Gravecoven are an american black metal three piece. "Couching Blood" is the debut EP following some demos and singles.</p><p>Starting off with a mid-paced and filthy baritone guitars it is obvious these guys mean business. It’s black metal with a bit of a Profanatica and maybe a bit of Incantation. I mean this in tone rather than actual sound. The...

08/07/2018

Lykhaeon are a black metal three piece from Switzerland. This EP is their first release through Godz Ov War Productions and the follow to their debut full length released independently in 2015. “Ominous Eradication Of Anguished Souls” gives you two tracks, both 13 minutes in length each 'Chthonios 1 &amp; 2'. It’s best played as a full piece of...

05/07/2018

Hailing from Poland Truchło Strzygi release their debut full length album on the ever reliable Godz Ov War Productions "Pora Umierac" is a high energy punkish black metal rampage which his you like a shot of adrenalin into your temple. The album opens with the vocalist singing a song (I’m assuming in polish) with La-la’s included before breaking...

03/07/2018

San Antonio, Texas’ Flesh Hoarder have unleashed their debut offering entitled “Homicidal Necrophile”, and it is one hell of a piece of brutal death metal mastery! When I first heard of this album coming out, I was quite Intrigued. Mostly from the band’s logo and artwork, but I will say that these things trickled down into an extremely deep curiosi...

29/06/2018

It was easy to shrug and say "Here we go, another super group" when it was announced Alex Marquez and Gus Rios were collaborating on a project. Many of us were expecting a cool album but nothing earth shattering, well think again folks because Create A Kill are about to melt your face like the Nazi at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark! "Summone...

26/06/2018

Recently I reviewed another great Czech Republic thrash act called Kaar and I can now add another to that list, also on the same label as this young band give us their debut full length after a couple of EP’s and a split in the last few years. Expecting a rather calm intro for '42-06-10', due to its duration instead I got a roar and savage piece of...

20/06/2018

This well-established Spanish death metal band has a slew of releases out in the last decade or so that have not caught my attention which I will rectify after this fourth album landed on my listening pile recently. The quintet that make up this band has seen fit to furrow their death metal with a slight blackened edge as the album opens with 'Mult...

19/06/2018

This Dutch band may be new but all the personnel are in other bands as either permanent or live members of acts such as Verval, Weltschmerz, Grafjammer and Nevel to name just a few. My initial research into this band came up with that this is a death metal band but listening to this album it simply isn’t just a death metal album it has tenets of ot...

17/06/2018

As far as I know this French band is a three piece and hits us with a debut EP that has a primitiveness that is matched by the album art work that has a medieval flavour to it. My reference to primitive should not be equated to being poor it should be matched to being grisly, dark and nasty with a crudeness that sees the opening track 'Deafening Co...

16/06/2018

Settin off on the right foot, these Norwegians intend to take your scalp early enough with their heavy sound. Once the play button is pushed, the creepy intro and the heavy old school riffing that follows kind of takes you back in the day. We're talking about Entombed-heavy sounding guitars n bass here. "Refuse To Rot" is their first full length re...

13/06/2018

United Kingdom’s Godthrymm, have unleashed upon the metal world, a devastating EP of doom that is sure to be the beginning of a long and prosperous career spreading misery from one end of the world to the other. In that is where the prosperity lay. “A Grand Reclamation” is certainly bound to be one of the best releases for doom metal in 2018. These...

06/06/2018

Austin, Texas’ Ignitor return with their sixth full length entitled “Haunted By Rock &amp; Roll” so prepare yourself 9 track odyssey into the depths of the heavy/power metal genre. Although these guys have been around since 2003, one listen and you’ll swear they’ve been around since the 80’s. Their music definitely gives a reverent nod to that time...

05/06/2018