I’m sad that I didn’t hear this album last year when it came out as it would have surely ended up in my top ten list for the year! However I’ve heard it now and I can tell you that “Emanations of the Black Night”, the debut album from Polish black metal duo Deus Mortem is seriously impressive! Opening track “Into the Forms of Flesh” builds up the a...

08/05/2014

Back in 2006 Andorran band Persefone released their sophomore album entitled simply “Core”. There was however nothing simple about the album itself. Now this much revered and highly sought after opus is being re-released with a couple of bonus tracks, one of which is an extremely impressive Star Wars instrumental medley that you absolutely have to...

06/05/2014

It’s hard to believe that German symphonic black/death sextet Aeons Confer have been on the scene since way back in 1997 but this is indeed the facts as we know them! Furthermore, this year’s release of the band’s debut studio album, "Symphonies Of Saturnus", is their first offering in nine whole years but like a fine wine, Aeons Confer have return...

30/04/2014

Words cannot describe how glad I am that this album lasts for only twenty minutes although if the truth be known, it's twenty minutes too long! Nothing about French band Hardcore Anal Hydrogen floats my boat, from their meant to be clever moniker that fails, to their haphazard, supposedly death metal orientated blend of rap/electronic/avant garde r...

30/04/2014

Hark! It's the return of Italian death thrashers Warknife following a five year absence since their 2009 debut album "Dream of Desolation". This year sees the Lecce quartet unleash their long awaited sophomore album through Memorial Records and let me tell you, "Amorphous", meaning to lack shape or form, as an album has one or two impressive tricks...

26/04/2014

From Philadelphia in the US comes the debut full length release from the four piece Death Metal horde, Fisthammer! "Devour All You See" is a punishing affair that from the first moment to the last note throws itself head first into your personal space and from then on in messes with your chi until you can finally pluck up the courage to remove it f...

20/08/2012

For twelve years now Polish Death/Grind outfit ANTIGAMA have been unleashing their own style of brutality on the world like a plague, and after two demo releases, a massive eleven split releases as well as five full length albums, Antigama have decided what their exhaustive and expansive discography required was a fresh new EP release. So here it i...

02/07/2012

From the Brittany region of our France comes a four piece Death/Doom outfit by the name of Wedding in Hades and their sophomore full length release mischievously entitled "Misbehavior". Starting with a hint of classical, Wedding In Hades then proceeds with a slow paced My Dying Bride style of somber melodic Doom Metal. With a nice contrast in vocal...

20/06/2012

From down under and the sunny climates of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland comes the Death Metal trio of "IncestBastard", "Ov Doom" and "Plague", more commonly known by their collective name as Ocean Of Zero, and their freshly released compilation EP comprising of their first two demo releases, namely "The Wake" from 2010 and its counterpart, 2011's...

18/06/2012

With a gap of three years, German Doom Metal troupe AHAB have now returned with their third full length release ‘The Giant’. For those of you familiar with Ahab you’ll know that they combine a love of sea-faring tails with a deep look at the depths of the human psyche, and this particular release covers Edgar Allen Poe’s novel of Arthur Gordon Pym’...

13/06/2012

You all know Candlemass. Anyone with even a vague knowledge of Metal’s less mainstream genres such as Doom Metal knows of them and of their achievements. After twenty-eight years it is fair to say that Candlemass have done it all and are now at a stage where they are fully comfortable with what they do and now play for themselves. If they want to m...

13/06/2012

It would appear that there is much to be angry about when you hail from Athens, Georgia in the United States, although by the sound and feel of this new eight track release from the aptly named Gripe, the vitriolic viewpoints and out right hatred that this band spew out is centred at more world-wide irritants. Indeed the new release entitled 'The F...

10/06/2012