Tag Fallen Temple
Let’s not beat about the bush here. When your album title sounds this much it should already be a Darkthrone album, it’s safe to say you’re wearing your influences on your suitably grim sleeve. To delve further into the known… Continue Reading →
Do you like your black metal polished and symphonic with lots of keyboards and tunes you can sing along to in the car? If so, I suggest you look elsewhere as Finland’s Vonülfsrëich deliver nasty, gnarly low fi black metal… Continue Reading →
The delightfully entitled Hurricane Hellfukker is the man essentially behind German act Illum Adora (also of Zarathustra) and has been active under that name since 2011. He has seen collaborators come and go through a couple of albums, splits EP’s… Continue Reading →
Since 2003 a sickening plague has been sweeping across Europe, a plague hailing from Poznan in Poland. And that pestilential entity is heathen Black Metal horde Mordhell, who towards the end of last year shat out their fourth full length… Continue Reading →
It might be time to slow down but Burial Choir have actually worked quite quickly following up last album ‘The Eucharist Of Martyrs’ in less than a year. It arrives here at the perfect time, it’s cold and a period… Continue Reading →
A debut EP release from Medellin in Colombia. ‘Assault to the Coffin’ is Death Metal quartet Graveyard Wind’s first foray into the savage world of both horror and existentialism! Featuring four tracks and opening with mournful gusty tones and strong… Continue Reading →
All roads lead to black metal. Quite apart from the packaging, I knew this already, having reviewed this Indonesian band’s 2020 EP “Thy Infernal”. A raw, old school sound greets us. The guitar riff is solitary and uncompromising. Slowing down… Continue Reading →
Must be a full-moon. We just recovered from a savage mauling by Australian band Werewolves and now we have more lycanthropic rage from Columbus Ohio. Invultation is apparently the practice of making and using effigies of people for magical purposes… Continue Reading →
I may be nearing a half century but inside there is still the teenager that was filled with glee when finding pics of King Diamond in Metal Forces magazine and reading the blasphemous over the top lyrics of Venom and… Continue Reading →
The world of heavy metal, and in this case Doom, is truly an international beast. From what many consider the formative days of Black Sabbath over half a century ago (I’ll let wiser heads than mine such as Andrew O’Neill… Continue Reading →
Time to lay the dead to rest and what better way to do it than via the medium of Finnish Funeral Doom? Doing the graveside duties here we have a true apostle of the scene, Mikko Lehto whose name should… Continue Reading →
There has been a wealth of metal acts over the years with the moniker of Apostasy but it’s fair to say that this Chilean version is likely the most well-known though there are active Swedish and US versions with the… Continue Reading →