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Profane Burial – My Plateau (Crime Records)

More than ten years on from their inception, Norwegian band Profane Burial come back with their second album. “My Plateau” is described as intense and extreme with a leaning to black metal. Featuring symphonic elements, this band’s brand of metal… Continue Reading →

Borknagar – Fall (Century Media)

Borknagar are unique, no-one sounds quite like them. Musically, vocally, songwriting, arrangement – put them all together and there’s only one band it could be – Borknagar. But their personal blend of Progressive Extreme Metal is no overnight sensation. “Fall”… Continue Reading →

A/Oratos – Ecclesia Gnostica (LADLO Productions)

If you are a fan of French band Griffon whose 3rd album ‘De Republica’ is due to drop any day now, boy have you got a treat in store for you even before you get to it. Vocalist Aharon has… Continue Reading →

Ershetu – Xibalba (Debemur Morti)

There are certain areas of history, culture and the world in general that I maintain are criminally underexplored in metal of any flavour: the weird and wonderful world of spiders, the unsettling astrophysics of black holes and other intergalactic terrors,… Continue Reading →

Jord – Tundra (Hammerheart Records)

Jord are a Swedish Atmospheric Black Metal band who started out as a one-man project back in 2020, but after two previous albums have expanded into a 3 piece, been picked up by Hammerheart and are really starting to define… Continue Reading →

Midgardsblot Festival – Borre, Vestfold, Norway 20/8/22

As I’ve mentioned previously, one of the nice things about this festival is that it is not just about the music, it is so much more. On the final day, I took the opportunity to explore the Midgard Vikingsenter a… Continue Reading →

Sarke – Allsighr (Soulseller)

If God is Seven! I am mildly surprised that Sarke have reached their seventh full length release – it seems like just the other day that I listened to Vorunah for the first time. Turns out that debut was released in 2009! Waaaaaahhhhh! This time… Continue Reading →

White Ward – Debemur Morti (Debemur Morti)

White Ward were one of the bands for whom the pandemic could not have come at a worse moment. Their absorbing last LP Love Exchange Failure, released in the autumn of 2019, fusing lounge jazz with black metal, had left… Continue Reading →

White Void – Anti (Nuclear Blast)

2020 was a difficult year for most people and given the time, musicians in particular had to find their own different ways to deal with it. Many were very active on social media, posting blogs, lockdown videos, acoustic tracks and… Continue Reading →

Mork – Katedralen (Peaceville)

If a lot of traditional Norwegian black metal is a mass of thorny bushes growing from the rich Norwegian loam, becoming tangled up and like a single mass, Mork are the ones who stand apart: Superficially the same but get… Continue Reading →

Veil Of Secrets – Dead Poetry (Crime Records)

This is an intriguing proposition from Norway, a new act featuring some old friends taking things in an unexpected direction. Vocally we have ex Tristania singer Vibeke Stene who is naturally associated with symphonic metal. With her we are joined… Continue Reading →

Mitochondrial Sun – Sju Pulsarer (Argonauta Records)

Back in February, Niklas Sundlin felt that the time was right to let some of his creative ideas which didn’t quite fit for Dark Tranquillity gain a life and identity of their own. ‘Mitochondrial Sun’, the self-titled debut album of… Continue Reading →

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