Tombstones; the Symbols Engraved (Review)

Heathe - On the Tombstones; the Symbols EngravedThis is the debut album from Heathe, a blackened doom/drone project from Denmark.

Apparently created by a core of one person who was then aided and abetted by multiple others, this band have crafted here a single 38-minute track named On the Tombstones. It has apparently been recorded live, with a structure enhanced by improvisation in places, which is probably why the music feels so vibrant, albeit in a bleak, nihilistic ways. Continue reading “Heathe – On the Tombstones; the Symbols Engraved (Review)”

Starless Domain – EOS (Review)

Starless Domain - EOSStarless Domain are a US black metal band and this is their debut album.

Consisting of a single track lasting almost an hour, (at least my version is – I’ve seen others that are divided into four tracks), EOS is an ambitious journey into the night sky. Continue reading “Starless Domain – EOS (Review)”

Full of Hell – Weeping Choir (Review)

Full of Hell - Weeping ChoirThis is the fourth album from US grinders Full of Hell.

The noise-enhanced grinding extremity of Full of Hell returns, and with Weeping Choir we get a further 25 minutes of abrasive nastiness and inventive grindcore intensity. Continue reading “Full of Hell – Weeping Choir (Review)”

Nyss – Dépayser (Review)

Nyss - DépayserNyss are a French black metal band and this is their second album.

Nyss’s 2017 debut album Princesse Terre (Three Studies of Silence and Death) was an atmospheric and raw slice of blackened art that struck a chord with me, and I’ve returned to it many times since. Continue reading “Nyss – Dépayser (Review)”

Voëmmr – O Ovnh Intot Adr Mordrb (Review)

Voemmr - O ovnh intot adr mordrbVoëmmr are a black metal band from Portugal and this is their second album.

This is raw, underground black metal that’s rooted firmly in the 1990s, but that hasn’t gone down a copycat route. Dark and aggressive, but also expressive and emotive, this is music to get lost in a violent trance too. Continue reading “Voëmmr – O Ovnh Intot Adr Mordrb (Review)”

God’s Bastard – Last Standing Village (Review)

God's Bastard - Last Standing VillageGod’s Bastard are a black metal band from the US and this is their debut EP.

Whatever happened to Floods, I hear you ask? Well, the answer, partly at least, is that their former guitarist/vocalist ended up joining forces with the drummer of Krallice/Woe to produce this rather fine new project. Continue reading “God’s Bastard – Last Standing Village (Review)”

Mental Cruelty – Inferis (Review)

Mental Cruelty - InferisMental Cruelty are a German deathcore band and this is their second album.

Violently mixing elements of slam and, (more importantly), menacing atmosphere into their deathcore brew, Mental Cruelty offer up 34 minutes of sheer brutality, and belligerent aggression. Continue reading “Mental Cruelty – Inferis (Review)”