Danish/American vocalist Amalie Bruun stormed the metal scene with the self titled EP Myrkur in 2014. Coming from a indie music background and daring to use her classically trained voice in black metal, Bruun was rewarded with a shitstorm on the internet and was ferociously haunted by trolls (not the cool Scandinavian type of trolls). […]
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Carach Angren – album listening session
March 4th, 2017 Polly Maggoo – Tilburg (NL) Season Of Mist By Laetitia After having received an invite to come and listen to the upcoming Carach Angren record, called Dance and Laugh Amongst The Rotten (release date June 16th) yours truly made her way to the Dutch town of Tilburg, where the venue 013 also […]
Saille – Gnosis
By Wouter B. Presumably to taunt Zeus, Prometheus brought fire (back) to humankind. Likewise, presumably to taunt god, the Snake tempted Eve to consume the apple from the divine tree of knowledge of good and Evil. On the 13th day, Saille shall release another wicked creation, Gnosis. And I saw that it was good. Presumably […]
Winterfylleth – The Dark Hereafter
Although summer is not dying any time soon, with 30+ degrees C in the middle of September, autumn is being heralded by it’s proverbial namesake and atmospheric/black metal entourage Winterfylleth. I for one am definitely waiting for less sun, less heat and some (more!) of The Dark Hereafter.. Read all!
Bloody Hammers – Lovely Sort of Death
Bloody Hammers are a fantastic little duo, hailing from North Carolina, USA. I got to know them through their self-titled debut album from 2012, which was a fantastic release that managed to combine their own mixture of Hard Rock, Stoner and Doom, into one big unsophisticated yet great experience. Since then, a ton of weed […]
Numenorean – Home
There are these marvellous moments in a reviewers existence, where you dig up a gem in between the noise and a record of a previously unknown band becomes a serious contender for the year lists (and it’s July already, so why not start with a draft of that ;)). This was the case with the […]
Be’lakor – Vessels
Summer 2012, an afternoon in August. Upon wandering around between better known bands, I heard the last three songs of by then to me unknown Be’lakor. Amidst the Summerbreezian fields tortured by a blazing sun, I was captured and gripped by their mix of progressive yet groovy death metal. Tempo shifts, guitar solos, melodies: everything […]
Feature: The Autist
Fans of symphonic/female fronted metal, pay attention! From Portugal hails the band The Autist, who’ve recently released the first single ‘Pandora’s Curse‘ from their upcoming album The Coldest Sun (out in 2017)! The track does not only boast a high quality that you rarely see in first releases of young bands, but it also features […]
Rotten Sound – Abuse to Suffer
Rotten Sound is back and delivers another piece of aggressive grindcore. It has been five years and two days since the release of their previous full-length, Cursed. So it’s great to finally hear from our Finnish grinders again, even though they also released an EP in 2013, Species at War, which is still 3 years […]
Destroyer 666 – Wildfire
Destroyer 666 are usually an easy case in the world Metal scene, since their Thrash-Black Metal have always appealed to most people and the Aussies-by-origin have nothing real to prove to anyone nowdays, having reached to the point in a bands’ life where all of their previous releases have formed a very strong fan base […]