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Author Gizmo

Being old and creaky (I was a teenager during the NWOBHM) I have no time for people who ' excuse ' their love of metal by saying it's so cheesy, or so ironic. I've taken shit from mainstream types for the music I love for 35 years or so. Stand up and be proud of it with no concessions to what might be hip; the best music and the best fans in the world are within the metal family.

Hadit – Metaphysical Engines Approaching The Event Horizon (I, Voidhanger)

I just picked this off the lists, not knowing the name, because of ‘cosmic’ ‘Lovecraft’ and ‘black/death’ plonked in the description if I’m honest. No previous knowledge of these Italians, but being let down too many times by other death… Continue Reading →

Gost – Prophecy (Metal Blade)

To say I was rather taken with my introduction to one-man project Gost with Possessor is putting it mildly. And the follow up Malediction was equally impressive; James Lollar had managed to craft a unique being from the cloth of… Continue Reading →

Byzantium – A Seamless Robe (Repose Records)

Well here’s something I’ve never had before; a cassette! Well Ok, I get around half a dozen a month for myself due to an addiction to raw black metal and dungeon synth but it’s the first review cassette I’ve had…. Continue Reading →

Vaina – Unio Mystica (Aesthetic Death)

I was quite taken with the sophomore album by Finnish black metal weirdos Vaina. Their ability to blend so many different genres into their style, seamlessly, was quite remarkable and took me back to the mid-90s when bands like Arcturus… Continue Reading →

Vircolac – Veneration (Sepulchral Voice)

I think it’s fair to say that Ireland’s death metal dark horses, or dark werewolves even, Vircolac take their time in releasing music. This is their second full length, after 2019’s dark but insightful ‘Masque’. They play death metal that… Continue Reading →

Druadan Forest – Dismal Spells Part II -The Night Circus (Werewolf Records)

V-Khaos, the entity behind dozens of projects not least Dim Lights, returns to the forests of his birth, Druadan, and the world of dungeon synth after their cosmic journey through ‘Portals’. So I guess as the lurker on the threshold… Continue Reading →

Lustmord – Much Unseen Is Also Here (Pelagic Records)

Ah. A precious night arrives as here we have the absolute legendary entity that is Lustmord arriving to prove that only true vision and genius can do dark ambient so well. Brian Williams, the Welsh maestro behind this name, returns… Continue Reading →

Heretic – Filthy Hymns For Sleazy Demons (Van Records)

Heretic. One of those names that has so many entries in Metal Archives you get dizzy, but as this lot of Dutch degenerates have been trailing through the sleazy much since the late nineties they have a far better shout… Continue Reading →

Hauntologist – Hollow (No Solace)

Debut album time, but side project time too. This time by Darkside (Mgla) and The Fall (Mgla live, Owls Woods Graves) and guess what? I’m practically alone amongst my black metal aficionados by not being a Mgla fan, for a… Continue Reading →

Black Eucharist – Inn Of The Vaticide (Godz Ov War)

Bit late turning this in, but it was actually released mid 2023 it seems but this is the CD version so, hey, we’re here. Debut album, but rising out of (via a simply name change Black Ejaculate whose ‘Cum soaked… Continue Reading →

Gizmo’s 2023 Ep’s, Demos and Dungeons

  I spent a great deal of 2023 falling deeper and deeper into distros, fledgling projects and delightfully reacquainting myself with the dizzying world that is dungeon synth. As EPs and demos are excluded from Ave Noctum’s end of year… Continue Reading →

Demoncy – Diabolica Blasphemiae (Hell’s Headbangers)

After eight years smouldering, 2023 saw a re-stoking the infernal fires from US thirty plus year veterans of the black metal world Demoncy. They released an album this year and now this EP sneaks in at the end. So we… Continue Reading →

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