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Malokarpatan – Vertumnus Caesar (Invictus Productions)

This album is described as “an occult rock opera dimming the lines between first wave black metal, classic heavy metal and progressive rock”. “Vertumnus Caesar” is the group’s third album release in five years. The strange intro takes us back… Continue Reading →

Trespass – Wolf at the Door (From the Vaults)

The name will be known, I saw the band recently in Germany and they were well received. There is an infamous track that most people regard as their signature tune, but there are more days (not just “one of those… Continue Reading →

Enslaved – Heimdal (Nuclear Blast)

May 1993. Two young upstart Norwegian black metal bands share the limelight on a split release from Candlelight Records. Both subsequently follow very different musical ideologies and career paths, but grow to be equally influential and universally revered. Jumping forward… Continue Reading →

Soft Ffog – Soft Ffog (Is it Jazz? Records)

As Ave Noctum’s old git in residence and self-professed Thotch-head, when amongst the normal deliveries of satanic screams and unreadable band logos a hint of Prog arrives at the editor’s dungeon abode, and that’s just Prog, not Prog-Metal, it is… Continue Reading →

Tenebra – Moongazer (New Heavy Sounds)

Tenebra are a Four-piece psychedelic rock band who hail from Bologna and ply their musical trade with a heavy dose of 70’s hard rock and blues, giving their work the umbrella term ‘retro-rock/stoner’. Loaded with sounds similar to those from… Continue Reading →

Wij – Dziwidło (Heavy Medication Records)

As always, when I don’t know anything about a band, I like to start by taking a look at the album cover. It this case, it’s all black with drawings in thin white lines. Two centipedes are forming a circle… Continue Reading →

Solar Mantra – Away (Argonauta)

Crushing, heavy stoner which “delivers the perfect soundtrack for a road trip in the sun” is what’s offered here from Solar Mantra. It remains to be seen what is sunny about this work, but the artwork suggests that we’re in… Continue Reading →

Spirit Adrift – Enlightened in Eternity (Century Media)

So, 2020 has been, by pretty much all standards what we in the scientific community might term “crap”. However, it has brought with it a follow up album to the rather great record “Divided by Darkness”, by Spirit Adrift, which… Continue Reading →

Arabs In Aspic – Madness And Magic (Karisma)

Trondheim veterans Arabs In Aspic have been the standard bearers for the retro-rock and classic prog stylings in Norway for the past 15 or so years. With a big musical focus on making their sound and approach sound like an… Continue Reading →

Shaman Elephant – Wide Awake But Still Asleep (Karisma Records)

May 2020 has been quite a progressively influenced month for me on Ave Noctum. It all started with the unique melancholic progressive flavourings of Green Carnation, Thoughts Factory were next with traditional Progressive Metal, Horisont came at it next, chucking… Continue Reading →

Souls of Tide – Black Magic (Mighty Music)

Firstly, you must give props, platitudes and other hyperbolic praise for ANY band that decides to name their album ‘Black Magic’. It is so on the nose for anything even vaguely smelling of rock in any shape, way of form,… Continue Reading →

King Witch – Body of Light (Listenable)

There is something warming and exciting about the opening few chords of ‘Body of Light’. There is a feel of eastern mysticism and then the actual metal riffing begins. Boom, you are then drawn into a heavy metal trance with… Continue Reading →

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