Locust Leaves are a Greek avant-garde/progressive black metal band and this is their debut album.
This is black metal that embraces classic, thrash and progressive metal in its search for a perfect form of artistic expression. Continue reading “Locust Leaves – A Subtler Kind of Light (Review)”
Lantern are a blackened death metal band from Finland and this is their second album.
Lantern positively reek of old-school death metal’s foul, atavistic stench, albeit one that’s been dipped in the grim waters of black metal’s malevolence. Death metal is the overriding style here, but there’s enough of a blackened influence to allow for it in the genre tag. Continue reading “Lantern – II: Morphosis (Review)”
This is the third album from Swedish black/death metallers Mordant.
Mordant play a hybrid black/death style that takes influence from the Swedish melodic scene. Continue reading “Mordant – Demonic Satanic (Review)”
Polish black metallers Mord’A’Stigmata have recently unveiled their latest album Hope. This is an album that’s a layered, multifaceted release, demonstrating an involved and intricate black metal that’s the best work the band have done to date, in my humble opinion. Continue reading “Interview with Mord’A’Stigmata”
This is the fourth album from Falls of Rauros, a black metal band from the US.
Falls of Rauros are a band that I know can always be relied upon to deliver. Across their various releases they have produced a wealth of atmospheric and engaging folk-influenced black metal that has never failed to impress and satisfy me. The same can be said of Vigilance Perennial in this regard too. Continue reading “Falls of Rauros – Vigilance Perennial (Review)”
This is the third album from US doom band Flesh of the Stars.
How time flies. It was only a couple of years ago that Flesh of the Stars impressed the Hell out of me with their very endearing debut album, Hide. Since then, I’ve somehow missed out on them releasing a second album, and they’re now on their third release, Anhilla. Turns out they’re quite the prolific band. Continue reading “Flesh of the Stars – Anhilla (Review)”
This is US doom/sludge band Unearthly Trance’s sixth album.
Full of heavy riffs and weighty attitude, Stalking the Ghost is an album of gritty doom metal with sludge proclivities.
Brutal hard-hitting riffs are strategically Continue reading “Unearthly Trance – Stalking the Ghost (Review)”
Benighted are a French death metal band and this is their eighth album.
Benighted impressed the Hell out of me when I managed to catch them live supporting The Black Dahlia Murder, (whose singer guests on this album), so it’s with a palpable sense of excitement that I press play on Necrobreed. After a typically throwaway intro, the Continue reading “Benighted – Necrobreed (Review)”
Deadwound are a sludge/hardcore band from the UK. This is their debut EP.
Channelling a lovely line in grim filthiness, Deadwound fuse dark hardcore with sludge metal to produce 22 minutes of riotous ugliness.
The singer Continue reading “Deadwound – Identity Shapes (Review)”
This is a re-release of the 2014 album from one-man black metal band Vaiya from Australia.
Featuring three songs, each 13 minutes in length, Remnant Light is atmospheric black metal with a bleak demeanour and a grim personality. Continue reading “Vaiya – Remnant Light (Review)”
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