Tag Lithuania
A move to Hammerheart Records for Lithuanian Baltic Folk Metal band Romuvos feels like a fresh start for the band. Over their three previous albums they have been honing their own sound based around their ancestors ancient Baltic traditions, customs… Continue Reading →
This is the second album from this Lithuanian band, following “Illusions of Eternity” in 2017. They describe their black metal as “dissonant”. Well that’s one word for it. I was surprised to hear a dark industrial electronic beat to begin,… Continue Reading →
This may only last 25 minutes but having heard this Lithuanian band’s two previous, I had no doubt that this would be another journey of post metal intensity with many variations to keep us honest. Negation, lethargy, epiphany, alienation: I’m… Continue Reading →
This is a well-travelled disc. Stormgrey themselves hail from Lithuania, not exactly a hotbed of extremity looking at Metal Archives. The label are French and they posted it out to us in England. A month later it finally arrives with… Continue Reading →
If you don’t know whether to play in a hardcore, sludge or black metal style, the solution is simple: you play all three. That’s what Lithuanian band Erdve do. This is their second album release. The subject matter, which amounts… Continue Reading →
Extreme Metal, what does it mean? Well to me it generally means undefined, and often times dull. I’m so entrenched in genre policing that unless I can pinpoint something I generally find it annoying. Basically, even if it’s Technical Folk… Continue Reading →
Can’t say I know much about the Baltic countries in general or Lithuania in particular. I have never been there, nor met somebody from there, nor do I recall having ever come across a band from there. But I imagine… Continue Reading →
Plenty of gigs on in town yet again tonight, heavyweight thrash titans Exodus with Sodom and Death Angel having a Headbangers Ball as well as memories being invoked by Clawfinger. It’s off down the Holloway Road for us black clad… Continue Reading →
In spite of the name, Au-Dessus are from Lithuania. I had the pleasure of listening to their first album “End of Chapter” last year. That one was an atmospheric and intense work of post black metal. This work is a… Continue Reading →
Apparently vaitojimas means gibberish moaning. That certainly isn’t a way I’d describe this album from Lithuania’s Erdve. Its thickly laid on heaviness is more like an assault. Impressively, they manage to hold their anger together and deliver slabs of meaningful… Continue Reading →
Usually at this time of year the Ed gets all us monkeys to sort out a “Top 20 Of The Year” list. Most of the time it’s a piece of piss, there will be some A. absolutely outstanding releases from… Continue Reading →
Deep, reverberating sounds of a post black metal kind and a vocalist who sounds like he’s on his last legs … this is Devlsy from a sinister and depressive sounding place. As I got into “Corridors”, the first track of… Continue Reading →