Tag Sweden
I didn’t know a lot about Six Foot Six, but here’s the low down on what I’ve been able to find out: this is their third album, and guitarist and vocalist Kristoffer Gobel was briefly the vocalist for Falcolner. He’s… Continue Reading →
Just over 20 years since Swedish Power Metal mainstays Axenstar released their impressive debut “Perpetual Twilight” the band has racked up a number of equally attention-grabbing and unapologetically bombastic Metal albums, arriving in 2023 with their eighth offering (if only… Continue Reading →
Rather than worry their band name sounds like some Ikea equivalent of a branded pack of dehydrated gravy granules, Sweden’s ORO, have pretensions above a particularly crude segue of an opening sentence attempting to breath life into a review of… Continue Reading →
Sweden meets York on this debut album from Helga. “Wrapped in Mist” passes through the lands of Swedish folk and progressive metal, with post-rock, black metal, pop and some cellos and violins thrown in. A haunting female voice precedes a… Continue Reading →
Fantasy fiction is among the numerous cliches of black metal and has led to a surge in its popularity and with groups like Stormkeep helping form a whole movement of bands obsessed with the writings of Tolkien, Moorcock and other… Continue Reading →
Live albums always divide opinion with the naysayers questioning the need for a rehash of songs already available on studio albums whereas proponents cite a live album as a record of a band’s zeitgeist, a testament to where a band… Continue Reading →
Formed 4 years ago, when the members were still teens… Actually they are still teens and playing a style of music made popular 2 decades before their births. and I’m happy to admit, I’m a fan! Their style of thrash… Continue Reading →
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 →
When Swedish Epic Heavy/Doom Metal band Sorcerer reformed for 2015’s “In The Shadow Of The Inverted Cross” it was to all intents and purposes a new band with a new start, ready to make their own mark on the modern… Continue Reading →
The ciiiiiiircle of Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife – to paraphrase and bastardise Reg Dwight. Well in reality it is the circle of death – Death Metal more specifically. The internet is awash with new Old School Death Metal bands, teens and twenty summats who have picked up an HM-2 pedal on Ebay and… Continue Reading →
Back in 1849, French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr wrote “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” and since then this, and its English translation “the more things change, the more they stay the same”, have been widely quoted and… Continue Reading →
If, for some reason, you decided to dive back in time through some of my older reviews, and heaven knows why you would, you’d have seen me use phrases like “a new wave of retro rock” and variations on that… Continue Reading →