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Green Lung, Saturday Night Satan – Mylos Club, Thessaloniki, 22.3.2024

Five years had already passed since Green Lung’s last and first visit to Thessaloniki, back when the band was simply promising. Since then, a considerable amount of time had gone by, marked by heavy contracts with record labels and companies,… Continue Reading →

Dool – The Shape Of Fluidity (Prophecy)

Love it or loathe it but genre definition is one of those things us music writers seem unable to not dissect and in the case of Dutch band Dool it still makes me tut when I open go to site… Continue Reading →

Verikalpa – Tuomio (Scarlet)

Finnish Extreme Folk Metal band Verikalpa’s current studio output is bordering on prolific, dishing out quality albums every other year since 2018. With a stable line-up in place now for the last three, this talented six-piece are steadily focusing and… Continue Reading →

Heavy Temple – Garden of Heathens (Magnetic Eye Records)

Heavy Temple is a band that I’ve been hoping to see live for quite some time now, but have yet to do so. As well as really enjoying their prior releases (see Ave Noctum passim), vocalist High Priestess Nighthawk has… Continue Reading →

Thief – Bleed, Memory (Prophecy)

This album explores memory for its theme. Dementia being a terrifying thief of personality and experience that is affecting more and more of our aging population in the West. It is somewhat ironic that I had forgotten, until I searched… Continue Reading →

My Dying Bride – A Mortal Binding (Nuclear Blast)

34 years and 15 albums on, and I’m still enjoying these guys as much as when I first heard them 30 years ago. The 7 songs complete the just shy of an hour-long album, and are exactly what you’d expect,… Continue Reading →

Concrete Age – Motherland (Soundage Productions)

Ethnic-Thrash outfit Concrete Age hail from the Stavropol Krai region of the North Caucasus, an area rich in culture, tradition and history. This strip of land situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea has played host to empires… Continue Reading →

Attacker – The God Particle (Cruz Del Sur)

This US band are currently celebrating their 40th Anniversary, whilst there was a notable gap in the 90’s, the band came back with full force. Blimey, it’s been 16 years since I saw them live in Germany when I checked!… Continue Reading →

Severoth – By The Way Of Light (Avantgarde)

It is my principle to never pass on anything which contains at least 10 seconds of wall of sound. I go gogo and gaga and agog and amok for that stuff. I had a half mind to spare you this… Continue Reading →

Replicant – Infinite Mortality (Transcending Obscurity)

Formed in 2014 New Jersey based Tech/ Avant-Garde Death Metallers Replicant have gently bubbled along. The name is familiar but I have to confess this is my first delving into their discography. However, being the Brutal Death nerd I am,… Continue Reading →

Achelous – Tower of High Sorcery (No Remorse Records)

I am a geek. This will not come as a surprise to you if you are reading a review on a heavy music website; it’s pretty much par for the course for those of us who have decided to tread… Continue Reading →

Tomorrow’s Rain – Ovdan (AOP Records)

‘Hollow’ (2020) was an impressive debut album for Israeli band Tomorrow’s Rain who had previously been around as Moonskin. Within the realms of atmospheric doom, they had strong song-craft but got quite a bit of attention due to a large… Continue Reading →

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