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A couple of years ago I reviewed a very decent album called “Entheogen” by an Australian progressive metal band called Mish. The leader of Mish went off and formed Hence Confetti, and this is their debut EP. The “emotional heavy… Continue Reading →
Scotland’s groove metal machine Dog Tired are here with their 5th release; ‘The Red Verse’. This is the follow up to the highly acclaimed ‘The Electric Abyss’ (2019) and to those familiar with the band, a sign of growing from… Continue Reading →
On paper, Chicagoan avantgarde sludge/post metal quartet Yakuza, (who lest we forget are not some johnny come lately outfit having been around for several iterations of the noise scene they were at the fulcrum of creating way back in 1999)… Continue Reading →
The last couple of Black Anvil albums had a mixed reception here, that’s not all that surprising and I think the comment that ‘There are too many disparate and conflicting elements” in regard to last one ‘As Was’ kind of… Continue Reading →
Unlike many of the scribes of Ave Noctum who are black hearted, black souled, black metal warriors, I, the humble author of this piece you are kind enough to be reading, am a bit of an old hippy and Thotch-head,… Continue Reading →
It’s been a few weeks of relative calm and peace in my world, that has been, up until this point, a year of real ups and downs across the board. Reviewing for this esteemed website, Ave Noctum, has, at times,… Continue Reading →
“Causa Sui” is this French band’s debut album. It took four years to make it. Ahasver, as well as being the name of the band, is the mythical immortal man. The only way to translate this in any way to… Continue Reading →
On the face of it, this album oozes eccentric humour and playfulness. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that this band is French and this country has a delightful record of eccentric bands: Akphaezya, Carnival in Coal, Edredo… Continue Reading →
I couldn’t have imagined that I’d ever be writing about a touring guitarist for Russell Watson or Aled Jones but that’s what John Bailey is. This man has many strings to his bow, as it were, with an interest in… Continue Reading →
I missed the initial release of this album in 2017 so as far as I’m concerned this is a new experience. Mish are from Australia and as a progressive metal band have shared the stage with sleepmakeswaves and We Lost… Continue Reading →
The term ‘Horndal Effect’ could have two definitions; for the business management nerds in attendance it relates to productivity unexpectedly rising when a business operates in survival mode due to the threat of closure, while for those in the metal… Continue Reading →
Kevel may, or may not be, named after the large cleat fitted to a ship used for securing ropes. That may not be the most ‘metal’ of band names, or maybe it is, but nobody should question their ability to… Continue Reading →