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It’s been quite a while since I locked horns with Hatesphere. Once one of my favourite bands, the high point for me was their 2005 album “The Sickness Within”. This latest album, which is their 11th full release, actually has… Continue Reading →
The album title and, for those with a GCSE in Latin, the band title will give you the clues here. This is a renowned band in dark metal circles, having been plying its trade for almost 30 years. “How to… Continue Reading →
After reviewing last year’s EP, I was more than happy to take a listen to the new album and I’m glad to say it doesn’t disappoint. As it’s taken 25 years since Mordred last released an album, they decided not… Continue Reading →
The first thing I read about this album is that the band defined Queensryche’s 1988 album “Operation: Mindcrime” as the thematic inspiration for it. The second was that Thirteenth Sign are a melodic death / thrash band, with possible appeal… Continue Reading →
I’m actually surprised I was never more of a Mordred fan in my youth. It probably has more to do with only ever seeing their albums once or twice in ZA and never getting a chance to actively listening to… Continue Reading →
In 2015 Canadian Dark Power Metallers Borealis released “Purgatory”, an album that elevated the band onto a new higher level, booking their place as one of the top bands in their genre and (to a much less worldly important level)… Continue Reading →
Sometimes you listen to a band, which sounds uncannily like another one that you know well. This is the case here. I’d not heard of Hourswill, whose second album this is, but for me there is a stunning resemblance in… Continue Reading →
Thanks to considerable publicity, I have read a lot about modern metal band Brutai and was surprised to learn that this is their debut album. I was particularly interested in this release as they are due to play at ProgPower… Continue Reading →
Loch Vostok blew me away with their previous album “V: The Doctrine Decoded” (2012). Their other albums are pretty good too. The latest one “From These Waters” is self-proclaimed as grittier than the others, and I’d go along with that…. Continue Reading →
Thanks to UK Metallers Xerath’s consistent live work it appears that I am one of the few Ave Noctum scribes to be unfamiliar with the band. So why, therefore does it fall upon me to review their imaginatively titled… Continue Reading →
I’ve always had trouble getting to grips with Anubis Gate. Why I should need to “get to grips” with a band is of course a moot point. In spite of interviewing their highly articulate multi-instrumentalist Kim Oleson and seeing them… Continue Reading →
Inbreeding Rednecks sound as though they ought to come from Arkansas, but in fact they’re a group of experienced musicians from Denmark with a passion for old school death metal. This, then, is what we get in copious quantities. Grim… Continue Reading →