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Firstly I love the album artwork adorning this German bands seventh album, who I was completely unfamiliar with until now. The cover sums up the epic styling that Minas Morgul have in every one of their songs, capturing an emotive… Continue Reading →
I’m always in favour of artists using their surroundings so the fact that Rauhnåcht, a solo project from Austria with various session musicians to support him, has this epithet is welcome. The “gipfel” of the title normally means the mountain… Continue Reading →
I remember seeing these guys a long time ago at the Garage in Islington, and helping to jump-start their bus after the show as the battery had died. Really nice chaps they are too. But I digress. This is their… Continue Reading →
This debut album from Germany’s Tranquillizer gets off to a lively start. The greeting is a healthy dose of boisterous melodic blackened death metal. It’s perhaps a contradiction to describe black metal as “jolly” but “Eine Andere Welt” (An Another… Continue Reading →
This release has been designated as an EP but clocks in at 48 minutes and is the first release by this German band in three years. Decked out in red and black paint for their promo shots they have crafted… Continue Reading →
Croatian band Gothaurs Wrath are accredited as a black metal band. Having listened to their second full album “War for Heaven”, I’d suggest that they’ve moved on considerably from this description. Words I would use to describe this album are… Continue Reading →
I’d not heard of Harasai before. The strange thing was that when I listened to “PsychoticKingdom” it was as if I had. My initial impression of this band from Germany was of a fusion between Dark Tranquillity, In Flames and… Continue Reading →
Despite what I wrongly thought the Swiss have actually had their fair share of revolutions and had a short but humdinger of one in 1847 which led to the country becoming a federal state. Anyway before I start doing more… Continue Reading →