Author Jonathan Butlin
Parisian doom devotees Northwinds proudly present this, their fifth full length studio album, complete with its typically beautiful album cover by Stefano Sugni. To briefly and dismissively label this band simply as `Doom’ however, does them a great injustice in… Continue Reading →
Chaos Echoes are an intriguing prospect; experimental, esoteric doom/death with members from brutallists Bloody Sign. It’s probably not a coincidence that the band’s name is the same as the very last Bloody Sign release… This band is, however, a completely… Continue Reading →
I must admit, it’s been a really long while since I’ve heard a new album with this sound. Sure, there are doom metal bands, and even sub-genres aplenty, but I’ve not heard anything this classic sounding for many years. To… Continue Reading →
Doom/death, when done well, can be truly crushing; a wall of dramatic, desolate despair, dripping with atmosphere (and a whole lot of other words beginning with `d’ no doubt). In rare cases, it can be an almost life-changing experience (like… Continue Reading →
To say that this album pulls no punches is a bit like saying `shooting yourself in the head isn’t very good for you’. To the uninitiated, this is the fourth raging opus from Spain’s very own thrash metal fanatics, Angelus… Continue Reading →
Some so-called `old school death metal’ is very self consciously archaic and primitive, desperately trying to achieve that retrogressive sound. Not so Obscure Infinity, who with their third album, have crafted a raging, crushing opus which absolutely screams `death metal’,… Continue Reading →
Some `retro’ style releases are more convincing than others; with some bands you get the impression that they missed the point of the original genre of yesteryear that they are trying to emulate. Not so with Gdansk-based Repulsor, who absolutely… Continue Reading →
`Scourge of the Formless Breed’ is the third full length album by Turin’s underground brutalists Septycal Gorge, and it is a pretty interesting proposition. Many bands of this style opt for simplistic, gruesome, splatter-gore lyrics and put all of their… Continue Reading →
Carcass – the legendary death metal band from Liverpool who need no introduction. Or do they? The band have undergone various mutations and shifts in their sound, and have almost always been right at the top of their game; from… Continue Reading →
If you dig deep enough amongst the swathes of generic, identikit black metal bands out there in the world, occasionally you come across a rare treat; a truly original band. These obscure, underground veterans from Northern Italy have been ploughing… Continue Reading →
For those of you with serious `underground’ credentials, the true diggers and delvers into the less well-known acts that are out there to be discovered, some of you few may be aware of King Fowley, a true underground legend in… Continue Reading →
As was so often repeated on the classic comedy series `Monty Python’s Flying Circus’, and now for something completely different… Diskord are certainly a unique prospect; for a start, a Norwegian extreme metal band that doesn’t play Black Metal (they… Continue Reading →