Tag Belarus
I have to begin by saying this is not my usual cup of tea. Or maybe it is. I’m a more or less stereotypical raw black metal girlie, and this is very much not raw in the raw black metal… Continue Reading →
This album by Belarusian death grinders Grimentity has been out since February 2022, so quite why it has taken so long to hit the players of Ave Noctum is puzzling considering how bloody good it is too. Predominantly grindcore based… Continue Reading →
In Belarusian, the word ‘Ciemra’ simply means Darkness. An apt name for this relatively new Black Metal band from Minsk whose debut album will be released later this month on CD and LP by Avantgarde Music. Darkness is very much… Continue Reading →
Dodgy things may or may not be happening in Belarus, but I’ve found this is a go-to country when it comes to metal music. Here’s another one in Pa Vesh En, a black metal project with the values of emptiness,… Continue Reading →
Bands from Belarus have never failed me. Here’s another of the black metal kind. Judging by their previous release, nothingness and desolation is where they’re at. “Deathly ennui over the nothing” is how they describe it. Just the title “Irrigating… Continue Reading →
Five substantial tracks of blackened death metal is the offer here from Belarus’s Ljosazabojstwa. I know the band by virtue of their previous EP’s Sychodžańnie (2016) and Staražytnaje licha (2017), both of which are impressively grim and black. This latest… Continue Reading →
I’m soon to be moving house (not that you readers care) but with that move comes a dream of mine. Finally, I will have a music room! Somewhere to display all of my musical forages, and not only that somewhere… Continue Reading →
Bizarrely, avant-garde black metal meets New School Trap, or so the description goes. I had to look up Trap, and having done so I now understand it’s a form of hip hop. I didn’t know the band either, and it… Continue Reading →
This three piece from Minsk have released their third album of crushing sludgy doom on Aesthetic Death Records. Loping, lumbering riffs clamber over thunderous drums and rib rattling bass as Reido spin tales of despair and desolation. Just what is… Continue Reading →
Belarusian duo Essence Of Datum are the latest in a long line of progressive metal acts to release an album in 2019. They find themselves amongst the likes of Queensrÿche, Rendezvous Point, Ascend The Hollow, Mother Of Millions, Dream Theater… Continue Reading →
The opening track ‘…In The Ghostly Haze’ from this Belarusian band rolls into a bleak life like Skepticism meeting Nortt on a last frostbitten walk through the woods; crushingly downbeat, but like frost it forces open cracks you might not… Continue Reading →
Belarusian outfit Irreversible Mechanism first turned heads in 2014, snapped up by boutique label Blood Music within twelve hours of debut album “Infinite Fields” being quietly launched on Bandcamp. A quick round of PR and some cool looking physical releases… Continue Reading →